One of the things that's driven me up the wall in recent years is the wholesale inability by organised fandom to recognise they are closed off, unwelcoming and based around cliques.
Even when there are people holding up their hands saying "um, I'm a big fan of SF and I've felt deeply unwelcome", people deny it to their faces.
I'm not making this up: actual people verbally denying newcomers' experiences to their face. The conversation goes like this:
NEW FAN: "This place isn't very welcoming or nice to me." OLD FAN: "You're wrong."
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Date: 2009-06-02 07:59 am (UTC)One of the things that's driven me up the wall in recent years is the wholesale inability by organised fandom to recognise they are closed off, unwelcoming and based around cliques.
Even when there are people holding up their hands saying "um, I'm a big fan of SF and I've felt deeply unwelcome", people deny it to their faces.
I'm not making this up: actual people verbally denying newcomers' experiences to their face. The conversation goes like this:
NEW FAN: "This place isn't very welcoming or nice to me."
OLD FAN: "You're wrong."