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 Bookshop: Articles about "fake geek girls" provoke online backlash 
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bookshop:

Just a day after noted comics critic Gail Simone blogged her frustration with the misconception that girls don’t read comics, CNN posted a double serving of backlash against girls in geek culture on its GeekOut! blog, drawing perplexed responses from fans across the Internet.

The first…

Geebus…a “pretty” gal can be as geeky a comic nerd as a anyone else who loves the medium of comics, sci fi, fantasy, and gaming. As a “plain Jane” I loooove the variety of fans and hope that the environment of exclusion disappears.

(via hellotailor)




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    i’m tired of the misogyny of geek culture and how so many men involved with it believe that women are there as tools to...
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    You know, if he’d just said “Man, you know what sucks? People who look down on geek culture but capitalize on it anyway...
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    … I must then not be a girl since I read comics on the bus to and from work today. And that wasn’t even the first time,...
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    anyone expected CNN...publish anything relevant. And second, I really hope
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    Geebus…a “pretty” gal can be as geeky a comic nerd as a anyone else who loves the medium of comics, sci fi, fantasy, and...
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