On Wiscon, I suppose.

Nora's post on why she's done with Wiscon. This makes me sad, because I'm sure Wiscon would be a better Wiscon with her working behind the scenes, with her on panels, with her just being there. And she's not even the only one resigning and/or stating intentions of not going to Wiscon. I don't want to miss an opportunity to see Shweta!

I don't know that anything can be done at this point to 'fix' things, but removing Elizabeth Moon as GoH would be a start. Because it's definitely going to be a lesser Wiscon without all these cool people there. People I know, people I don't know.

It means there will be people I won't get to talk to while standing in line for the dessert salon. Book recommendations that I won't get to hear. New ways of looking at things that I won't get to discover. Fewer sparks for story ideas. Interesting panels that just won't happen. Fewer con reports to read. A smaller, or less diverse, or just plain less interesting Wiscon Chronicle.

When you hurt people, when you ignore them and everyone speaking out for them, you're affecting everyone. You're affecting me; white able-bodied 30-something not-exactly-marginalized me. And you're affecting each and every person who will attend Wiscon this year, and the next. And all the people who won't be attending who otherwise would have. Are you afraid of hurting Moon's feelings? Or what? Because you've negatively affected (hurt in smaller and larger ways) everyone else instead. Good job.

Apparently I had more to say about that than I thought.

In closing, here's John Scalzi's "Things I Don't Have to Think About Today" in case you haven't seen it yet.