What a large part of the current Swancon discussion comes down to, sadly, is that there are some people for whom community means "anyone who is exactly like me and has no needs or interests other than mine."
My definition is a lot broader than that!
I don't expect other people to babysit for me or mind my children, and it regularly shocks me how many people are so anti-children that their mere presence seems to throw them into a tizzy. The least I expect from a convention is that its participants not make me feel like shit for including my whole family.
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What a large part of the current Swancon discussion comes down to, sadly, is that there are some people for whom community means "anyone who is exactly like me and has no needs or interests other than mine."
My definition is a lot broader than that!
I don't expect other people to babysit for me or mind my children, and it regularly shocks me how many people are so anti-children that their mere presence seems to throw them into a tizzy. The least I expect from a convention is that its participants not make me feel like shit for including my whole family.