tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834532940600339602.post7299569343144367217..comments2014-10-20T10:05:18.949-04:00Comments on I am not a SMOF: InclusionJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17657274341817861060noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834532940600339602.post-63510302259455433842012-11-16T14:50:13.668-05:002012-11-16T14:50:13.668-05:00Wonderful post and points! I completely agree with...Wonderful post and points! I completely agree with you on this, the con community should be more open to people wanting to come and be part of the convention world, if people pay or attend the conventions, then they are there because they have some sort of interest or knowledge already, we should feed that and make them even bigger fans of the genre, not fuss and scare them away. I went to my first con when I was twelve in 1996 and have not looked back for one moment, everyone was so nice and encouraging, we need more of that and less complaining. Angela P.http://angelapritchett.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834532940600339602.post-76101465387705155162012-11-16T12:23:58.925-05:002012-11-16T12:23:58.925-05:00I, too, have encountered this attitude and all I c...I, too, have encountered this attitude and all I can say about your post is...Right ON, James, and thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01456818923382443835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834532940600339602.post-91052384309775153042012-11-15T21:45:32.401-05:002012-11-15T21:45:32.401-05:00Echoing. I was an avid reader of SF, watched Star...Echoing. I was an avid reader of SF, watched Star Trek and played AD&D...but I got noticed in a college fan club because I was the cute girl in the green skirt. <br /><br />I firmly believe that there is no such thing as a fake geek girl. They must have had interest in something if they are brave enough to cosplay in sexy outfits. Wether its a Poison Ivy cosplayer who's a firefly fan or the girl in Wonder Woman who could probably tell you every thing there is to know about Catwoman. It time fandom got over itself. Literary fans got over the media fans. Media fans got over the gamers. We are all fans. And it's time we started including each other. <br /><br />Came across this tonight to add to the discussion. The language is a bit intense (NSFW) but it reiterates James point. Stop excluding and start including.<br /><br />http://randomredux.tumblr.com/post/35698623762/the-fake-geek-girl-has-got-to-goTera Fulbrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18284166491425947545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834532940600339602.post-29112397564612655142012-11-15T20:29:41.006-05:002012-11-15T20:29:41.006-05:00Thank you for this. I'd be happy to see the wh...Thank you for this. I'd be happy to see the whole "fake geek girls" meme die a horrible death.<br /><br />Sometimes when I wear my Batman shirt out in public, a part of me is worried that some fanboy with a chip on his shoulder is going to corner me and start grilling me about upteen decades of Bat-history and if I get one little detail wrong, I'm going to be branded as a fake.<br /><br />When I first got to college, my only gaming experience was with AD&D. But the friends I started hanging out with who were gamers weren't playing D&D, they were playing this thing I'd never heard of before, Champions.<br /><br />Anyone who knows me will tell you that I purely suck at math, so you'd think that Champions would make me run screaming into the night. But my friends -- including my future husband, I might add -- welcomed me and took the time to explain the system to me, helped me build my first characters, corrected my mistakes, and were, in general, welcoming and inclusive.<br /><br />I never became a rules lawyer or an Olympic-class min-maxer, but to this day, Champions is my preferred RPG of choice. All because the geek guys who played it welcomed me instead of making fun of my lack of knowledge.Nerdiquette 101https://www.blogger.com/profile/09690908087648779485noreply@blogger.com