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Revenge of the Feminerd: What PC Games Teach Girls
The media pays a lot of attention to violence in kids’ video games, but not so much the negative messages around gender stereotypes in games for tween girls. In an article in WIRED magazine, Tracey...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: Feminism? There's an App for That
I was a little hesitant to write about iPhone apps because it's definitely an issue with a really class-specific impact. Smartphones are expensive, but even though smartphones are still out of reach...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: Board Game Colonialism
One of my biggest geek hobbies is Euro boardgaming. For those of you not familiar with Eurogames, the general difference between Euros and more traditional American boardgames like Monopoly is that...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: Geek Peeves
Today I list my top five feminerd annoyances, including the lack of LGBT characters on Star Trek, sexist comics at The Oatmeal, and “chainmail bikini”-type video game costumes for women. In no...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: X-Men Goes Retro
I was really excited to catch X-Men: First Class this weekend. The previews looked amazing and since the X-Men universe has some great women characters, I couldn’t wait to see how they were portrayed,...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: Barriers to Women in Science
It seems like recently women’s underrepresentation in science and technology is finally being seen as a serious issue. It’s a more and more frequent topic of conversation in the feminist blogosphere,...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: For Girls Who Wear Glasses
This goes out to all those girls who’ve heard the message that intelligence and geekiness is antithetical to attractiveness. I was in Grade 10 when I decided to ask out a guy from English class. He was...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: Nerd "Hyperwhiteness"
Reading Benjamin Nugent’s book American Nerd in preparation for writing this column I came across a reference to research by UC Santa Barbara linguistics professor Mary Bucholtz, which argues that nerd...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: Feminerd Miis
In this post I’ve taken some of the suggestions you gave me in the comments of my first post at Bitch of your feminerd role models, and I’m going to help you figure out how to turn them into Miis for...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Everything has its season: ET had to go home, Sisko had to go be with the Prophets, Yoda had to become one with the force, Professer Xavier and Magneto had to go their separate ways, and so too this...
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How Steampunk Screws With Victorian Gender Norms
Two bearded ladies take a stroll at a Louisiana steampunk festival. Photo credit: infrogmation, via Creative Commons.During the quarter century since novelist K.W. Jeter playfully invented the term...
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"Orphan Black" is the Sci-Fi Thriller I've Been Waiting For.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if the most popular sci-fi on television didn’t involve a ton of misogyny? And had real, complex female characters? I’m looking at you, The Walking Dead. You dropped the ball so...
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'Tis the Season of Macho Summer Blockbusters, With No Superheroines in Sight
Where will you not see much of Rogue this summer? In the new X-Men movie, sadly. Every time I type “superheroine” into Microsoft Word, it’s underlined with a red squiggle to tell me that there’s no...
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"X-Men: Days of Future Past" Rewrites the Comic's Original Storyline to be...
The X-Men series proves to be a franchise that, like its most iconic protagonist, regenerates. On the face of it, X-Men: Days of Future Past is one of the more enjoyable superhero movies of the last...
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How "The Big Bang Theory" Represents Women in Science
The Big Bang Theory is currently the most popular TV show on Thursday nights—and it's the only sitcom that tosses Schrödinger’s Cat into casual conversation. During its seven seasons, the show has...
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Nerds Unite at Seattle's Geek Girl Con: Photos.
Geek Girl Con took over downtown Seattle’s convention center this weekend for its fourth annual celebration of the creativity and cultural contributions of nerdy women everywhere. Hundreds of people...
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Not All Nerds
It’s a strange time to be a nerd. Recent conversations—ranging from responses to the UC Santa Barbara shooting earlier this year and recent reexaminations of such key texts as 1984’s Revenge of the...
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Meet the Awesome League of Female Magic: The Gathering Players
Tifa Robles at the gaming tables where she and others teach women how to play Magic: The Gathering.This past week at Geek Girl Con in Seattle, I met other women who had seen every episode of The...
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