On being unsafe

Other people have done an excellent job of cataloging the odious amounts of priviledge and downright failure on the part of the aspects of the SF community to come to grips with the preponderance of priviledge being demonstrated by some pretty prominent authors, editors and just smofs. Including, and this is most reprehsnible, following a atctic of "outing" that strikes me as the worst of Fox-news type outrages. Bill O'Reilly would be proud.

The worst thing is this is not unique. This happens every single time. And the authors/editors who do it just go on their happy way. If there was justice in the world Harlan Ellison and Orson Scott Card would have long ago stop selling books, and there would be an even bigger list of folks suffering from that.

For me, this personally resonates. One of the reasons I stopped being so active in gaming was watching how peaseblossom was treated in her attempts to discuss feminism. For example, I still cringe whenever anyone mentions Spirit of the Century.

Yes, its unfair to expect SF to be better and more safe than the larger world. But I certainly don't have to like it.