Re: [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 _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss