Honestly, geek dudes calling people with extensive personal, professional & historical knowledge of female geeks liars - because if the DUDE has never seen them, then they can't POSSIBLY exist - is the ultimate in, "What are you gonna believe: what you see or what I tell you?"
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Why? Because, aside from the inherent discounting of geeky female *creators* this claim exhibits, you're basically telling a person, "Your stated lived experience is different to mine, which means you're either lying, an incompetent judge of your own life, or ignorant."
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And no, people who claim female geeks exist are NOT making this exact same argument about their detractors, because we all know goddamn well that all-male geek enclaves exist. That fact isn't in dispute: we're just pointing out that they're not the norm or the majority.
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If I tell someone, "You're not alone," and they reply with, "I am, because you don't really exist the way you're claiming to," those are not equivalent arguments. Like. This is 101 shit, people.
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I don't have the time or energy to write out an entire history of women in fannish & geeky spaces - it's late, and I need to talk myself out of watching another episode of My Hero Academia before bed - but goddamn, YOU ARE ON THE LITERAL INTERNET, YOU ASSHOLES, FUCKING GOOGLE IT.
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