Posts tagged ‘stereotyping’

Five-and-a-half year old Maya has decided she doesn’t like cars because she wants people to like her. Her mom wants to hear from geek women who like robots, grand adventures and still have friends and wear pink and go dancing.

Cross-posted at From Austin to A&M. Today is International Women’s Day. A day that is dedicated to ending oppression against women, achieving gender equality, and celebrating women and their achievements. For feminists, IWD should also ...

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 ...