SIGH. Bumping this to the #2 spot of blog posts I NEED TO WRITE but San Diego Comic Con has some serious issues it needs to address, and the fact that their director of marketing and PR has so blatantly demonstrated that he has no freaking clue as to how anti-harassment policies work and why detailed, clearly spelled out codes of conduct are necessary and actually *encourage* attendance does not encourage me in any way to feel that SDCC would actually handle reports of harassment correctly. As a response to the petition, David Glanzer, Comic-Con’s director of marketing and public relations — someone whose actual job is to talk to the media about this sort of thing — gave a remarkable interview to CBR‘s Albert Ching where he suggested, astonishingly, that instituting a more explicit anti-harassment policy would be a problem in and of itself, because people in the media and the attendee base might think that Comic-Con has a problem with harassment: …because we’re really an international show, and have 3,000 members of the media, I think the story would be harassment is such an issue at Comic-Con that they needed to post these signs around there. Now, people within the industry, and fans, know that isn’t the case, but the general public out there, and I think the news media, might look at this as, “Why would you, if this wasn’t such a bad issue, why do you feel the need to single out this one issue and put signs up about it?” I think that’s a concern. I really, really want to be able to attend SDCC someday, and cosmos willing, actually do so as a panelist and a representative of Chicago Nerd Social Club, but nothing here makes me feel as if Id be doing so in an environment that gives 2 figs about my safety or understands why harassment is a problem.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:54:33 +0000
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