Good lord. I don't see a single badge on any of them - nothing, actually, that would even HINT that they were at CONvergence. This picture could have been taken at Spring Break.
I'll cut and paste my response to porcelainsakura because I'm lazy about typing.
I don't know if I want to do that necessarily...it seems like it could be misconstrued as exclusionist, and/or that someone happening across it could misinterpret it as "they need to gtfo out because they're preps" instead of "they tried to steal from a nonprofit, they got busted, and that's full of lols." I wanna keep it lighthearted.
I don't really care how they're dressed or what they look like; what I really care about is that they tried to bully their way past two chicks when they knew they weren't supposed to. That's beyond lame, no matter who does it.
(Sorry, emotional baggage story: I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction when I feel that a "you're not a real geek" scenario" is imminent. Remember, CONvergence ultimately started as a way to fill in the perceived void that Minicon left behind when it decided as a whole to concentrate on 'true" scifiness and exclude everything that wasn't a particular flavor of geekdom. CONvergence aims to be just the opposite and to include everyone...I always think of it more as a fandom convention than a scifi convention, to be honest. So yeah, knee-jerk reaction even though the scenario is not exactly the same. Emotional baggage and all from being told that we weren't the right type of geeks so many years ago.)
Yeah! I mean, seriously. At least the dude in the blue lei has been to the renaissance festival.
But really, "hanging out with bullies" DOES mean you aren't a real geek. And the Minicon split, despite how it made a lot of people feel, had a lot to do with being a lit con vs. an everything con. But convergence including all geeky genres and media types doesn't mean you have to include people who don't even like SF. Period.
Especially when they treat your volunteers like shit.
As I said, kneejerk reaction, imperfect parallel. These guys are clearly douches, but it's through their actions, not their appearance. What I want to carefully avoid is prejudging anyone or giving the impression thereof as "not one of us" based on how they look or how they're dressed.
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Exhibit #2 is that guy who dressed up like Rose Tyler. What a loser!
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Actually, everyone that I found to be annoying was absent a badge at con this year. Coincidence?
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I don't know if I want to do that necessarily...it seems like it could be misconstrued as exclusionist, and/or that someone happening across it could misinterpret it as "they need to gtfo out because they're preps" instead of "they tried to steal from a nonprofit, they got busted, and that's full of lols." I wanna keep it lighthearted.
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seriously, could they be whiter or more generic? I think this pic is a much better argument for closed parties than any other argument I've seen yet.
I would go with douchbagsatconvergence.com. And I'd put every one of those fuckers up there ;)
also: maybe there should be a Wall of Shame?
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I don't really care how they're dressed or what they look like; what I really care about is that they tried to bully their way past two chicks when they knew they weren't supposed to. That's beyond lame, no matter who does it.
(Sorry, emotional baggage story: I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction when I feel that a "you're not a real geek" scenario" is imminent. Remember, CONvergence ultimately started as a way to fill in the perceived void that Minicon left behind when it decided as a whole to concentrate on 'true" scifiness and exclude everything that wasn't a particular flavor of geekdom. CONvergence aims to be just the opposite and to include everyone...I always think of it more as a fandom convention than a scifi convention, to be honest. So yeah, knee-jerk reaction even though the scenario is not exactly the same. Emotional baggage and all from being told that we weren't the right type of geeks so many years ago.)
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But really, "hanging out with bullies" DOES mean you aren't a real geek. And the Minicon split, despite how it made a lot of people feel, had a lot to do with being a lit con vs. an everything con. But convergence including all geeky genres and media types doesn't mean you have to include people who don't even like SF. Period.
Especially when they treat your volunteers like shit.
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http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php
Create, pass it on.
Can we just start a a huge thread of em?
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