I don't get it.

[lederhosen]

I don't get all the fuss about the 'Open Source Boob Project' business.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that it's skeezy and obnoxious and all. I just don't get why Some Guy On LJ being skeezy at a con is suddenly provoking such a flurry of posting, because my understanding is that there are lots of skeezy people on LJ - quite a few of whom go to cons - and generally it doesn't attract anywhere near this level of attention. If it was Orson Scott Card or somebody else famous (or even Brendan Nelson) I could understand, but not this.

(I think what this boils down to is that a lot of people seem to view the originator of the concept as a Somebody, and I've never figured out what makes him any more noteworthy than all the other folk on LJ who have opinions and aren't afraid to post them. Therefore I just write him off under the "lots of people are idiots" umbrella category.)

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

'Unwilling witness'. Yeah. That means you're a trap just by being in the area, and I don't even have to actually interact with you to make you uncomfortable.

I don't want people like you at cons, because they're supposed to be places where you can act weird and be comfortable doing it.

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

You're a trap just by being in the area, and I don't even have to interact with you to be made uncomfortable.

Why is your need to be groped/grope/witness groping so much more important than my unwillingness?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Because you don't have the right to be a walking injunction imposing your personal quirks on everyone in line of sight. You want to change everyone's behavior to suit yourself.

'Not being able to do stuff' is more important than 'not being able to force everyone in the world to obey arbitrary rules I set for them'. This doesn't really seem like a very hard concept to grasp.