I always wonder how legit this is. I really didn’t hear this complaint til the constant pushing of women into predominantly male hobbies. I hear this complaint and sometimes I feel like they exaggerate and it really was a guy asking what their favorite comic book or anime is. And these ladies need to get over themselves. Led Zeppelin is before my time but I love the band and have one of their shirts. I’ve been asked by older people how I know the band or what got me into them. I’m happy to talk about it.
Honestly, as a longtime con-goer, the "Cosplay Is Not Consent" movement was actually needed.
Most people that you meet at conventions are friendly, normal people. However, there is a certain subset that I would call "socially retarded." Some of these people have sense of personal hygiene; others have no sense of appropriate behavior with strangers. Add in the anonymity that empowers people with ill intent, and things can go south. I have several friends of both sexes who experienced sexual harassment or even (minor) assault at conventions.
How people behave depends a lot on the specific type of con. In my experience, horror cons tend to be the best in this regard; anime cons tend to be the worst. This behavior is also not confined to males. Some of the worst offenders were teenage girls. "Glomping" (tackle-hugging) strangers because they were dressed as a certain character was almost female-exclusive.
Overall, the atmosphere of cons, after CINC became semi-mainstream, improved in my experience.
Sometimes, albeit more rarely, it could get more serious though, with groping people's breasts/genitalia, or whacking people on the asses with those stupid "Yaoi Paddles" that were popular a while back.
I agree, that it wasn't like people were getting raped on the convention floor, but there needed to be some kind of initiative to tell people that they still have to act like civilized human being at conventions.
I always wonder how legit this is. I really didn’t hear this complaint til the constant pushing of women into predominantly male hobbies. I hear this complaint and sometimes I feel like they exaggerate and it really was a guy asking what their favorite comic book or anime is. And these ladies need to get over themselves. Led Zeppelin is before my time but I love the band and have one of their shirts. I’ve been asked by older people how I know the band or what got me into them. I’m happy to talk about it.
Honestly, as a longtime con-goer, the "Cosplay Is Not Consent" movement was actually needed.
Most people that you meet at conventions are friendly, normal people. However, there is a certain subset that I would call "socially retarded." Some of these people have sense of personal hygiene; others have no sense of appropriate behavior with strangers. Add in the anonymity that empowers people with ill intent, and things can go south. I have several friends of both sexes who experienced sexual harassment or even (minor) assault at conventions.
How people behave depends a lot on the specific type of con. In my experience, horror cons tend to be the best in this regard; anime cons tend to be the worst. This behavior is also not confined to males. Some of the worst offenders were teenage girls. "Glomping" (tackle-hugging) strangers because they were dressed as a certain character was almost female-exclusive.
Overall, the atmosphere of cons, after CINC became semi-mainstream, improved in my experience.
Sometimes, albeit more rarely, it could get more serious though, with groping people's breasts/genitalia, or whacking people on the asses with those stupid "Yaoi Paddles" that were popular a while back.
I agree, that it wasn't like people were getting raped on the convention floor, but there needed to be some kind of initiative to tell people that they still have to act like civilized human being at conventions.