The peeves were really not too happy
It's been linked everywhere and I don't feel like giving it hits but there was a lengthy post about Worldcon which amongst other gripes was 'OMG, Old People!'
As one of those greying beings who was flitting about the ExCel Centre -
- And whose first ever Worldcon it happened to be -
- Was, really, not best pleased.
It seemed to me, apart from the general ageism, to be making a dubious case that everybody over a certain age was a Benighted Dinosaur, and that (presumably therefore) everybody under a certain age was an Enlightened Being.
To which I pound my ebony walking stick on the floor, flourish my ear-trumpet, and set about me with an antimacassar set on stun.
I think we have sufficient evidence that age is not an identifying characteristic for racist, misogynist, homophobic, ableist (etc) trolls, so the idea that This Generation is Oh So Much Better than that older one over there is not really sustainable (particularly once you put ageism into that mix, no?).
While I concede that there are people who have been on the sff scene for a long time who could go up against the Bourbon Dynasty in a Learned Nothing and Forgotten Nothing Face-Off -
- am less than in any kind of sympathy with the Younger Person Who No It All and doesn't think that there is anything for them to learn. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2142751.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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