like jesus fucking christ you *are not helping here*
Weird, because I was a sophomore in high school in the 1990s too and i loved Star Trek and I'm a girl and oh my god http://qz.com/823162/a-new-study-shows-how-star-trek-jokes-and-geek-culture-make-women-feel-unwelcome-in-computer-science/?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=07220ea70b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-07220ea70b-57457129 …
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that's probably a terrible anecdote, only there for grabbing attention, but the larger points in the article are VERY spot on.
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Funny, I knew a lot of girls in high school who were Star Trek/Star Wars fans. Even married one. IT is part of her job now.
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and even as early as the 1990s, the idea that D&D was for boys was pretty out of date.
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my parents weren't OK with me getting into "geek culture" because they thought it'd give me social adjustment problems. sigh
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i can see how they got there, but aww :(
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Right. It's not the sexism or the objectification of women! It's the nerd jokes. *headdesk*
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