Guys addressing geek misogyny
Jul. 26th, 2012 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfThis, re: recent horrible misogynist shit in gaming culture - http://t.co/fPZRRAWU
And John Scalzi on the more "benign" version:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/
On the one hand, utterly awesome that good guys are confronting this shit. On the other, it sucks that they have to and that women calling out the same shit don't get anywhere near the attention or credibility.
And John Scalzi on the more "benign" version:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/26/who-gets-to-be-a-geek-anyone-who-wants-to-be/
On the one hand, utterly awesome that good guys are confronting this shit. On the other, it sucks that they have to and that women calling out the same shit don't get anywhere near the attention or credibility.