Posts tagged ‘stereotyping’

Cori Roberts is founder of Gameinatrix.com and remaining founding member of Gamer Girls Radio, and has been involved in gaming media for over 8 years. She’s currently obsessed with the MMO Fallen Earth and anything ...

Cross-posted at Restructure! There is sexism in tech culture. However, I continue to love tech, because I think of the sexism as a separate, unnecessary appendage to pure tech. I cannot think of sexism as ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! I have been a geek for most of my life. However, my geek identity is rarely recognized in meatspace interactions, probably because I am female. You would expect ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! When top technology venture capitalist John Doerr decides which startup company to invest in, he consciously and deliberately chooses white males over women and racial minorities: “That correlates ...

Take Back Halloween! costume resources showed up in the linkspam recommendations. We love Halloween. We really love Halloween. We think it’s cool that there’s one day a year when people can dress up as anything ...

Say hello to Ms Spam-Spam! We’ve put in a special account for linkspams to make it more clear that linkspams are a group effort here. All the old linkspams are now listed with this account ...

Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills, Large Study Shows These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college and beyond. A second portion of ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are “nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature”, an idea often proposed and upvoted in Hacker ...

Amber is a Capital Markets Technology consultant who currently works on Wall Street making trading platforms suck less. If she’s not online kicking ass in PvP, you can probably find her somewhere on the Lower ...

This post was originally published at 天高皇企鹅远. There are some new Barbies doing the rounds, and they’re amazing: I don’t even know what’s going on here. This toy website tells says that Japan Ken wears ...

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 ...

Metaneira is a 30 year old female currently in school for a master’s in public administration focusing on the non-profit sector. Meta has been gaming since she could hold a joystick, and has been blogging ...

This Ask a Geek Feminist question is about stereotype threat: What can I do when stereotype threat is playing games with my head? To give an example, I once had to take an IQ test ...

Belligerent customers asking for tech help intersects with sexism. At the Border House, Quinnae asks Ain’t I a Gamer? and Alex rounds up two posts on Olivia Munn, a frustration for many female geeks and ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math ...

This is a modified version of a post that was originally published at Restructure! In Drawings of Scientists, seventh graders draw and describe their image of scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. BEFORE ...