Re: A retraction and one more thing
Author: ex-BN
Date: 08-02-2012 - 19:19
Minneapolis Depot Wrote:
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> One more point: There are gay railfans and perhaps
> other gays who could be interested in trains.
> Some of the commentary in this and in other
> threads, will turn people off to the hobby. Not a
> good thing for a hobby which has difficulty
> attracting new people compared to previous years.
Is there a need to attract more people to railfanning?
You are right that homophobic rants don't help the image of railfans but I think that image was already tarnished by the disproportionate number of loud, rude, know-it-all people in the railfan community. While there are plenty of wonderful railfans around the obnoxious ones tend to garner the most attention.