Anime Age Discrimination in SC?
I woke up this morning and found this article in my local paper: Comic Book Fan Claims Discrimination Basically, this 43-year old anime/manga fan wanted to attend an anime club meeting at a Hilton Head, SC public library. However, the club was for teenagers only. He had become excited about the club when he saw a flier that said "anime/manga fans welcome!". But when he arrived he was told he couldn't attend because the program was for teens. The guy is saying that because the age limit was not posted on that particular flier (one of several different fliers) that he was discriminated against. Now, I run an anime club through my local library and I've had this problem once or twice with local adults. I can't let them into regular meetings, but the marathons I throw once a season are open to the public. Is this man right? Is the library right? Discuss.

I've noticed these clubs pop up all over the state lately, at the library. Even here we have one and it's only for teens. And in a way it is discriminatory, but there's nothing stopping this man from starting a club himself. Besides.. why would he want to hang out with a bunch of teenagers? Though I feel his strife. The anime scene is getting older and there really is no place for a lot of us to go but to stay held up in our living rooms or travel out of state and spend tons of money to attend a con. If it weren't for the meetings we have here, I would basicly have nothing at all. I can't afford to attend cons.

Noticed such an age related club was setup not long ago at one of the Spartanburg public libraries. http://news.greenvilleonline.com/blogs/link/2007/12/parenting_event_jams_jam_1.html Just noticed, this is probably the one Andromeda was referring to.

Yeah, stumbled across that one almost a year ago. They normally don't meet during the summer if I remember correctly.

I think it is mostly the fact that he was humiliated. The people there probably treated him as though he was a pediphilia or something.