Oh for fuck's sake.

[rmd]

I'd always meant to get around to finally making it to a Readercon. But fuck that noise unless the board seriously unfucks this situation

ETA: I've never been higher in a con hierarchy than regular staff, but I'm wondering if it might be useful or at least amusing to try and organize a feminist-friend con scheduled against Readercon next year.

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[gingicat]

Or at least a con scheduled during the summer that actually DOES have a zero-tolerance policy.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think that scheduling it directly across from Readercon would be a much better statement than merely having a con at all.

Not just "fuck this", but "fuck you".

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Remember, it's not the con itself, it's the people who wrote the policy and are charged with upholding the policy and failed in their duty. And from what I understand several of them have already resigned over this.

Perhaps the thing to do is to put people on the BoD with integrity.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Yep. That would fall under the category of "unfucking the situation".

Hopefully, this will, in fact, get fixed in a way that makes readercon a better con, overall.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm not awake yet ths morning, I wrote all of that sort of backwards.

Perhaps they should put people WITH INTEGRITY on the BoD in the future. Not biased, "Oh he's my friend, (A BNF, A SMOF)we can't do that to him." people.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Their zero-tolerance policy is in fact part of the problem. I have no interest in any con I attend adopting one. Mandatory sentencing puts all parties in a bad position.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yeah.