Another suggestion: The Society for Fantastical Poetry Appreciation. It would certainly address the confusion over whether it's a professional organization
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If we do incorporate in California, the Science Fiction Poetry Association is unlikely to be taken, but we'll share an acronym with probably about every tenth organization out of San Francisco (San Francisco Paralegal Association, San Francisco Psychological Association, San Francisco Paramedics Association, San Francisco Pool Association, maybe even San Francisco Poets Association), not to mention the mighty Southern Forest Products Association and not a few groups in South Florida.
If that's true (that we might not be able to use the name anyway) then that probably ought to be disseminated more widely. But not till after Deb gets back. ;-)
It worries me that I'm seeing such wide support for ASP here and such a preponderance of support for either not changing the name or not changing the acronym over at SFPAnet. Seems like a real break between the two places.
It's not the only break, or sign of a break, between the two places. The real question to me is whether that break is so big that the other place isn't worth my time.
Well, yeah. But I would have thought *this* point was simply about opinion of a tactic, not about flaming or personal attacking.
ETA: I realize that was possibly unclear. I mean, so much of the difference in the two places seems to be about who's perceived as attacked or excluding vs. who's reacting defensively or reacting to feeling excluded. I had hoped this one point would at least show common ground, with some for, some against, and hopefully similar proportions of each. But it doesn't seem to be working out that way.
Someone made an interesting point about one problem with ASP: the inevitability of jokes about ASP -kicking, etc.
But it seems to me that the whatever-you-call-it association doesn't spend a lot of time in a schoolyard. I mean, I'd worry about giving a kid a name that was easy to make fun of, but are there really many people with any inclination to make fun of a poetry organization? I can think of many very much less boring things to do (like write or read poetry.)
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If that's true (that we might not be able to use the name anyway) then that probably ought to be disseminated more widely. But not till after Deb gets back. ;-)
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The real question to me is whether that break is so big that the other place isn't worth my time.
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ETA: I realize that was possibly unclear. I mean, so much of the difference in the two places seems to be about who's perceived as attacked or excluding vs. who's reacting defensively or reacting to feeling excluded. I had hoped this one point would at least show common ground, with some for, some against, and hopefully similar proportions of each. But it doesn't seem to be working out that way.
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But it seems to me that the whatever-you-call-it association doesn't spend a lot of time in a schoolyard. I mean, I'd worry about giving a kid a name that was easy to make fun of, but are there really many people with any inclination to make fun of a poetry organization? I can think of many very much less boring things to do (like write or read poetry.)
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