You require more linkspam (31st July, 2012)
- Monash car loses battle of the sexes: “This may be news to the rev-headed students but the only chassis that matters in motor sport is the one belonging to a car.”
- New York Magazine Deems Naturally Curly A Bad Investment For No Reason | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture: “NaturallyCurly doesn’t fit the pattern – and Roose’s casual dismal underscores exactly why minorities, women of color in particular, have such a hard time breaking into the consciousness of the tech world.”
- 5 Prejudices That Video Games Can’t Seem to Get Over | Cracked.com: “Some developers seem incapable of making a female video game character who isn’t submissive, emotionally vulnerable and entirely dependent on men.”
- My thoughts, exactly. » Moar Womenz at DjangoCon US!: “If you’d like to go to DjangoCon 2012 in Washington, D.C. — or know a talented developer who does — but cannot attend due to financial hardship, please apply for financial aid through DjangoCon.”
- New councillor, two fellows created at InternetNZ AGM | ComputerWorld New Zealand: “Software engineer and self-proclaimed “geek” Brenda Wallace has been elected as the latest new member of InternetNZ’s ruling council.”
- Readercon: The Verdict | Genevieve Valentine: “But if I go back, I will go back knowing that some reports of harassment are more valid than others, and that if someone gets harassed there, they should be sure they are receiving the kind that falls under the con’s sexual harassment policy.”
- Jim C. Hines » Another Con, Another Creep: “If you actually care about the fact that this person feels uncomfortable, and you want them to stop feeling that way? Change the behavior that’s making them feel uncomfortable.”
- Nick Mamatas – The Readercon Creeper: “Offering only one consequence—banned! for! life!—and then failing to follow through means that there either is no real policy, or that the policy only applies to special people.”
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Matthew Jude Brown:
July 31st, 2012 at 2:18 pm
That Cracked article makes me mad because it defends good general points with the worst choice of specific examples possible. Many are completely, factually wrong. The author did not do his research at all, and has certainly never played any of the games in question.
An article about racism in gaming in which almost all the examples are wrong is just going to help convince gamers that the argument is full of shit, because the examples are.
DejaV:
August 1st, 2012 at 9:11 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/sexual-harassment-in-online-gaming-stirs-anger.html?_r=2&ref=us
John:
August 2nd, 2012 at 3:19 am
The Register reports Booth babes banned by Chinese gaming expo.
AMM:
August 2nd, 2012 at 6:10 am
Somewhat OT, but I don’t know where else to report it:
did something change with the Web server? The format of the GeekFeminism pages is completely different from 2 days ago — a (mostly blank) screen with articles down the middle, not to mention some sort of element covering up the left side of the first article.
Ellie:
August 2nd, 2012 at 8:42 am
http://geekfeminism.org/2012/08/01/a-few-blog-changes/
Though I had to go find that link from my reader, I couldn’t initially find it from the homepage here, so I don’t know what’s up with that. I now see that it’s in the left sidebar under a heading “ephemera” but not listed with the regular posts.
Ellie:
August 2nd, 2012 at 8:45 am
Oh, also, if you leave a comment on that other thread letting them know what browser you’re in, they can investigate the bit covering up the article. I’m not seeing that problem in Chrome.
AMM:
August 2nd, 2012 at 1:24 pm
OK, so there _was_ a change, I just didn’t see the report (it wasn’t a regular article, I guess.) And I did find the “ephemera” section, way at the bottom.
I don’t mind the change — IMHO, simpler is better (I’ve always created my web pages by writing straight HTML using “vi”) — but I wondered if WordPress had suddenly decided to “unsupport” my browser, like Google did. (Given that Google has been going over to the Dark Side, that may be just as well…)
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