Dear Ashy Neckbeards, It’s Definitely Y’all and NOT Us…
Disclaimer: I’m not going after all the blerd and nerd boys in the community. Just the problematic ones who tend to overshine the actual good ones and make life hard for us [...]
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When Conventions Choose Business Over Ethics
By now, most people are aware of the backlash in Hollywood over decades of sexual harassment, assault, and rape. Social media is littered with #MeToo, bringing new awareness [...]
Politics and Geekdom – Fantasy is NOT an “Oasis” from Reality
We see this situation all too often: Someone brings up something social or political in a geek forum, only to have someone criticize them. “This is a place to escape the [...]
The Whining Male Detractors of Female Representation in Video Games
Carl Benjamin and Dave Cullen. These names probably don’t mean a lot to most of you, but to hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, these two individuals represent the [...]
Convention Staff! No More Harassment Apologists!
As we’ve said before, it seems that every con season, stuff like this has to keep getting brought up. And every con season, we keep talking about it, because it seems as if [...]
Women Are Intersectional, Who Knew?!
Being a woman is hard. This statement is overused, but there are days where it’s one of the truest statements you can make about women. For as long as I can remember, [...]
Sexism in Gaming – It’s real, whether you believe it or not
Ah, gaming. The “boy’s sport,” right? After all, the stereotype of gamers is usually pasty, white males sitting in basements rolling dice or mashing controller buttons. [...]
I’m a Female Nerd, not Your Fetish
When I was scrolling through an alternative nerd group on Facebook, a guy posted a picture of a guy and girl gaming together and he said he was looking for his “gamer [...]
What does in-game bigotry say about us as a society?
I was playing Skyrim the other night, and I noticed that there were some things in the game that reflected a lot of what has been going on recently in the United States of [...]
Dear Arrow…goodbye
Arrow finally found the straw that broke the camel's back... [...]
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