Oh dear, Consuela. That sounds like a mess. (PS: What are MSTers?)

My small amount of research confirms that I'm basically OK in my no-white-men current voting strategy, although I might throw a vote the way of a friend-of-a-friend who I apparently went to high school with. I thought his name was familiar, but it's a common name.

My small amount of research confirms that I'm basically OK in my no-white-men current voting strategy, although I might throw a vote the way of a friend-of-a-friend who I apparently went to high school with. I thought his name was familiar, but it's a common name.

Hah. My roommate and I used that for several down-ballot races as a strategy one year. Vote for the woman or the minority or best of all the minority woman, if there was no obvious choice. Though a few races were white men vs white men and we had to guess from their bios in the voter guide ("this guy says e was in the peace corps, should that win?")

PS: What are MSTers?

People who mock things like the Mystery Science Theater guys. They basically set up a website where they would post paragraphs of someone's story and make fun of the writing, the characterizations, etc. It's not unknown in fandom, but it's generally considered a slap in the face of the community, and these people made it even worse by mocking one of the other people on our very small mailing list. She reacted badly, figured out who it was, and gave away her Yahoogroups password so that several other people we didn't know could read all our mail for weeks.

Luckily, I've had plenty of good choices this year who are not white men! I'm not saying I would reject the best candidate if it were a white man, but when there are a bunch of people who all seem fine? Yeah.

People who mock things like the Mystery Science Theater guys.

Ah. Yikes. You know, I'm no angel, but rule one of talking shit is keep it LOCKED DOWN.

rule one of talking shit is keep it LOCKED DOWN.

Yeah, this one was intentionally public. Just mean, and petty, too.

Oh yeah, we only used that for races where we didn't have good info and there was no party affiliation or whatever. I would vote against the gay dude for mayor, I I hadn't forgotten my ballot, and probably would've voted against the lesbian if I lived in NYC, so it doesn't work for bigger races.

Yeah, this one was intentionally public. Just mean, and petty, too.

That's awful, Consuela.

I just voted. Most no-brainer election EVER. Seriously, even in the primaries it was a choice between Di Blasio, Quinn, and a bunch of Bond villains.

Yeah. It was stupid, and people overreacted, but that's fandom for you. I like to think well of people, I'm not a sneaky person, and I feel like that element of my personality was taken advantage of by people I trusted. I dislike this intensely.