Ok, to be clear, I’m not asking if you LIKE them. I honestly don’t care. I do. I know many people who do, and many people who don’t. To each his own. But someone commented on “Geek Girls Rule! #191 – Sexism in Geek Culture” asking me what I thought of the geek cheesecake out… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #223 – Sexy Geek Girls, Yay or Nay?
I know, I know, didn’t I just lecture you guys about this? Well, no, actually, it’s been a couple of years, and someone who found that old post on tipping, sent me a link to a graphic that explains tipping: why you should do it, when you should do it, and how you should do… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #222 – Tipping. Yes, Again.
I talk about Go Play NW, Westercon, MonsterHearts and Cards Against Humanity, and a question for ya’ll.
I will be at Westercon this weekend, starting tonight. Tonight at 7 pm, in Cascade 3 and 4 I’ll be talking about Gaming: Gender Issues in Tabletop and Videogames Saturday at 1pm in Cascade 6 will be Gamemastering: One-shot Adventures vs. Campaigns Saturday at 4pm in Cascade 5 will be Game Design: World Design Hopefully… Read More Geek Girls Rule! Newsflash
So, Go Play NW was this weekend, which means I got little sleep and gamed a lot! I had a fantastic time, finally met a few people I’d been talking to online for a while, and got to hang out with old friends I only see once a year. Following hot on the heels of… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #221 – Go Play NW!
So, I went to see Avengers for the third time last night! And got to meet a charming gentleman who said he read my blog (Hello!!!!). I took my friend Kayla because her boyfriend hadn’t taken her yet (in all fairness their work schedules are completely opposite right now). So we went up to the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #220 – Women Love Widow.
I talked about this a bit on the podcast, but I’d like to elaborate some on what I said here. One of the siren calls of the “Nice Guy ™” is that women only like Bad Boys/assholes. And when we swoon over villains like Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Jareth (David Bowie), or the Sheriff of Nottingham… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #219 – What’s So Hot About Villains?
You can download the latest podcast here. I gribble about The Avengers, the Layers of Sexy, why girls like villains, Feminist Frequency, the new Tomb Raider, Fuzzy Nation, Discount Armageddon and Blackout. Also, the update on where we’ll be.
So, Anita Sarkeesian, who does the Feminist Frequency Vlog has decided to do a series on the tropes of women in videogames. Now, she’s touched on this before, talking about Bayonetta and the ad campaign surrounding that game. But this time she really wants to get into the meat of the roles of women in… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #218 – Now With More Misogyny
Ray Bradbury passed away on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Many people, myself included, came to SF/F fandom because of Mr. Bradbury’s writing. In fact I remember very well the very first Bradbury story I ever read. “The Veldt” appeared in a collection of SF/F/Horror short stories that my Dad gave me when he was done… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #217 – RIP Ray Bradbury
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