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Do those dynamics occur? Hell yes. Thanks for calling out that
stuff. <br>
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Smart people aren't immune to the common human faults of lower-level
brain wiring and socialization: status games, power-plays,
backbiting, cruelty, implicit orthodoxies, dogmas,
self-contradictions against stated principles, and a host of
"taboos" that forbid challenging much of the rest of it. Misogyny
is one axis of nastiness and there are many others. <br>
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Culture is the ultimate hacker challenge: a complex ad-hoc network
of quantum supercomputers called brains, in mobile platforms called
human bodies, running the Human Operating System overlaid with
lifetimes of social patches, and in major need of bug fixes. <br>
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-G.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-05-29-Wed 6:05 PM, Andrew wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This is an article I came across lately. Check it
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<div>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'times
new roman',times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23.1875px">For
me, then, the "fake geek girls" meme doesn't so much call
into question the bona fides of the women in question as it
calls into question "geek culture"—real or otherwise. Eddin
praises geeks for being wiling to "challenge cultural
norms"—but are you really challenging the norms of a
capitalist society when you define yourself by your
relationship to the crap you buy?</span>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'times new
roman',times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23.1875px">
I'm not saying that people shouldn't love the art they love.
But I am suggesting that the mean-spiritedness of geek
culture—a mean-spiritedness that is often, but by no means
always, directed at women—is not an accident. A culture that
values knowledge and access above all things is going to be
a culture dedicated to hierarchy and to power—to defining
who is in and who is out. Such defining involves, and is
meant to involve, a good deal of antagonism, score-settling,
back-biting, and cruelty. There's not much point in defining
yourself as the knower if you cannot define others as those
who do not know."</p>
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roman',times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:23.1875px"><a
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href="http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-girls-paranoia-is-about-male-insecurity-not-female-duplicity/267402/">http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-girls-paranoia-is-about-male-insecurity-not-female-duplicity/267402/</a><br>
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