- Joined
- Dec 31, 2020
GDQ is family to broken people. Freaks and geeks have always had problems with their families and social lives. GDQ accepting them for 'who they are' makes them feel immense loyalty and attachment to that group. After being rejected for being a troon or being a worthless faggot playing video games all day that acceptable is all they live for. They will accept and do anything in order to not lose their in group. It's the same reason a lot of conventions are full of known child abusers and everyone covers for them. It's better to let some little boy get raped than to be rejected by the new family. This gets worse when the rapist is promoted and held up as a hero and starts to push for more and more abuse to be tolerated and celebrated.
Moira Greyland has an article on life site explaining how her parents were both sexually abusive, known child rapists and the sci fi community refused to bar them despite them using conventions as grooming grounds. Any one confused why GDQ looks like it does should read it, but here's the most important part of the article.
In all the counterculture groups, whether the Society for Creative Anachronism or science fiction fandom, the group becomes a stand-in for one’s own family. Fandom is full of the disaffected, the misfits, people from broken homes, even people who were rejected by their own families for one reason or another. The new surrogate family is every bit as broken as the original family, but its value is greatly exaggerated to the people who need it, because it provides not only a common frame of reference but common interests, and a sense of belonging and understanding which they might never have experienced before.
