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Whatever holiday you celebrate or don’t, have a good one. Spend it with people you actually like who like you back. Life’s too short to be avoidably miserable. From my household of Pagans, Atheists and Agnostics, to your household of whatever you may believe. We do Yule and Giftmas. Mostly we order a bunch of… Read More Happy Holidays from the Geek Family at Nordholl*.
WotC has begun suspending players from DCI (formerly Duelists Convocation International) for behavior violating their Code of Conduct, including engaging in open sexism and misogyny, such as “ranking” women they would like to “draft” into Magic on the basis of looks, and just in general being assholes. This link here has the details. Now, some… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #427 – Kudos to Wizards of the Coast
So, you’ve seen the light. Either you were dragged kicking and screaming out into it, or you stepped out of the shadows yourself to apologize for having victimized someone in the past. There are several articles out there telling you how to apologize for for sexually harassing/assaulting someone. However, I want to talk to you… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #425 – What to Expect After you Apologize for Sexually Harassing/Assaulting Someone
So, this is an unboxing of the second and third Curios and Conundrums boxes from Mysterious Package Co. And some bonus content about one of my favorite children’s books.
A lot of this is stuff I’ve covered in the past. Step up and call harassment and bigotry out when it happens in front of you, or when someone tells you a story of a thing they did that wasn’t good. You don’t have to get any more explicit than, “Dude, not cool,” or “We… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #423 – What Can I Do?
Right. So I was starting another intense post, and then decided I needed a break from all the angry. So you’re going to get something else that makes me happy. I fucking love conspiracy and paranormal podcasts. I grew up surrounded by books filled with real ghost stories, UFOs, Bigfoot sightings, past lives, and other… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #422 – Brief Happiness Break.
So, all these revelations about the bad behavior of men, knowing how women are actively discouraged from coming forward by our society, what does it mean? What does it cost us?A lot. Every woman or person of color or queer person driven out of gaming by harassment or bigotry is someone whose perspective our games… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #421 – What Does it Cost Us?
So a continuing theme in the continuing story of assholes getting called out for sexually harassing women, both in gaming and in the broader world, is that we have spent years, decades, centuries with women being roundly disbelieved any time we talked about being assaulted or raped. This is the result of a combination of… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #420 – I am Not Eve.
So the other day I did a #Nerdy9th over on G+ about Horror. I’ve read horror pretty much as long as I’ve been reading. I seem to recall being in 1st or 2nd grade when I found my first spooky stories book. My folks were really into true ghost stories, so I read a lot… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #419 – My Love Affair with Horror
Now, I am the last person to come out and tell you not to blog while angry. I mean, I am not a giant hypocrite. I blog angry all the time. However, as I’ve gotten older and, I hope, wiser, I have learned that there are two ways to blog angry. The first way, the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #418 – Two Kinds of Blogging While Angry and What Women Face When Making Harassment Accusations
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