Posts tagged ‘sexism’

A tool to help fix sexism in tech, short fiction, Sweden’s gender-neutral pronoun, female characters, a gamer explanation of privilege, women in Magic, and sexism in comics.

“When I read WotC’s article what I saw was Jon Schindehette going through one of the early cycles of trying to understand sexism. (…) I wish he had gotten further along before he wrote a public article… but he has my empathy as to why getting there takes time.”

Ask a Geek Feminist: what do you do about older sexist writing that is still visible on the ‘net?

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

Ask a Geek Feminist: If you’re a woman in CS, does it ever get better? If it got better for you, where and how did that happen?

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.

Here’s the thing, boys and girls: I don’t get this crap anywhere else I choose to invest my time. This is very much about atheism. It’s also about the more general skeptical community, of course, but atheism is a big part of that and getting bigger.