FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

“In early 2006,” it says of me over on the About page here, “he founded Can’t Stop the Serenity, an unprecedented annual global event consisting of locally-organized charity screenings of the Joss Whedon film Serenity to benefit Equality Now, which to date has raised more than $170,000.”

After coordinating the first year, properly handing it off to a new global coordinator for the second year, and sitting on the steering committee advising its third year’s coordinator, I have stepped down from any further involvement in the global planning, effective immediately.

In the end, my efforts and arguments in favor of trying to maintain a discrete and specific identity for the event do not appear to reflect the general consensus of the pool of organizers. There is nothing to be gained, at this time, from belaboring my points on that issue.

I do believe, and have expressed as much, that an event cannot and should not be everything.

An individual who stays home to run on their treadmill would not be considered to be part of Race for the Cure, and a band who played on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in April of 1969 instead of August 1969 would not be considered to have played Woodstock. I believe that certain positions taken during this year’s planning (some of which had been settled already in the aftermath of last year’s events only to suddenly resurface) are the equivalent to the above untenable examples.

That said, whatever its form and features, and however much I personally might believe its core identity is being diluted, the global event of course will continue to raise significant funds for Equality Now. In the end, that is the point.

But the divergence of viewpoints on the nature and identity of the event has become too great for me to continue to participate.

I’ve changed my signature on the discussion forums for global planning to indicate my departure, and to end on a simple message, one on which I will end here as well: Carry on, good luck, and have fun.