Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:43:12 -0400
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: David Dance?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Candy Madigan wrote:
> At 05:46 PM 10/26/2006, you wrote:
>
>>At 05:13 PM 10/26/2006, Candy Madigan wrote:
>>
>>>>>Can you tell I'm finally pissed off enough to speak out?
>>>>
>>>>Oh yes....... loud and clear.
>>>
>>>You know what makes me maddest?  The stupidity of this whole thing.  How on
>>>*earth* could they have thought that doing this would be accepted, much
>>>less condoned?  It's the self-destructivemess of the whole thing that
>>>really gets me.
>>
>>I dunno.  Just because people accepted, condoned, and even told people to
>>quit making a fuss over it for  -- what, four or more years? -- shouldn't
>>give the Gillilands any reason at all to think that people would do so again.
>
> I'm sorry, not speaking out is *not* the same as condoning.  Many of us
> just wanted to remain neutral.  I still say that if people had ignored it
> it would have gone away, but fandom isn't exactly known for adult behavior.
>

Hey, we let it slide when they banned my son Steven from their house,
and it just made them think they could ban lots of other people. I can't
say that was all bad, because it did get us to rediscover BSFS (now
hashing out a possible series of author readings, over on *their* list,
by way of contrast) but I can't say any of us are happy about it.

Had we known that taking on a developmentally delayed 2 year old was
going to lead to banning Keith and Ted, we would have made more of a
protest at the time. But Jack felt like the club was OK with telling
Steven to leave, so we let it slide. Now I'm sorry we did.--Eva Whitley