I love the SyFy Channel Saturday night movies. The goofy effects, the giant monsters, the sometimes wooden acting, it's all a delicious cheese sandwich to help me relax into the one night of the week where I don't feel rushed to accomplish ALL THE THINGS before I go to bed. I try to judge them by what they are, and not by what I want them to be:
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One of my best friends was denied entry into a Magic the Gathering tournament because 'women are no good at this and we don't want to waste our time explaining how to play.' She later came in second at a tournament, but was 'disqualified' on grounds that were never explained.
So yes, this is the sadly common mentality among geekdom, but it doesn't make it right, nor does making women the 'foils' to geeks ring true. There are many women gamers and fans of shows like Firefly, Star Wars, Star Trek out there and it's time 'geekdom' woke up to that fact.
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