Ok, so for DECADES the clarion call of the cis het white dude nerd has been, “If you don’t like it, why don’t you make your own?!” (Imagine me saying that in the whiniest, most nasally voice I can manage. I still have a cold, I can get really nasally right now.) So, a group… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #432 – This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
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?
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
Mostly I fussed over the panel track again at Big Bad Con so that’s what you’re going to hear about. Friday night’s “You Don’t Look Like a Geek” with Tanya DePass, of I Need Diverse Games, Jamahl Brown, Kristine Hassell, and Brie Sheldon went super well, where they talked about their experiences being nerds and… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #413 – Big Bad Con Review
I did the panel Saturday night at Geek Girl Con with Pleiades McRae and Berlynn Wohl. We compared the novel of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and to a lesser extent the Hulu adaptation, and Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick. For those of you who are unfamiliar, The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #410 – Handmaid’s Tale, Bitch Planet and the Politics of Women’s Bodies
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”—Malcolm S. Forbes. Once upon a time, the Geek Husband What Rules and I worked in a dance club. He was head of security and occasional DJ. I was a bouncer, a barback and a bartender.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #409 – Trying to Hold People Accountable
Several years ago, the Geek Husband What Rules and I were on a panel about games and gaming groups, and I cannot remember what the exact question was that we were responding to, but we told the audience that they did, in fact, have the right to not game with people who did things that… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #408 – Everyone Can’t Be Welcome
Ok, so over the weekend, in Charlottesville, VA a Neo-Nazi drove his vehicle into a crowd of counter-protestors to an “alt-right” (Nazi) demonstration. This is after a group of Neo-Nazis beat up a group of counter protestors at the University of VA the night before, and beat up more counter-protestors during the day. Now, most… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #394 – Why we Hate your Insistence on Playing Nazis.
So, by now I’m sure you’ve all heard the shit storm stirring around Geek Girl Con. Five volunteers from the Con Ops team quit, and on their way out behaved incredibly unprofessionally, and also misleadingly. Their email and postings on the way out accused the Executive Director of harassment, sexism, racism, kink-shaming and body-shaming of… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #393 – Looking at Whom you Give the Benefit of the Doubt
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