Arisia - Monday and beyond

[emily_goddess]

Monday

Dragged myself out of bed early to catch The Myth Of Fannish Tolerance. The panel was meant to discuss stuff like RaceFail, wherein the supposedly liberal/tolerant fandom community resists engaging with more advanced issues around race, orientation, gender, etc. But there was also some discussion from the audience about how people who are

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[childofmetis]

Omnian pamphlets would be brilliant.

I know Dragon*Con has sobriety meetings around 10 p.m.; I think that would be a great idea at Arisia.

[emily_goddess]

I know Dragon*Con has sobriety meetings around 10 p.m.

Ooh, that's good to know. I'll do some research.

[childofmetis]

It's under Friends of Bill W., I believe.

[emily_goddess]

Ah, so probably 12-step, then.

[fredericks]

I think Myth of Fannish Tolerance had the potential to be my favorite panel topic of Con, simply because it's a great thing to discuss when we're all gathered together to geek out. I've noticed a tendency of a number of folks at Con to automatically assume everyone believes what s/he believes and everything is rainbows and unicorns and butterflies. Less so at Arisia, where the focus tends to be on advocating social consciousness, but overall the hivemind is rather idealistic.

Someone, brought up the point that we need not be tolerant of intolerance, and that's absolutely true - but on the other hand, there's a tendency on the part of some liberals (especially religious minorities like Pagans and Atheists, both heavily represented at Arisia) to get defensive around Christians in general, as if the mere act of identifying oneself as Christian was as good as saying "I'm a homophobic bigot".Funny enough, I recall someone saying we shouldn't tolerate *tolerance*. As in, we shouldn't *have* to feel moved to understand where someone else