I have many feelings about this (more from being on The Left than from panels and cons), and navigating between safety and the Geek Social Fallacies and my own rather complicated experiences around cancellation and disposability. I'd love to see some kind of in-depth discussion and reckoning tbh.
Yes! This is the sort of depth I'd love to see really discussed, because, safety is critical and paramount, and we are not all friends just because we're geeks. HOWEVER, it's not... always practical to assume that people are easily replaceable? Or, frankly, unteachable. Sometimes, people just need a nudge to correct behavior or sometimes you have to make some concessions? (Not with safety, necessarily, but) like, not all concessions are bad? And sometimes when you believe in a group, it's important to try to save all of the members? I think about our own gaming group and some of the work we did to make everyone's game experience better, and that sort of thing could have been a "Whelp, get rid of them!" situation. My writing groups have had similar hiccups. And, that's the kind of stuff I wanted to hear about from other people.
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Date: 2023-05-29 01:06 pm (UTC)Yes! This is the sort of depth I'd love to see really discussed, because, safety is critical and paramount, and we are not all friends just because we're geeks. HOWEVER, it's not... always practical to assume that people are easily replaceable? Or, frankly, unteachable. Sometimes, people just need a nudge to correct behavior or sometimes you have to make some concessions? (Not with safety, necessarily, but) like, not all concessions are bad? And sometimes when you believe in a group, it's important to try to save all of the members? I think about our own gaming group and some of the work we did to make everyone's game experience better, and that sort of thing could have been a "Whelp, get rid of them!" situation. My writing groups have had similar hiccups. And, that's the kind of stuff I wanted to hear about from other people.