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Date: 2012-08-01 12:18 pm (UTC)And the small, relatively new San Francisco Bay Area FOGcon. We hope.
Run by people of all genders (predominantly women) ranging in age from 30s to 60s -- we're trying to get some younger people in, too. We're also trying for more diversity on the concom. We make real efforts for diversity in Honored Guests, too, and on panels. Strong anti-harassment policy. Very strong policy in favor of social justice, feminism, and QUILTBAG rights. Focused on books, and mostly run by people who write.
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Date: 2012-08-01 09:38 pm (UTC)(I'm not a con-goer, so I don't have anything constructive to add. Although, as someone who reads a lot and lived in Boston (Cambridge) without a car for years, I always discounted Readercon for its inaccessible location first, and its snobbish bullshit second.)
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Date: 2012-08-06 01:22 am (UTC)(Caveat: I'm far, far away, have never been, and only learned of that faux pas while following the current debacle.)
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Date: 2012-08-01 03:28 pm (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-08-01 04:39 am (UTC)I mean, "it looks exactly the same, minus one jerk" seems a reasonable answer but presumably not what you're looking for.
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Date: 2012-08-01 05:12 am (UTC)Ever tried to pay attention to, never mind actually be on, a panel while watching over your shoulder for your harasser to turn up again?
It's only orthoganal if you're not the target, or in the target demographic. If you are it is, from moment to moment, somewhere on the continuum from noticeable undertow to central to all-encompassing.
I will be literal and say that it would look like a science fiction convention, only with all rather than some of the people looking and acting the way people look and act when we know it is safe for us to relax.
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Date: 2012-08-01 01:52 pm (UTC)What astounds me about this whole Readercon fiasco (and similar con-nish tales related in the light of these events) is that nowhere do I find expectation or comments that (a) criminal investigations or charges get levied against people who commit crimes in the context of these kinds of events, or (b) that civil or criminal actions aren't being brought against not only the con organisations themselves, but also the hotels and civic governments that host these events.
If someone misbehaves at a large sporting event (like for example the chucklehead(s) at the recent ballgame I attended who tossed a not-yet-empty plastic beer cup over the fifth-deck railing), they're firmly and immediately ejected, and handed over to the local security staff and then the police.
It frankly boggles my mind that people who systematically harass others at conventions, or who wander any inch of themselves outside the clearly set out safety policies put in place, aren't firmly and immediately ejected from the premises, and handed over to the local security staff and then the police.
By not doing so, I would think that the Readercon organization is clearly opening themselves up to legal action. I would expect the venue and/or local civic government to think seriously about giving Readercon another license to hold their event in the near future. Or first insist they take steps to indemnify themselves further against risk (such as insisting the convention hold more, and prove holding, of private insurance against such risk).
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Date: 2012-08-01 07:54 pm (UTC)Yes, sometimes it boggles my mind that men who systematically harass women aren't arrested. But that's the same part of my mind that can still sometimes be boggled by continued structural racism or by young-earth creationists. "How can you think that?" doesn't change the fact that a lot of people do think that, for certain values of "that," one of them being that sexual harassment is trivial.
There are sports teams that strongly want to avoid fighting in the stands, and instruct their security staff accordingly. Hence the thrown beer incident you describe. There are others that will simply tell people "don't sit in X part of the stadium if you have a child with you," or that don't try to prevent violence in the stands, only reporting of that violence.
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Date: 2012-08-01 04:13 pm (UTC)Which might itself have improved the harassment response.
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Date: 2012-08-02 07:17 am (UTC)Boards confuse me. I kind of understand concoms now that I've done a little work on one, and there's usually overlap with the Board... but I still don't really understand how someone ends up on the Board. Or what the Board's purpose for existence is during an average non-fail year.
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Date: 2012-08-02 07:22 am (UTC)In any case, it's not just the harassment policy and its enforcement that needs addressing.
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