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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 1727206" data-attributes="member: 9037">This is such and old dead horse. It has been around as long as there as been any kind of fandom. I remember back in the 70s in Trek fandom worry about the image certain freakazoids were giving the rest of us. At a Worldon I talked to a person who had been attending them since 1950 and it was an issue back then.There will always be social misfits attracted to hobbies like this it is one of the downside of being involved in something this creative. Think about it for a moment in this hobby you are encouraged to pretend to be someone else. And for some people that is like a siren's call.The media plays it up big time. As someone else said they never talk to the normal people who go the cons because that is not an interesting newsbite. What would grab your attention the normal person in jeans or the the guy in the conan outfit with a huge axe? Some of this is being taken way to seriously. Get over yourselves please. It is very simple don't play with people you don't like or who offend you. But this talk of "cleaning" up gaming makes me wonder if part of it is a little bit of embarrasment and worry of what other people might think about the hobby you choose to be in.Just wondering.</blockquote>