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But at a science fiction convention, this is a smell. Person1: Hi, I believe men can give birth. ThisConference: Unacceptable. Person2: Hi, I wrote a scifi n

But at a science fiction convention, this is a smell. Person1: Hi, I believe men can give birth. ThisConference: Unacceptable. Person2: Hi, I wrote a scifi novel about a fantastical world where men can give birth. ThisConference: ??? At best the rule implicitly constrains its writers in a way that is at odds with the ethos of the genre under discussion. It's not a left/right thing, it's just bizarre form of problem-creation. Like those devs who publish their shit to github then write blogs about why they ignore pull requests. On a related note-- when I was little there was this dude who had a toy store and hated kids. In all three cases, I was thoroughly entertained by hearing the complaints from these people about the problems they created. NB: please don't respond to this comment right away. I'm about to order a pizza, and I have HN hooked up to a raspberry-pi phone I built where the notifications for responses cause the VOIP calls to drop out.

surgical_fire 3y ago
I'm not inserted into their niche hobby to evaluate. It wouldn't surprise me if other sci fi conventions leaned really progressive, and perhaps stories that appeal to the demographic of the "based" convention are smothered in such places. (Writing "based" convention made me sort of cringe). I mean, let's not pretend that the progressive crowd is any less exclusive in what they allow in their spaces. It's called a "cultural war" for a reason. Honestly, this is almost a non-story. People that lean conservative made sci-fi convention that appeal to their own demographic, and apparently people made enough of a fuss about John Carmack showing up there that he felt the need to issue a statement about it. This is all really tiresome, and the main reason why I at some point really stopped caring about either side viewpoints. The things that interest me are orthogonal to their interests.

surgical_fire 3y ago

I'm not inserted into their niche hobby to evaluate. It wouldn't surprise me if other sci fi conventions leaned really progressive, and perhaps stories that appeal to the demographic of the "based" convention are smothered in such places. (Writing "based" convention made me sort of cringe). I mean, let's not pretend that the progressive crowd is any less exclusive in what they allow in their spaces. It's called a "cultural war" for a reason. Honestly, this is almost a non-story. People that lean conservative made sci-fi convention that appeal to their own demographic, and apparently people made enough of a fuss about John Carmack showing up there that he felt the need to issue a statement about it. This is all really tiresome, and the main reason why I at some point really stopped caring about either side viewpoints. The things that interest me are orthogonal to their interests.