In July 2009, at science fiction convention Readercon, a flyer was distributed for next year's Readercon, saying This IS your father's Readercon. This did not appeal to many fans, who feel that fandom is already sufficiently focused on old men to the exclusion of women and the younger generation.
Coverage/responses/etc
- The greying of fandom is mysterious and inexplicable at fandom_wank (a fairly good round-up of early posts on the topic)
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