Posts tagged ‘misogyny’

One of my male friends logged in on his mother’s account, and was horrified to discover the messages that “Sheila” was getting from complete strangers and mentioned so on our channel. The women of the channel shrugged: it was always like that for us.

A woman refuses to date a Magic: The Gathering geek, hilarity, by which we mean hideous misogyny, ensues.

[Trigger Warning for abduction, assault, rape and treatment of women as commodities] Duke Nukem Forever’s “Capture the Babe” CTF variant requires you to abduct a woman to score. The mode is revealed in the latest ...

This is a guest post from Christine Cheng. She is a research fellow in politics at Exeter College, University of Oxford. In a previous life, she studied systems design engineering and was student government president ...

[Trigger Warning: this post discusses trolling behaviour. Many links contain screenshots of threats, insults, sexual harassment and general profanity.] From the Frag Dolls blog: Less than a month ago, FatUglyorSlutty.com was just a twinkle in ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Why are male IT geeks less successful in attracting women than other males, on average? Why are there few women in IT? Among male geeks, a popular explanation ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! In Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, chapter You Just Ask Them?, Richard Feynman frequented a bar and desired to have sexual intercourse with the women there. He discovered ...

For the Linux geeks: Lyz discovers that Computer Engineer Barbie has a penguin oursin responds to “Why don’t you just hit him?” with another argument against: If this sort of thing happens within a social ...

Trigger Warning: This post deals with the École Polytechnique massacre and violence against women.

Cross-posted at From Austin to A&M. s. e. smith wrote this amazing post a while back at Bitch’s Push(back) at the Intersections: “I Just Don’t Like That Many Female Characters.” And I read it and was ...

The Haecken miniconf at linux.conf.au (January in Brisbane, Australia) has extended their Call for Papers until October 22. Sir, Can You Help Me With This?: a transman comments on becoming a goto guy: This is ...

The Haecksen women’s miniconference at linux.conf.au (Brisbane, January 2011) is calling for submissions, closing very shortly on September 24. Abbie Heppe gave a critical review of Metroid: Other M, and the backlash was immense and ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Most male geeks believe that they are subverting traditional masculinity by reclaiming and self-identifying with the term “geek”. For most male geeks, geek identity is defined partly as ...

John Scalzi’s post on the failure mode of “clever” is “asshole” seems awfully obvious given the number of really appallingly terrible pickup lines that people’ve tried to use on me as a geek woman. Just ...

Lightgetsin rants in The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while: Also, the next person to tell me to get a Kindle . . . really shouldn’t. The Kindle occasionally reads ...

The ch!cktionary brings us The Five Types Of Haters Female Bloggers Encounter (And What To Do About Them) (warning: anti-women and other hateful comments are quoted extensively in the post) Is your geekdom more fundamental ...