they have an anti harassment policy in place but apparently there is some whole case going on where a volunteer sexually assaulted another volunteer and PA is doing all they can do hide that under the proverbial carpet. I also have a hard time seeing PAX and PA as separate entities since the money all goes to the same account in the end, and they did encourage the whole dickwolves thing which was solely going to happen at PAX East last year.
but all that said, it's conflicting because on one hand, you can not go and know that you voted with your dollars and that you made a difference. on the other hand, it's not like your absence is going to be particularly noticed (unless you're in the industry) so maybe there -is- more of a chance of making a difference from the inside. it's just that i have low hopes of many people going to PAX being interested in learning about inclusion vs checking out Occulus Rift or something
which is why i think it's currently lose/lose. people want to go and have fun and not have PAX politicized. I tried talking about it with someone who had been a vocal ally but went and they shut down about the topic pretty quickly, which honestly i'm assuming a lot of people would do because clearly there's going to be a lot of dissonance.
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Date: 2014-04-16 09:33 pm (UTC)but all that said, it's conflicting because on one hand, you can not go and know that you voted with your dollars and that you made a difference. on the other hand, it's not like your absence is going to be particularly noticed (unless you're in the industry) so maybe there -is- more of a chance of making a difference from the inside. it's just that i have low hopes of many people going to PAX being interested in learning about inclusion vs checking out Occulus Rift or something
which is why i think it's currently lose/lose. people want to go and have fun and not have PAX politicized. I tried talking about it with someone who had been a vocal ally but went and they shut down about the topic pretty quickly, which honestly i'm assuming a lot of people would do because clearly there's going to be a lot of dissonance.