This Week In Girl Geek: 1/1/10 OMG!

Posted at 10:58 AM Jan 01, 2010

By Kiala Kazebee

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By the time this post goes live it will be 2010 and I can only imagine you will be reading it from a live stream beamed at your eyeballs while you wait for the next pneumatic tube to take you from one Hoverstation to the next. Oh the glorious future which awaits us all in, um, tomorrow! Unicorns genetically hatched in labs for our test tube babies to ride all over the false gravity of the New Mars Colony! Robot uprisings! Lots of them! The internet will go rogue, enslave the human race, harvest our brain pans and take over the universe!

It all sounds so glamorous!

Anyway, as I type this with my fingers (ugh) from my interweb portal device (so antiquated ugh again) and dream of the scientific wonders which will greet us in the new year, I can only point your soon to be wireless eyeball devices to these, um, interesting stories written on the soon to be sentient living internet alien thing. Godspeed to you good humans. I wish you luck in your future world. See you at the Hoverstation!

Here's what happened in geekiness this week:

  • Brenda Laurel has created a video game for little girls. Also, she seems to dislike feminists. I AM SO CONFUSED.
  • Feministing reports on a study which says women gamers play more intensely than men but tend to keep the intensity on the DL when playing with said men. Because being aggressive is un-feminine I guess? Or is it we don't want to risk hurting a dude's pride with our mad violent skillz? Or is the study bunk?
  • Spoiler alert! A new Wonder Woman action figure is on the shelves and she looks a wee bit different.
  • G4 is still doing this and I am still emotionally wounded by it. Why doesn't G4 care about my feelings?
  • Jeff Katz (Booster Gold co-author and former Fox Studio VP) has launched a new website called Geek Week. There is a "women" category. It is pink. It is the last tab. It is filled with posts about Tyra Banks and jabs at the "webfeminists" of Jezebel. I have a problem with this. Dear Jeff, please email us. We have some ideas about how to fix your shiny new website. THIS IS YOUR OLIVE BRANCH. Love, Kiala.

Comments

melissalion said:

Seems to me that most of those posts in the Women tab of Geek Week are written by men. Though they could be women using men's names what with the internet anonymity or whatever.

Kiala said:

I think he's got a couple of women blogging for the site but they don't seem to much of a female perspective. Women who don't like Jezebel are always suspect to me. Mens' women. Women who don't trust other women. That kind of thing.

Kiala said:

To "have" much.

Have.

I would blame my hangover but I didn't go out last night.

SJ said:

And what the poster Kiala said above is a perfect example of why I don't like going to Jezebel. That site seems to run with the notion that "our feminism is the only type of feminism" or "you are with us or your against us". I'm a female and a feminist and focusing on what women not to trust and instilling the seeds of paranoia within feminist circles does not help. We should be focusing instead on actual issues facing women and not made up ones.

Kiala said:

And what is your definition of "made up ones" SJ?

SJ said:

The women who don't like Jezebel and women who don't have many female friends paranoia that seems to take place of any actual issues. The site propels itself as embracing feminists' philosophies but it doesn't care for diversity in opinions. People who dare to have a different opinion are put in the same category as actual people who have a prejudice against women. The site embraces infighting instead of collaborative healthy discussion that allows all view points.

Kiala said:

I don't consider that (women with no female friends) to be a "paranoia". I consider it to be a symptom of a larger, very real problem.

As far as infighting goes, I've not witnessed it.

Stick said:

Wait, so I have a problem because I have no female friends? That's a little effed up.

Kiala said:

Well, it depends on the reason you have no female friends @stick

Paul said:

I had the sound off when I watched it, but it looks like the number one woman of geek culture is a pin-up girl?

Lauren said:

Awwww, that's so sugar sweet or something else-

Kiala's post has 10 comments. WHOOPS! five of them are her own.

So......Kiala, you wrote yourself 5 comments, and Melissa, wrote in one.....making 5 out of 10 are your own and the BGF took time out to type in one?

That's how you relevant onesies do it in the big leagues? Ooooooo, sharpen lead.......people.


e.b. said:

I stopped reading Jezebel because they had a few posts that contained the same sort of behavior they would criticize which would have honestly been fine with me. I know they have several different writers and different perspectives are good but the way they handled the situation when the commentors got riled up was awful with those fake rude apologies. Also they way they got angry when commentors just did their own thing with the April Fools Day articles. Bleh. But mainly I just don't relate to the Jezebel writers. So I don't like Jezebel.

Marie said:

Hahahaha, to paraphrase "I don't trust women who don't trust women." ?

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