and you will know us by the trail of linkspam (22nd May, 2012)

• Gaming As Women’s wundergeek explains why she is a woman who games, not a gamer “girl”
• Gina Trapani at CNN: In war for talent, ‘brogrammers’ will be losers
• Why we need to keep talking about women in tech: coverage of sexist comments by the emcee at a Dell summit
• Legos, spaceships, breasts: another difference between Lego sets marketed towards boys and girls – complex construction
• Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency has a Kickstarter for here new project about Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. She met her initial goal of $6,000 in under 24 hours and has now expanded the project by 5 episodes and the goal is $15,000.
• The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius: a profile of evolutionary biologist Margie Profet
• Follow up links to Straight White Male, The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
• Life’s ‘Lowest Difficulty Setting’: John Scalzi Explains Privilege to Nerds – an interview with John Scalzi
• “Lowest Difficulty Setting” Follow-Up – follow up from John Scalzi with some comment rebuttals
• “So What if Privilege is the Lowest Difficulty Setting?” A Response to Scalzi’s Post – addresses the “but so what should I DO???” questions being asked (whether in good faith or not.)

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Thanks to everyone who suggested links.

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