It really amazes me how this kind of attitude towards women is par for the course in this inbred little world called the comics industry. And these people get away with it too because, at the end of the day, tales like these go no further than the walls of a comic con where it's deemed "acceptable".

Since ms. nevermore999 is a journalist, rather than leaving this anecdote as a livejournal entry, why not compile these incidents into an article or an expose. Pitch it to newspapers or perhaps women's magazines with national circulation.

Let's see how these people explain their behavior to a much larger mainstream audience.