My Millennicon boycott continues.....
Mar. 12th, 2014 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1This weekend is Millennicon, a science-fiction convention in Cincinnati. And once again, I'm not going. I haven't attended it since 1999, and that's not likely to change. A few years ago, I discussed why I no longer attend this convention.
Some further pieces of information: This convention charges disabled fans for their personal care assistants. Yes, I know the fan(s) involved, and that the PCA was a fan and volunteered to pay his own way. But a precedent was set. As far as I know, they are the only convention to do this.
But the final nail in the coffin was that after 12 years, I was still on their mailing list. At the Tom Smith house concert in December 2012, I saw Christy (the con chair) there and gave my mailed flyer back to her. I had marked on the flyer "Remove from list". But instead of asking me "Why?", she smiled and cheerfully said, "Thank you!" To her, I'm a nobody, despite me being the president of a local SF club for four years (from 2000-2003). Apparently she wants to keep it that way; not once has she reached out to me.
And that reinforces the idea I've had for some time that Fans Are Not Friends.
Some further pieces of information: This convention charges disabled fans for their personal care assistants. Yes, I know the fan(s) involved, and that the PCA was a fan and volunteered to pay his own way. But a precedent was set. As far as I know, they are the only convention to do this.
But the final nail in the coffin was that after 12 years, I was still on their mailing list. At the Tom Smith house concert in December 2012, I saw Christy (the con chair) there and gave my mailed flyer back to her. I had marked on the flyer "Remove from list". But instead of asking me "Why?", she smiled and cheerfully said, "Thank you!" To her, I'm a nobody, despite me being the president of a local SF club for four years (from 2000-2003). Apparently she wants to keep it that way; not once has she reached out to me.
And that reinforces the idea I've had for some time that Fans Are Not Friends.
