racism in fandom

Well, I always knew it was rampant, but I've managed through a combination of thick skin and micro-groups to avoid stumbling across the worst of it (I do sometimes go looking/follow links but that's different). It makes one think one's immune, and then you happen across something like:

Well, you may be right, and perhaps I'm displaying West European prejudice, because I'd probably find this argument more convincing if it was India...

re: kidnapping and the dangers of following the kidnapper to a foreign country where one doesn't know the language and can't vote. The canonical country is Switzerland, where, as people have pointed out in-discussion, women didn't at the time have the vote, just to start with.

In India, women had the vote in 1947, which was when men got the vote.

I'm not saying the situation wasn't bad in India then, in fact it's rather awful now, but honestly, this sort of thing makes my skin crawl.


In other news, my sister had her surgery early today and is groggy and pissed off, but okay. Thanks for all the good wishes. ♥