Posted in: /r/askfens
Posted by: OldManTom
Subj: RE: RE: Congoers of the Fenspace convention. What's your creepiest con experience?
> /OldTom I know someone who'll be able to help with that. I'll let her know to PM. She's still banned from this sub so won't see the post.
Thanks.
> Apparently some of the great centers of the Social Media experiment metastasized while we weren't looking/relevant to them.
Oh, this is nothing new. Ever heard of something called the SCUM Manifesto? I read a copy of that once and it was as ugly as anything those Red Pill troglodytes put out. And you'll always find someone dumb enough to play Fanaticism Top Trumps in any ideological movement; just ask the Labour Party circa 1980.
I can definitely empathise with your con experience, though. Maybe I'm too heavily desensitised from my long exposure to squaddie humour, but it seems like some people actively go looking for things to be offended by. And the next person who suggests my partner is somehow "cheating" by dating a straight guy, even in jest, is getting pepper-sprayed!
Posted by: OldManTom
Subj: RE: RE: Congoers of the Fenspace convention. What's your creepiest con experience?
> /OldTom I know someone who'll be able to help with that. I'll let her know to PM. She's still banned from this sub so won't see the post.
Thanks.
> Apparently some of the great centers of the Social Media experiment metastasized while we weren't looking/relevant to them.
Oh, this is nothing new. Ever heard of something called the SCUM Manifesto? I read a copy of that once and it was as ugly as anything those Red Pill troglodytes put out. And you'll always find someone dumb enough to play Fanaticism Top Trumps in any ideological movement; just ask the Labour Party circa 1980.
I can definitely empathise with your con experience, though. Maybe I'm too heavily desensitised from my long exposure to squaddie humour, but it seems like some people actively go looking for things to be offended by. And the next person who suggests my partner is somehow "cheating" by dating a straight guy, even in jest, is getting pepper-sprayed!