Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:06:05 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: SF fandom- this has been interesting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Velcro

At 11:05 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
>You're welcome.  Seriously though, there's a real problem with wearing
>star trek uniforms in public.  The producers never had the money to sew
>pockets on the darn things.  Unless you follow the lead of John Luke and
>are forever pulling your shirt back into place, what on earth do you do
>with your hands?  They also make them so skin tight that when you put on
>a few pounds you look like Scotty or like Kirk in the middle of the
>season when too many hamburgers have taken their toll.  And where do you
>put your professional writer's obligatory fountain pen?  Nor are women
>allowed an official issue pocket book.  How did anyone manage without
>being able to carry anything around except a tricorder, communicator,
>and weapon?  Not even the Ferengi had pockets, although they spent their
>whole lives trying to acquire latinum.  Where did they put it?  And was
>everyone's rear end magnatized?  How else could they fly a space ship
>without seat belts on the seats?  --Tom
>
>Drew Bittner wrote:
>
> >Thanks, Tom!
> >She's really getting a kick out of this...
> >Drew
> >
> >--- thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Everyone will have to wear their star trek uniforms
> >>and pipe her
> >>aboard.  --Tom Haughey
> >>
> >>Drew Bittner wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on this
> >>>
> >>topic.
> >>
> >>>My headstrong opinion has brought forth food for
> >>>thought.
> >>>I think sf fandom has had an image problem largely
> >>>because of media fandom, as Nikki points out. The
> >>>
> >>two
> >>
> >>>are conflated in the public mind. Maybe it breaks
> >>>
> >>down
> >>
> >>>into the worlds of sf readership and sf fandom
> >>>
> >>having
> >>
> >>>some overlap but not absolute congruence (one being
> >>>
> >>a
> >>
> >>>subset of the other?).
> >>>My fiancee (Katherine, 23, graduating college next
> >>>month) has gotten very interested in sf because
> >>>
> >>it's a
> >>
> >>>genre of ideas. She has no experience with fandom
> >>>
> >>but
> >>
> >>>her preconceptions (before she met me) were
> >>>
> >>negative,
> >>
> >>>based on media stories about Trek fans in costume,
> >>>etc.
> >>>She's come around and is very interested in meeting
> >>>everyone at WSFA, but she is rather shy-- don't be
> >>>surprised if she's very quiet at first.
> >>>Are we a welcoming community? I think sf fans can
> >>>
> >>be
> >>
> >>>very welcoming or very cliquish, like any group of
> >>>people. Many of us (me included) have very strong
> >>>opinions and express them forcefully; it can get
> >>>
> >>out
> >>
> >>>of hand.
> >>>But like any group, there are those to whom you
> >>>gravitate and those to whom you don't.
> >>>Everyone is a fan in their own way. With luck,
> >>>
> >>through
> >>
> >>>meeting others and chatting, we expand each others'
> >>>horizons. I'm glad I've become part of WSFA and
> >>>
> >>look
> >>
> >>>forward to introducing Katherine to the group in
> >>>
> >>June.
> >>
> >>>Drew
> >>>
> >>>__________________________________________________
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >__________________________________________________
> >

Candy

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