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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6205551" data-attributes="member: 3400">Groups may do this, but not every group has the right to do it beyond their own little social clique. That's affording the practice a legitimacy that doesn't exist. That groups do this broadly doesn't make it a right at all. They certainly don't have the right to do it at a convention or on a web site that others have organized and are determined to make open and inviting.  In the public venues in which this occurs, there are tools available that should be used including bringing in con security or other event organizers. And I, for one, am determined to do so when some cretin tries to alpha geek either my wife or daughter because they're not geeky enough for him. Private attitudes are private attitudes. But public behavior is public behavior and can, and should, be sanctioned appropriately.</blockquote>