[sudo-discuss] 'Fake Geek Girls' Paranoia Is About Male Insecurity, Not Female Duplicit

This is an article I came across lately. Check it out. Here is an excerpt: "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? 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." http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-girls-paranoia-i… -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 http://roshambomedia.com