Bring back the FuckFest!
Jun. 29th, 2003 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
out_thereJust got back from the QC101 info session. Man, I'm so disappointed. From the sound of it, it's going to be filled with student political junkies. All this crap about political affiliations, and how people have their own political ulterior motives in conversations, etc...
I'm really not that interested in spending a week debating student politics. *groan* I mean, a great example of the big difference between QC and a fandom convention is public kissing. The Te/Brat Queen kiss was an act of fun, amusement, enjoyment and pretty damn sexy. At QC, the public kissing was a "communal political action".
All in all, there were a couple of things that got to me. First of all, the weather was miserable, the theatre in which they held the info session was freezing (I mean, I was wearing my big woolen coat and my scarf and was still cold!) and i was pretty disorganised getting myself out the door, so that didn't help.
Going through a mock meeting so that we know the procedure (think motions, and seconding them, and voting, and "clarifying" motions *rolls eyes*) I suddenly realised just how boring this may end up. Remember the really interesting Reader that they sent out? It's background information that won't be covered at QC, not topics for discussion (which would have actually been interesting).
Also, when they were talking about the student political groups and their affiliations, there was the comment of "And, of course, they'll be some conservative queers that won't want to know anything about the politics. They'll be the ones reading Vogue." It was just the obvious... distaste in the comment. Yeah, I know it's impossible to have any group that isn't combined by dislike of a common enemy, it just bugs me to have groups preaching against discrimination with obvious attitude against a certain type of person. Of course, I see it this way because I am a conservative gal, who doesn't protest or go to rallies. And, honestly, I don't want to know the nitty gritty details of who screwed who over some uni's queer budget.
We also had the frequent reiteration that QC is a political conference, that's it's an educational activity and that it is not, regardless of prior reputation, a "fuck fest". Screw it. Forget the politics, bring back the fuck fest.
Well, if worse come to worst, it was only $40 to attend. I can register on Sunday, and just show up to the night-time fun, and spend days online. It's certainly not a bad way to spend a week. *bg*
I'm really not that interested in spending a week debating student politics. *groan* I mean, a great example of the big difference between QC and a fandom convention is public kissing. The Te/Brat Queen kiss was an act of fun, amusement, enjoyment and pretty damn sexy. At QC, the public kissing was a "communal political action".
All in all, there were a couple of things that got to me. First of all, the weather was miserable, the theatre in which they held the info session was freezing (I mean, I was wearing my big woolen coat and my scarf and was still cold!) and i was pretty disorganised getting myself out the door, so that didn't help.
Going through a mock meeting so that we know the procedure (think motions, and seconding them, and voting, and "clarifying" motions *rolls eyes*) I suddenly realised just how boring this may end up. Remember the really interesting Reader that they sent out? It's background information that won't be covered at QC, not topics for discussion (which would have actually been interesting).
Also, when they were talking about the student political groups and their affiliations, there was the comment of "And, of course, they'll be some conservative queers that won't want to know anything about the politics. They'll be the ones reading Vogue." It was just the obvious... distaste in the comment. Yeah, I know it's impossible to have any group that isn't combined by dislike of a common enemy, it just bugs me to have groups preaching against discrimination with obvious attitude against a certain type of person. Of course, I see it this way because I am a conservative gal, who doesn't protest or go to rallies. And, honestly, I don't want to know the nitty gritty details of who screwed who over some uni's queer budget.
We also had the frequent reiteration that QC is a political conference, that's it's an educational activity and that it is not, regardless of prior reputation, a "fuck fest". Screw it. Forget the politics, bring back the fuck fest.
Well, if worse come to worst, it was only $40 to attend. I can register on Sunday, and just show up to the night-time fun, and spend days online. It's certainly not a bad way to spend a week. *bg*
