the way in which the sf community polices itself, that it is a very accepting community until you have the temerity to point out that the Emperor is wearing no clothes, that acceptance is predicated on conformity, even if that conformity is much more loosely and eccentrically defined than the norm.
OMG most important thing evar. (Also, kind of neat to watch, sociologically speaking, that point at which a group that bends over backwards to accomodate difference discovers its own discomfort with particular kinds of difference.) The biggest lie SF ever told itself is that it doesn't reproduce the same social and interpersonal problems that exist among mundanes. I don't have a problem with the fact the problems exist; we're not so special that we can just flip the bird at all dominant paradigms; but acknowledging that the problems are there, and being willing to talk them over, is sometimes hard to do.
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OMG most important thing evar. (Also, kind of neat to watch, sociologically speaking, that point at which a group that bends over backwards to accomodate difference discovers its own discomfort with particular kinds of difference.) The biggest lie SF ever told itself is that it doesn't reproduce the same social and interpersonal problems that exist among mundanes. I don't have a problem with the fact the problems exist; we're not so special that we can just flip the bird at all dominant paradigms; but acknowledging that the problems are there, and being willing to talk them over, is sometimes hard to do.