For everyone going WTF at my tweets and RTs over Make Magazine CEO @dalepd's attacks on Naomi Wu (@RealSexyCyborg), a short thread... 1/N
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This is going to be my understanding of things, so please feel free to chime in with additions/corrections if they're not misogynist bs. 2/N
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TL;DR: the "maker" scene's establishment have long been excluding Naomi from coverage/events b/c they want to be "family friendly". 3/N
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What that means: they don't want to be associated with a woman maker who appears in videos with skin exposed. 4/N
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OTOH they seem to have no problem with women appearing as "entertainment" at events. This is not actually hypocrisy. 5/N
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Because "family friendly" is not about expression or non-expression of body image or sexuality. It's about presenting gender roles. 6/N
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"If you dress 'slutty', your career path is booth babe" is exactly the sort of "family friendly" message they eat up. 7/N
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It’s shocking and sad that any event besides a porn convention has booth babes anymore.
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Maker Faire Shenzhen had them but didn't have Shenzhen's main(/only?) local female maker.
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