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4PointOh
09-17-2009, 04:08 PM
Interesting article about women and science-fiction up at Newsarama written by Vaneta Rogers:

http://www.newsarama.com/film/090917-fangirl-3-gender-war.html
Gail Simone
09-17-2009, 04:57 PM
I'll have to read this, Vaneta Rogers is truly awesome.
Free-Man
09-17-2009, 05:01 PM
Interesting article about women and science-fiction up at Newsarama written by Vaneta Rogers:

http://www.newsarama.com/film/090917-fangirl-3-gender-war.html

Dammit! I'm working on a similar piece! This is well written though...:redface:
shanejayell
09-17-2009, 05:39 PM
LOL

As a anime fan we've had more girls than boys at many cons. It's not a big deal, there, tho I suppose it is in the larger comics fandom.
parsimony
09-17-2009, 07:15 PM
The idea that girls and women are only *now* staking a claim to geek culture isn't the whole truth, really. All you have to do is google the definition for "slash" or "Mary Sue" to find evidence for the fact that women have been hard-core Trekkies (and other kind of geeks) for a long time.

Maybe it's just that female geeks and male geeks don't always gravitate to the same places to share their geekery. Maybe it's that girls and women don't get the opportunity to share and be open about their geekery as much as guys do.

I think that's happened recently, and especially with the Twilight fans at Comic-Con, is that the fangirls in that particular instance were just too loud and numerous to be ignored or remain unnoticed anymore.

Personally, I suppose I've been a "fangirl" of one thing or another since I was a little kid, but it was only once I started to use the Internet that I was really able to connect with people who were geeky about precisely the same things as I was.

And although I know it's a big sexist world out there, I've usually ended up in geek-spaces where I'm not an anomaly because I'm a woman.
parsimony
09-17-2009, 07:19 PM
LOL

As a anime fan we've had more girls than boys at many cons. It's not a big deal, there, tho I suppose it is in the larger comics fandom.

Same with Harry Potter conventions. Always fewer boys/men. Someone even made a "Campaign to bring boys to [the convention]" group on Facebook at one point. :rolleyes: