Posts tagged ‘sex’

Ask a Geek Feminist: Does sex sell? Does sexism sell? Where’s the evidence for this?

I think geek sexuality is an awesome thing. But geeks also are prone to weird social thinking, some of it a reaction to the ungeeky mainstream, some of it their very own invention.  Here’s some common misconceptions that can fuck up geek sex.

What the hell. It’s geeky. And this is a fairly new (published 2006) finding about komodo dragons. To quote from Wikipedia: On December 20, 2006, it was reported that Flora, a captive Komodo dragon living ...

Russell Coker writes about conferences designed for people on the autism spectrum. In summary NTs seem to think that Autism Spectrum Disorders are only about socialisation, not realising that for many people on the Spectrum ...

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 ...

Valerie Aurora responds to Holla Back concerns: On the one hand, this is great news! If people are afraid of being falsely accused of street harassment, then they think it’s a bad thing. This certainly ...

Matt Zimmerman asks Who’s afraid of Ubuntu Women? Issue 17 of the GNOME Journal is available, the first with a unified theme: “Women in Open Source”. All articles were contributed by women. (Journal issues don’t ...