Posts tagged ‘misogyny’

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 ...