Geek Feminism Blog
Geek Feminism Blog

Posts tagged ‘fail’

2012.03.14   A Jedi Needs Not Games To #Fail: Ableism, Fat Hatred, Heterosexism, and Misogyny in Star Wars: The Old Republic   (30)

The fact that I’ve grown accustomed to the whiff of garbage that comes with almost every game on the market doesn’t mean I can’t smell it, though. So while I’m having a heck of a lot of fun playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, I am also slapping my forehead a lot.

Full Story »

2010.04.19   Geeks and non-geeks   (38)

I’m having a great time at DrupalConSF! A question for the NodeOne folks passing out Drupal: The Card Game… Which one of these people is the “non-geek”?

Full Story »

2010.04.07   Quick hit: PAX’s Girls and Games fail   (8)

Our dedicated linkspam spies have dug up a lot of critical takes on the “Girls and Games” panel at PAX East 2010, which sounds like it was a how-not-to for discussions of women in geek ...

Full Story »

2009.08.27   Women in FLOSS, tell Bruce Perens you exist   (1)

Unicorn check-in time for women in open source! Bruce Perens seems to think that women aren’t passionate about open source software: What I meant was that there are more women who hold technical jobs than ...

Full Story »

2009.08.27   Quick hit: How not to get yourself invited to a girl geek dinner by me   (8)

My friend @orenmazor tweeted this: way to increase visibility for the girl geek dinner by challenging the male geeks to figure out a way in http://is.gd/2Cc3F The guy in question (Will Armstrong) first talks about ...

Full Story »