And the thing is...this whole geeky fanboy "CAN I TOUCH YOUR BOOBS?" scenario is also about power. This ferret dude and his pals can pseudo-intellectualize and play the "socially awkward naiveté" card all they want – cons still tend to be very much a predominately male space, and this is just another way of marking territory. More and more women are attending, spending money at and even helping to organize cons these days; crap like this is an unfortunately predictable response from the old guard.

As for the females who were involved with this stupidity...WHATever. I learned a long time ago that some women will cut their own throats – not to mention those of any other woman in the vicinity! – in order to gain the tiniest scrap of male approval.