I'm too tired and incoherent-with-disgust to comment on any of this, so have a link:
Four Recent Reasons It Sucks To Be Female And Geeky. The IGN contest thing just... Aaaaugh. How is that in any way okay?! Or legal?! And if I see yet another article that is all, "Hey! Look! There are girls at Comic-Con, it must be because of Twilight!" I will seriously scream. Actually, I might just scream now.