Body Image / Israel Trip

[browngirl]

Two signal boosts:

My name is Alex Horwitz, a Junior at the University of Kansas. In my Holocaust Literature class, Eva shared her survival story and touched us all with her courage and perseverance in the face of horrific prejudice. He's spearheading a drive to send her to Israel.

Over at Dreamwidth, Damned Colonial posted a summary of results from a poll on body image and geek gatherings (various types of conventions, etc, I found it intriguing, and there are a lot of old-guard SF fans I'd love to show it to except for/because of how violently they'd react.

Comments

[sethg]

...or perhaps the sense that when you’re among fans, you’re among “your own tribe”, makes harrassment by fellow fans more painful, and more likely to trigger feelings of “there must be something wrong with me”.

[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that makes complete sense. It's not a feeling I tend to get at general interest SF cons because it's still read like a big group of people I don't know, but I can see where someone would feel differently and then get slapped in the face by harassment :(.

Anyway you slice it, it really sucks. I'm always glad to hear when a con takes harassment seriously and takes action to minimize it.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*nod* This is definetely a factor in many of the situations I've seen and been involved in.