I do not see how that makes a difference. I do not relate somebodies career choice to how important what they say is. It's not like the geek community has some kind of hierarchy, therefore what those at the top says represents everybody else.Andrew_C said:Except this wasn't just "Some Tool" this time, this was a fairly prominent comic book artist Tony Harris [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Harris_(comics)] . There is a link to objectionable post on his blog under the comic. I won't dignify it with another link.Legion said:Basically some tool made a post about fake geek girls a little while back, some other tools (almost certainly the same kind of people we block when we game due to all the childish, abusive crap) and it has been blown way out of proportion.
I am not sure what exactly caused it to be dragged back up again though.
He works in the industry, and wrote a bunch of misogynistic crap. He deserves all the flak that he gets for it, as do the idiots who support him, but it doesn't represent the culture as a whole, and it is not worth the ridiculous "OMG gamimg is so sexist!" response that it is gaining.
We do not assume America as a whole has a problem with racism due to some of the Obama hate.
We do not assume that Feminism has a problem with men due to some of the man haters.
We do not assume that all Muslims are secret terrorists because of the extremists.
In fact, people who do assume the last two are often called out on it frequently as being sexist and racist themselves.
Although this sums up my feelings on "geek culture" as a whole. Feel feel to replace geek with nerd or gamer.seerbrum said:The fact this subject is even given the slightest of mental energy... is so unbelievably sad I might die from grief... I'm fucking serious.
I don't understand. To put it bluntly. I really don't fucking get it.
Being nerd or a geek, or whatever is not a club. There is no secret handshake, there is/was no meeting. It isn't even a fucking a blimp. It's this word, a term, whether an insult in the past or a term of endearment in its present form. No one owns "Nerd" no one owns "Geek". No one died and made any one person Duke of Geek-dom, So I kind of wish you fucking nerds would shut the fuck up and go back to your geeky life style. Happy.
This is more painful then watching "Punk Culture". where its not punk to be punk anymore... or something or only real punks listen to X,Y,Z and if you don't you aren't punk...
I dunno it just sounds like a bunch of people to lazy to actually contribute anything to the culture, so they invent a problem. A straw man or straw girl, to beat up on. Something to be angry about because cause they have nothing really to angry about.
Listen she's hot, she's at a comic book con. She's there for her own reasons, and if you get your heart broken, well idiot that's on you. Grow up, deal with it, learn that PEOPLE generally suck, and move on with life.
It's no more complicated then that. Everyone every where, has face this problem. Girls who "like" sports but don't know anything, just there to meet guys. Like guys who have no business at the club, don't like dancing, or music, there to meet chicks. People generally use other peoples for whatever they want too and they don't need special circumstances to do it. It's a complete none issue and an insult to geek culture for it to even matter. Wake up idiots, there is no such thing as a "fake nerd". Never will be, get over it, you are not special, or unique.
And I'm ashamed that I wrote that much on the subject.