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I totally hear you on the Not Playing Nice part. It's worse than herding cats.

Which brings me to what, on reflection, I think my fundamental problem with the gendered language is: I don't actually see fandom as a female space. It's far too big and diverse to be laid claim to by any one faction. There are women here. There are men, too. There are also people who identify as neither. We all have space under the fandom umbrella. Sometimes the spaces overlap; sometimes they don't. Basically, I see I see fandom as a neutral space, and also I think any organisation that purports to try to support fandom should try to preserve that neutrality.

I've met Cathy, but only in her capacity as a SMOF. I think I gave her some of my Contreau as a bribe at a fan olympics a couple of swancons ago. I would like to know more about the board's fandom credentials - what their gateway fandom was, what they're currently active in, what do they produce now, what have the produced in the past... Get an idea of where they're actually coming from in relation to my own experiences.