> I've even seen segregation on a smaller scale in the scifi/fantasy
> communities. You have the science fiction folks vs. the fantasy folks. And in
> science fiction you have the hard scifi folks vs. the soft scifi folks. In
> the hard scifi you have the traditionalists vs. the new agers. This
> seperation into us and them is in every walk of life and seems to be more
> pronounced today than it's ever been. I would imagine quite a few authors
> have addressed this subject even Dr. Seuss!
You know, I was wondering about that myself... not figuratively but literaly.
At BayCon I wandered about in my free time (I was staffing the art show)
looking for stuff to do. Since I'm relatively new to Cons there's alot
that is fairly new to me (filk, anime, etc). So I went to the anime room and
watched some good stuff and then wandered to the filk room later on. So on
during the Con. What I noticed was that there were very different crowds at
alot of these activities which did not overlap.
This was not always so, but in general none of the filkers seemed to
watch anime and none of the anime crowd seemed to wander over to the ballroom
dancing and none of the ballroom dancers where at any of Hoffman's Dr. Who or
Vampire talks.
While there where exceptions (like me), it seemed to me that this was
the norm. I didnt get around to as many parties so I couldnt verify that this
continued into the night.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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