Vagueposting

[kevin_standlee]

I'm about ready to conclude that all SF/F genre events should be renamed "Convention" (all of them; that is, none of them should have individual names), all programming should be labeled "Program Item," and that every single person participating should be listed as "Person," lest anyone take offense from anything at all.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry; you're better off not knowing.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

Or else have just one convention for all the people who are offended by everything. Then they can yell at each other.

[kevin_standlee]

There are times when I think they only apology some people would accept for me using a deprecated in-joke jargon term would me for me to literally burn down my house with me inside it, and even then they'd want to salt the ashes. At least when I've accidentally misgendered someone and then apologized for it without making a huge fuss about it, I'm generally taken to be acting in good faith.

[lindadee]

I am so sorry. I did not mean to start another flame war.

[kevin_standlee]

It could have been worse. You could have proposed legislating the typeface or color of membership badges.

[billroper]

Oh, that. (Assuming that I know what the problem is from other context.)

I'm sorry. *thud* *thud* *thud*

[a_cubed]

I've been saying for quite a few years (possibly as long as a decade) that the term in question should be dropped. Nothing to do with offence about the origin of the term, but because I've known young conrunners who were put off by the tone of the title.

[kevin_standlee]

It has officially been dropped for a while. I misspoke and used the term with which I was familiar, and then apologized. But that's not good enough. Remember, you are never allowed to make a single mistake, and if you make any mistakes at all, you must be killed on the spot and all memory of your existence must be expunged.

[a_cubed]

Indeed. This is why I never post anything to that place except pure information any more.

It got too toxic for me. I only went back on because of CNZ, to monitor anything negative about it. It's got lower traffic than it used to, mostly I think because of this toxicity.