Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:11:16 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] This subject needs relabeling... [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Blish...Re: Enterprise - the end is nig
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> omni at omniphile.com 4/20/2005 6:04:12 PM >>>
>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?  ;-)

A Saturn V perhaps...
>
>-- Mike B.
>--
>Funny . . . only sensible people agree with me.