Yeah, I recall going to a con down in Melbourne years ago and there were some young boys tearing about the con. I sort of looked at them in a bemused manner and thought -- carry on. Because they weren't all that interested in what was going on at the con, really; they were more interested in playing amongst themselves, and the game room.
Kids will always be able to entertain themselves once they're of a certain age, and below that particular age there ought to be a creche.
I think kids DO belong at conventions, and not because I have any. I don't.
I see all these women at every workplace I've ever been at, and I always ask them what their hobbies are. They say: I USED TO LIKE ... and now they can't, won't, do what they USED to do. It's sad that we lose women fans this way. It sucks. For a bunch of supposedly educated and liberal people, fans can be pretty goddamned narrow-minded sometimes.
If I go to a convention and it's just that wee more expensive so that there can be a creche? Fine! I want to see more parents coming along, and then maybe when their younglings have grown old enough to like SF they'll come of their own volition, tear around like those boys I saw at that con years ago. We'll be all the better for it.
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Date: 2010-01-27 05:15 pm (UTC)Kids will always be able to entertain themselves once they're of a certain age, and below that particular age there ought to be a creche.
I think kids DO belong at conventions, and not because I have any. I don't.
I see all these women at every workplace I've ever been at, and I always ask them what their hobbies are. They say: I USED TO LIKE ... and now they can't, won't, do what they USED to do. It's sad that we lose women fans this way. It sucks. For a bunch of supposedly educated and liberal people, fans can be pretty goddamned narrow-minded sometimes.
If I go to a convention and it's just that wee more expensive so that there can be a creche? Fine! I want to see more parents coming along, and then maybe when their younglings have grown old enough to like SF they'll come of their own volition, tear around like those boys I saw at that con years ago. We'll be all the better for it.