My New Best Friend

[eilowyn]

Have you heard about Marie-Pierre Renaud? She's known as The Geek Anthropologist, and she blogs about fandom from the perspective of a cultural anthropologist. I contacted her for my paper on "Fake" Geek Girls that I'm doing for a gender and communication class (and hopefully turning into a conference paper for next year), and I've spent the last

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[shipperx]

Yeesh!

http://thegeekanthropologist.com/2014/03/31/the-fake-geek-girl-project-2/

Thing I notice is that these appearance rants about the 'validity' of the geek girl all relate to whether she would 'date' them (and how they physically view her).

Erm... yeah. Their issues are showing.

How in the hell is her
a) appearance
b) her greek cred
at all dependent on whether she would date these guys. She's not an object and she is not there for them.

Misogyny indeed.

Manning thinks women who pose as nerds reinforce negatives stereotypes about nerdy men as socially inapt

Hah. He may not realize it, but his 'rant' does that reinforcing all on its own. Jeez. Issues!

[eilowyn]

It all comes back to the "nice guy" trope, doesn't it?

[shipperx]

That was my first thought too and I always want to say to them that in reality... They aren't as 'nice' as they think they are!

[red_satin_doll]

That was my first thought too and I always want to say to them that in reality... They aren't as 'nice' as they think they are!

Now I'm the one who needs the like button!

I have found that in real life, the guy who insists to me what a nice guy he is? Either isn't really a nice guy, or isn't confident that he is one. truly "nice" people don't need to advertise it, they just ARE.

[eilowyn]

Oh, and I heard about the Farscape movie! You must be pleased!