They're not everywhere, there's a very, very small cadre of them that have found each other and mobilized.
It's like the group that ruined science fiction in the 1930s... less than 200 people took an entire genre (well, actually, genres) of publishing and broke it. 200 people destroyed something read by millions, because the 200 were able to communicate, and knew the people who pulled the levers of power.
TL;DR: influential people in the early scifi community narrowed what was once a broad definition for the scifi genre and it pissed a ton of people off.
I'll probably do a review of it here, but I just got finished reading a book about the "genre wars", where SF was split off from fantasy, which was then split off from adventure. Essentially, there was a very small group (~50-200) people who ran the conventions, the fanzines, everything that "ran" the publishing industry for SF/F from ~1930-~1965. They ran the industry into the ground, and then mooched off of people (Bradbury, Heinlein, etc.) who were outside the clique, but were actually selling.
Once the out-of-touch boomers who run everything die or realize the "one Tweet equals ten billion customers!!!" philosophy is beyond wrong, the trannies will lose all their power in an instant. When that happens, it's gonna be a bad day to be a tranny.
They're not everywhere, there's a very, very small cadre of them that have found each other and mobilized.
It's like the group that ruined science fiction in the 1930s... less than 200 people took an entire genre (well, actually, genres) of publishing and broke it. 200 people destroyed something read by millions, because the 200 were able to communicate, and knew the people who pulled the levers of power.
That sounds like a fascinating tale. Can you elaborate? I wasn't alive at the time.
TL;DR: influential people in the early scifi community narrowed what was once a broad definition for the scifi genre and it pissed a ton of people off.
you can't tl;dr and not provide the tl to dr
I'll probably do a review of it here, but I just got finished reading a book about the "genre wars", where SF was split off from fantasy, which was then split off from adventure. Essentially, there was a very small group (~50-200) people who ran the conventions, the fanzines, everything that "ran" the publishing industry for SF/F from ~1930-~1965. They ran the industry into the ground, and then mooched off of people (Bradbury, Heinlein, etc.) who were outside the clique, but were actually selling.
Once the out-of-touch boomers who run everything die or realize the "one Tweet equals ten billion customers!!!" philosophy is beyond wrong, the trannies will lose all their power in an instant. When that happens, it's gonna be a bad day to be a tranny.