A long time ago in a linkspam far, far away… (20th July, 2010)
- The Sims Just Did This Totally Racist Thing:
In the newest town, there is a black family with a single mom of two sons who has worked her way up by being a cook… I’d be willing to give it a pass if it didn’t involve every stereotype possible.
- Courtney Stoker is looking for suggestions about forums she can visit to study gender and geek spaces on the Internet.
- The WoW funeral raid – four years later:
Once Alliance guild Serenity Now got word of the event, they decided to crash the Horde e-Funeral… But rules were broken on that day, social rules that fall outside the artificial boundaries of “in-game†rules.
(‘ware problematic comparison of antisocial behaviour to “savages”.) - Moose J. Finklestein, member #2 of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA), talks about sexism in LOPSA and her actions against it, together with pushback: The Comment I Regret Deleting, and, Sexism In LOPSA (pt 1), Random Complaints == You Have Ruined Our Org – Sexism in LOPSA (Pt 2).
- Brianna Laugher hosted a Wikichix lunch at the Wikimania conference, a “Wikiguys” lunch was announced in reaction.
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A friend recently linked to this article about a Nerd Girls reality TV show. On the one hand, if the approach works at keeping more women in STEM fields, good, I guess. On the other hand, the “brains are beautiful, geek is chic, smart is sexy” thing makes me deeply uncomfortable (and made me deeply uncomfortable when it was directed at me back before I left the STEM track). I’d much rather an approach that makes it clear women’s participation in STEM is worthwhile because of the value of their contributions, not because it makes women more attractive to guys. And then there’s the whole “girls” used for legal adults thing. . .
I’m attempting to podcast about warcraft and feminism. I’m still learning to podcast and talk about topics that are important to me, so I know I made some mistakes, but I thought someone here might be interested. I was on as a guest/co-host for one show.
A lot of the feminist stuff is in the second half. I rambled and got off topic with the what is privilge/what is geek feminism but hopefully I got the points across well enough.