The Way to Bet

[bcholmes]

So, this is the crux of it for me. The section that I quoted, before:

After extensive conversation in recent days, and having spoken directly with Ms. Moon on the subject, we continue to believe that her presence will contribute to the Con.

Well, I can imagine a few ways that the "spoken directly with" part might have gone.

She could have said: "I stand behind what I wrote, and I have nothing further to say on this topic."

She could have said: "I'm terrified of the responses, and what that might mean for my career as a science fiction writer. I'm just trying to put my head down and hope that it all calms down."

She might even have said: "I get that people are really angry. I just need to get a bit of distance from the issue before I feel comfortable saying more on this topic."

Or: "I'm content to have some conversation about all this at WisCon, but I just don't want to hash it all out on the Internet."

Heck, she may have even said that she hopes to use her GoH speech as a forum to apologize to the entire WisCon community for being so clueless. I don't think that's likely, but it's possible.

All of those responses are possible, but based on what I've seen to date, I feel that one of those responses is more likely than the others: I think she intends to say nothing more on the topic. And if that's the case, if I were ConCom, I'd dump her.

I'm not ConCom, and ConCom didn't dump her. So I feel anxious that I don't understand this decision. Further, I feel like there's data ("how did Moon respond") that, if it were visible to me, would probably assuage my anxiousness. Having said that, I get that there are any number of reasons why this announcement didn't come with a transcript of the conversation.

I can't, for the life of me, figure out why I'm having difficulty trusting that ConCom is making the right choice. WisCon has never let me down. But I still have anxiousness.

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Re: Introducing awesome people to one other

[bcholmes]

Awesome! I think I recall her from a panel last year.