Science Fiction/Fantasy organizations, such as conventions, writer’s groups and others have all had to reckon with diversity and inclusion issues in recent years, as well as with blowback from folks who feel it’s perfectly fine for their organizations to stay lily white, and excuse it by saying that they’d have to cater to “special interests”… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #635 – Diversity and Accountability
This is a thing I say a lot. Usually about the media, or other folks. Today I’m saying this to me. It isn’t every day that you see real, honest to gods proof that something you didn’t do twenty years ago had super negative repercussions, concrete repercussions, that you can’t fucking ignore if you’re a… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #631 – Do Better
OrcaCon was awesome! Thank you, whoever paid for my membership. If I owe you something, please remind me, because if I agreed to do a thing during a migraine, I have zero memory of it. OrcaCon is brilliant and important because it is a space where non-cis, non-white, non-dude, non-heterosexual gamers are explicitly welcome. Donna… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #630 – OrcaCon 2020
The way media depict mental illness is problematic at best, and criminal at worst. I’m struggling with how to begin this, because there are so many problems with it, and some of them are specific to certain illnesses. Some are more general. I think the biggest misconception about people with mental illness is that we’re… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #627 – Mental Illness in Media
Happy New Year! Welcome 2020! Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, 2019. I did not think I was going to like the Mandalorian. Given the fanboy worship of the character of Boba Fett over the past few decades, my hopes were not high for this show. Yes, I… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #626 – Review – Mandalorian (first three or four episodes)
You know that post I did about not actually being over Marvel? Here is the Star Wars counterpart. I am not militant about spoilers. I think if a movie is ruined because you know what happens, it isn’t a very good movie. It’s like how movies that rely on jump scares are not actually scary.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #612 – Star Wars
So, I vented about the comic book fuckboys who are driving me me batshit right now. And their kissing cousins, the Star Wars fuckboys who I am also done with. But today, after talking over things with the Geek Husband What Rules, I wanted to talk about the fact that EVERY fandom has those people.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #604 – Every Fandom has them…
Turns out I’m just “over” fuckboys bleating about it. Ok, that’s not entirely true. I am completely and utterly OVER the Russo Brothers. Man, I had such high hopes for them after Captain America: The Winter Soldier. That movie was fantastic. But each film that they have done since has been successively worse, and more… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #603 – I Thought I was Over the MCU…
Hey, so in the big list of random shit going through my head right now, I’m really thinking of going ahead and reviving the GGR podcast over on Himalaya. It seems like a fairly friendly podcast network. And the podcasters I listen to who use it seem to like it. I’ve never done the podcast… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #602 – Random Things and Emotional States
For the Geek Husband What Rules and I life is one big improvisational theater. I do try to rein this in at work where I have to pretend to be a reasonably functional adult. But when it’s just he and I or even if I’m by myself, especially in the car, the gloves are off.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #597 – Other People Don’t Do This?
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