I’ve written before about my attitude regarding WorldCon and the Hugos — short synopsis, overrun by progs and no longer worth the dime.
SJWs being SJWs, it’s only gotten worse.
A panelist’s bio on the WorldCon site, apparently lifted from another website (and we’ll not go into the ethics and general laziness of that; the con should have required each panelist to provide their own picture and bio) was edited to “normalize” the odd gender pronouns the panelist preferred — apparently because whoever was formatting it for the WorldCon website thought they were typos. Not going into that insanity either; it’s been well covered by Mad Mike and crew on Facebook.* Bottom line is that this “triggered” the panelist, who got all huffy and opined that it would not feel safe at WorldCon. (In other words, the usual snowflake response of someone who doesn’t understand that the world doesn’t give a fuck about its pretentious bullshit.)
So now, the whole LGBTQwhateverthefuck community is up in arms and the WorldCon committee is finding itself bombarded by demands and general pissyness from said community. It was gigglesome to start with and now it’s completely off-the-rails insanely hilarious. This sad person has decided to form a so-called “Queer Rapid Response Team” for WorldCon. Now, given that I’ve never heard of this person and never read any of their work, their authority to do something like this escapes me; but there you have it. Apparently due to the preferred pronoun “gaffe”, the queer community has decided that they are going to be suppressed at WorldCon (the opposite is more likely true, since most of WorldCon these days is SJWs), so this “team’s” brief is “about making sure [they’re] allowed to operate within the convention itself.” Give me a fucking break. Have you never BEEN to a convention? Nobody fucking cares about your quirks.
I submit to you that this is another self-inflicted wound in the entirely-avoidable Death of a Thousand Cuts being suffered by WorldCon over the past half-decade or so, which are entirely due to its Gramscian capture by nutbags on the left. When Mad Mike says on Facebook, “When you watch WorldCon self-immolate”, followed by
it’s pretty clear that the non-unhinged contingent is just sitting back watching the world burn at this point. Well, and snarking about it, of course. Because it is entirely snarkalicious.
My advice? Fuck it, support and attend LibertyCon and/or DragonCon, or one of the other ‘cons where normal, rational people organize and attend. Nominate and vote in the Dragon Awards, screw the Hugos. They’re toast.
Heinlein was right, although the progs ruling WorldCon would never admit it: These are indeed the Crazy Years.
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* I’m surprised this hasn’t shown up on his blog yet. I suppose he’s been busy 🙂