Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:04:12 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] This subject needs relabeling... [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Blish... Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 05:25 PM 4/20/05 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>Ted White wrote:

>As subcultures go, fandom is easily one of the most accepting I've run
>into outside of church groups (who essentially do it for a living, and
>tend to turn mean if you don't give them money).

They are also only accepting if you confine all your activities and
thoughts to permitted areas.  They will take about anyone who agrees to
sign over their brain for entry.  Tolerant they are not.

Before anyone starts pointing out that levels of tolerance vary from one
creed to another, I'll agree with that.  Still, even the more tolerant ones
are pretty strict about their dogma...I had a friend once who was thrown
out of the Unitarians for asking too many questions.

>Possibly the worst is
>model rocket fandom -- I went to a national level event once and
>*nobody* would talk to me.  Feh.

Did you have a rocket in your pocket?  ;-)

-- Mike B.
--
Funny . . . only sensible people agree with me.