- Open Mic: The Field Glass Ceiling | ABA Blog: In hobby science as well as professional science, women get the short end of the stick.
- E3 Inspires Woman-Bashing On Twitter | Forbes: “Misogynist gamers are at it again, attacking Anita Saarkesian for making a simple observation.”
- [Trigger Warning] Why “Just let it happen, it’ll be over soon” is a rape joke, and extremely problematic | Gamers Against Bigotry: “Let me help: “just let it happen, it’ll be over soon” absolutely is a rape joke, and it is normal trash talk, and that is the problem.”
- Gaming the System | Bitch Media: “The syllogism often runs: Games are played by men, men only want to play as other men, therefore all games should be about men. Not only does this ignore women gamers, it lends fire and fuel to stereotypes that make men more resistant to identifying with women—squandering the unique power of a medium based on interactivity and virtual embodiment, and contributing to an empathy gap between men and women.”
- “Where Am I?” – a brief, personal look at LGBT in geek culture | Ms. In The Biz: “What if, in each thing all of us made, we did one thing that broke a prejudice barrier?”
- Joss Whedon Is Pissed That There Aren’t More Superheroine Movies: “even if you’re not one of the Whedon faithful, you’ll probably love how, during a Daily Beast interview, he expressed his personal frustration with the lack of female superheroes on film.”
- Meet the Teen Girl Superhero Squad Who Fight Racism and “Nerd Discrimination” | Bitch Media: “This teen girl squad collaboration was facilitated by a community art program in Winnipeg that matched artist Jennie O with an after-school “Grrlz Club” to work on an art project that focused on community identity.”
- Slut-Shaming and Concern Trolling in Geek Culture | io9: “Last month, science geek and costumer Emily Finke attended a sci fi convention dressed in a screen-accurate uniform from Star Trek: TOS, where she was met with microaggression, mock-concern and men intent on outing her as a Fake Geek Girl. So she decided to write something, “because I haven’t caused enough flame wars on the internet this week.””
- Kickstarter for All-Female Gaming Miniatures Reaches Goal in 30 Seconds | The Mary Sue: Could do without the armored bikinis, personally, but there are still some great non-bikini designs here.
- The Geography of Hate | floating sheep: “Ultimately, some of the slurs included in our analysis might not have particularly revealing spatial distributions. But, unfortunately, they show the significant persistence of hatred in the United States and the ways that the open platforms of social media have been adopted and appropriated to allow for these ideas to be propagated.”
- Silicon Valley’s Awful Race and Gender Problem in 3 Mind-Blowing Charts | Mother Jones: “What struck Bracy about the tech-crazed Bay Area, she recounted Thursday in a talk at the Personal Democracy Forum tech conference, was the jarring inequality visible everywhere in Silicon Valley—between rich and poor, between men and women, between white people and, well, everyone else.”
- Depends on, well, you know. | Indexed
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There was a thought I had regarding this post:
http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/28/but-women-are-an-advanced-social-skill/
and things like it, and the open thread is closed, so I hope it’s okay to post here. (It’s where the contact page suggests if the open thread is closed, so that’s what I’m guessing.) Often, people on the autism spectrum are recommended some sort of “social skills” type books. However, some of the stuff in those books can be rather suspect when incorporating gender, and it can be difficult to pick that out (I would submit that if you can determine precisely what advice in the book is good and what should be ignored, perhaps you don’t need the book in the first place). I would be very interested in the existence of a social-skills book in this vein that was both aimed at the development of social skills generally (perhaps with an ASD target audience) and explicitly feminist (as opposed to learning social skills regularly, and then proceeding to learn what about them is wrong). However, I don’t know who could write such a book, or if one already exists (I’ve tried looking for things like “feminist social skills”).
Wonder why you don’t see more sci fi films written by women? @SusanDelCampo has written a groundbreaking analysis gender & spec script sales http://buff.ly/1810FqU