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Originally Posted by nomesque
I think I can understand how you feel regarding ghosts, WW - must be hard to walk around seeing the spaces. 
Do we have to let those who sneer steal a term from one of our own and use it as an insult? Bugger that!! |
Quite honestly, I couldn't care less about those idiots who use the term SciFi in a derogatory manner. I know what it means to me, and that really is the only important issue. Letting other people control our lives by feeling insulted by the terminology they use is counter-productive. If you know you're a SciFi fan, you're the only one whose opinion you have to worry about. As for hard science fiction, soft science fiction, or fantasy, they're all part of the same thing, the "what would happen if" school of thought, otherwise known as "speculative fiction". Realistically, any fiction is speculative fiction, since every novel out there deals with a "what would happen if" situation.
I've been a SciFi fan since I was about 8 years old, I'm now 62, and I have never cared about what people have thought about my reading habits. It seems to me in watching the years go by that we've become too thin-skinned, we worry too much about what other people think of us. Political correctness should have limits, unfortunately we passed any kind of limit years and years ago. I mean, really, is "visually challenged" really necessary when blind says it so much better?
As long as one obeys the rules of rules of a rational society, and he treats others as he (and I just know someone's going to object that I didn't do the "he/she" thing, that thin skin is everywhere) would be treated, then everybody else can go hang.
My opinions, don't much care if you don't like them, you're welcome to your own.
Dan
