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So I was thinking about maybe going to Readercon next year, if it turned out that the incoming funds gave me enough leeway to fly to Boston. People had told me it was awesome.
After this?
Nope. Definitely not conventioneering. My handful of experiences with Organised Fandom En Masse in the past have proved tremendously alienating. I've no intention of coupling that with a convention whose managing board can't even be arsed to explain why it isn't following its own stated policies on harrassment. (Zero-tolerance policies have their own problems, but a two-year ban isn't even a slap on the wrist. And zero-tolerance is the policy they have. Retroactive rewriting is not good.)
Which is sad, because flights to Boston are cheap, relatively speaking, and so many lovely people who I'd like to see live in the Americas and get together for conventions.
Maybe there should be an alternate party. In protest.
After this?
Nope. Definitely not conventioneering. My handful of experiences with Organised Fandom En Masse in the past have proved tremendously alienating. I've no intention of coupling that with a convention whose managing board can't even be arsed to explain why it isn't following its own stated policies on harrassment. (Zero-tolerance policies have their own problems, but a two-year ban isn't even a slap on the wrist. And zero-tolerance is the policy they have. Retroactive rewriting is not good.)
Which is sad, because flights to Boston are cheap, relatively speaking, and so many lovely people who I'd like to see live in the Americas and get together for conventions.
Maybe there should be an alternate party. In protest.
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:10 am (UTC)In all likelihood, he's just learned to pick more vulnerable, less well-known and less assertive victims.
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:16 am (UTC)The only event I have ever organised where more than three people turned up was an academic talk, so I'm easy. Book roundtable!
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:31 am (UTC)Hmm. July would work better probably, and you'd have the advantage of being able to schedule the bookroundtable around the time of Readercon - either directly opposite, or partially overlapping.
But should see who else is interested...
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:46 am (UTC)And a train?
I'll put out a call for interest when I get back from Greece. I think by then most people who are attached to Readercon will have decided how they're going to react by then.
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:59 am (UTC)Gahhh.
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Date: 2012-07-28 02:03 am (UTC)The people who have sunk time and energy into making the con a good place? Have just been horribly betrayed.
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Date: 2012-07-28 02:18 am (UTC)rosefox.livejournal.com/1763288.html
If this was "put on the agenda wiki" a week ago and this is the response just now....yeah. (And the baord's response is CLEARLY only because glvalentine made public the decision when they told her, and people were really upset about it, anyway. Otherwise it might just have kept on being on the agenda wiki....forever!) I mean, I really can understand someone not wanting to just walk away from their baby, but....yeah.
(Also I just think there's a big difference between....'where people treat one another with respect and courtesy' and 'appropriate consequences for repeated harassment.' I don't know.)
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:00 pm (UTC)Personally? I think substantiated reports of harassment merit a five-year ban in the first instance, a ten-year ban in the second, and a lifetime ban in the third. That lets a 20-year-old Nice Guy learn better by the time he's 35. But shit, Readercon, that's not how you wrote your policy.
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:33 am (UTC)Over on the DW side, we're mooting the idea of having a protest party instead of going to Readercon... (I did so want to go, since I'd heard nothing but reasonably good things until now.)
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Date: 2012-07-28 05:05 am (UTC)God. I don't want to do that tired cynical "Oh, I'm not shocked" thing, but I'm sort of appalled at how unsurprised I am. BNF (who's not even all that fucking B from where I'm standing) does something and gets a slap on the wrist because, sheesh, it was just a misunderstanding, girls! It's so...typical of fandom. There are already people wailing that those who don't like this are lacking in compassion because, gee, you gotta give people a chance to grow and improve themselves and get better!
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Date: 2012-07-28 01:05 pm (UTC)But fuck. I'm just pissed that once again, women get thrown to the wolves. I was thinking hopefully about going to Readercon this coming year.
Sigh. Maybe I will just have to visit Texas instead. :P