Even given that, I was shocked by the tone of the sections in the policy about disabled people's aides/carers and the level of suspicion and hostility.
Put it this way: the place where I work has had a bit of critique over our policy on aides/carers for users with disabilities because we require the aides to go through the same ID verification process as the users do, which breaches some people's principled belief that aides should be treated in that context as simply an appendage of the person they're helping and that anything else creates an extra barrier for disabled people. But we think that's justified because of our general security issues.
On the other hand the VVC policy seemed absolutely convinced that aides would be unpleasant outsiders who would mock fannishness, sexually harass fangirls letting it all hang out in a safe space, turn people in to copyright holders and so on. To which my response is "seriously, how likely is it that a disabled fan would have someone like that as their aide?". And if the aide does misbehave then I'd say the organisers would be fully justified in kicking both people out and holding the disabled fan responsible for their choice of retainer.
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Put it this way: the place where I work has had a bit of critique over our policy on aides/carers for users with disabilities because we require the aides to go through the same ID verification process as the users do, which breaches some people's principled belief that aides should be treated in that context as simply an appendage of the person they're helping and that anything else creates an extra barrier for disabled people. But we think that's justified because of our general security issues.
On the other hand the VVC policy seemed absolutely convinced that aides would be unpleasant outsiders who would mock fannishness, sexually harass fangirls letting it all hang out in a safe space, turn people in to copyright holders and so on. To which my response is "seriously, how likely is it that a disabled fan would have someone like that as their aide?". And if the aide does misbehave then I'd say the organisers would be fully justified in kicking both people out and holding the disabled fan responsible for their choice of retainer.