As of May 21st when this was written, there
is another fan run convention that is under attack by elitist pig professional
writers. This is the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention. Basically, what happened was that an
allegedly bestselling author named Shannon Hale made allegations about sexual
harassment that a friend of hers, who has gone unnamed, supposedly experienced
at last year’s convention. Evidently,
what happened was that a local writer Richard Paul Evans hugged the female in
question, thinking that it’s a friendly gesture as any reasonable person would.
However, Shannon Hale is not a reasonable person. She is a professional writer who is always
out for maximum publicity even if she comes across as an absolute jackass in
the course of doing so. The wild
allegations of so-called sexual harassment that she has made after her friend
was hugged have won her tremendous publicity at the expense of what is
generally regarded as being one of the very best fan-run comics conventions
around.
Hale has undertaken this course of action
despite the fact that her friend went through the official procedures for
handling matters such as this. The
convention has two women in charge of handling sexual harassment
allegations. They investigated the allegations
and concluded that Hale’s friend was wrong, no sexual harassment took
place. Of course to an extremist like
Hale, that was not good enough so she went public with her allegations.
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