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Lady Inez:
Here's the schedule of events: https://static.coreapps.net/dragoncon19/documents/4f019d71816b2582716609117e2a2a90.pdf

There's no direct "Women Stars of Fantasy/SF" mirror panel that I can see, but there are many "women of..." panels on genre subjects. It's really hard to see the overall atmosphere or agenda of the event as exclusionary given the mix of panel subjects and invited speakers, regardless of the reason for this specific panel's naming. In the interest of assuming good/naive intentions in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I'm going with attempt to be merely descriptive backfired or didn't want to just say "Stars of Fantasy/SF" when, in fact, the panel only had a handful of writers, so qualified the title with something these stars all had in common as possible explanations.

KurtinStGeorge:
I thought naming the panel "male stars of fantasy" was one of two things.  Either it was a rather lame ironic joke, poking fun; well, trying to poke fun, at current zeitgeist of "wokeness" or SJW concerns; or, it could have been due to availability and scheduling constraints of guest authors, that DragonCon organizers realized that any really well known female authors who were invited to appear, simply wouldn't be available at that day and time. 

I looked at the DragonCon website last weekend and saw that Patricia Briggs was a guest author and that Mercedes Lackey had to cancel her appearance.  (I didn't memorize the guest list.  Those are two authors whose work I know, so I noticed their names.)  Assume for a moment those were the only really well known female fantasy writers who were expected to be at DragonCon this year and Patricia Briggs was set to do a different panel at the same time.  In that case you have to call your panel something, so without really thinking about how it might be perceived, the title "male stars of fantasy" sounded like an accurate description of the panel and nothing more.     

morriswalters:
Whatever they meant, the outcome was a shout out to the fact there were no women on the panel.  Implying that there are female stars, which of course there are.  But that they weren't represented.

magnuskn:
"Her-storically Speaking: Meet the Women of War"
"Her-storically Speaking: The Lost Women of History"
"A Woman's Guide to Rebuilding Civilizaton"
"Women in Illustration"
"Awesome Women in Digital Media"

That's just panels from one third into that guide, after which I gave up because DragonCon apparently is a black of hole of a thousand panels. Quite overwhelming.

In any case, is anybody offended by those women-centric panels staffed by (surprise) only women? Of course not. So why would anybody be offended by an all-male panel? Though the panel was clearly not about anything male-related, anyway, except the gender of the participants.

In any case, if somebody here got offended at the title of the panel, please also get equal-opportunity offended at the title of those panels mentioned above. Otherwise, go a little more spare on the hipocrisy.

GWPfark:
Could be they caught the current statistics on depression and serious increase in male suicide. There has been a major malaise that has really hit 18-30 year old men. The New York Post did an article on it and presented it as a womens problem. I won't go any further into TT areas, but I am thinking maybe it was just a move to make some people feel better.

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