Geoffrey MillerVerified account

just what i was hoping for, more fetishization of male "genius"pic.twitter.com/VTnIe8hHux

i think i'm going to turn this into an ongoing thread of gendered representations of genius in pop culture. here's "crazy genius" will smith, selling down jackets in the pages of vogue magazinepic.twitter.com/8aPlTt3LdS

i've always been fascinated by how much of the "golden age" of prestige TV was focused on representations of "genius" male antiheroes. tony soprano, the genius-but-conflicted mob boss; don draper, the tortured genius adman; walter white, the dying genius meth chemistpic.twitter.com/sMJfbdNGv3

and of course, speaking of our good friend bill gates, the mythology is rampant in the world of tech. i would argue that the marketing of "genius" was crucial to each of these three men's careers, and that each in their own ways has been revealed to be...less thanpic.twitter.com/5gORNMYKxO

elizabeth holmes was such an interesting case in part bc she's one of the only women to once be enshrined in the same mythology. and she did it explicitly by adopting the persona of her male hero, steve jobs, and by adopting male-coded traits, such as a lower voice.pic.twitter.com/cyDkavCq0W