“A bad day for most geeks would be being the butt of jokes,” says the punk-band-playing straight-A brainiac Malcolm (actor Shameik Moore) at the center of Dope, a film that’s as much about questioning identity as it is owning it.
Over the weekend, New York Comic Con saw the usual crowd of geeks, nerds, cosplayers, and other pop culture enthusiasts. But it also saw a huge shift in the discussion about representation in comics and other media.
The Doubleclicks made their video about geek girls, and it is rocking! Was that nerdy? I don't give a beholder's ass.
Tired of dudes implying/outright stating that you're a fake geek because you have a vagina and therefore can never physically be balls deep in geek culture? Well, so are these ladies, and they're doing something about it.
Some of the Bay Area's sex workers are also self-described geeks and marketing whizzes who use Game of Thrones t-shirts ("Winter is Coming") and savvy social media marketing to grow their businesses and establish agency in an industry where workers are too often either victimized or criminalized.
In fantastic news for unemployed Australian women, a commerce student recently posted an extremely long (on purpose, as to "filter out the less keen people") job description on the job search site "Seek." He's looking for the right secretary/driver for his upcoming media/arts publishing company, which will be a mix of …
Female Comic Con attendees have a lot of bullshit to contend with — booth babe jokes, depressing "women aren't funny" quotes from Joseph Gordon-Levitt — but before they can deal with all that, they have to get dressed. Until a few years ago, it was difficult for comic aficionados who also have vaginas to find…
I don't mean to blow anyone's mind here, but Felicia Day is very pretty. She has a nice face and beautiful hair and probably doesn't get judged for being a geek based on appearance alone. That said, her devotion to geekdom is genuine — she's written and starred in five seasons of The Guild, a webseries revolving…
Depending on how much you watch the show, Jersey Shore's transformation of a few unknown guidos and guidettes into an international fame plague was either the best thing or the worst thing ever to happen to entertainment. Now comes the good (or bad) news that the same company that unearthed Snooki and Pauly D is…
Now that TLC has presented its fascinating/funny/exploitative portrait of virgins, it's moving on to one of the most commonly mocked segments of our society: Geeks. As a nerd who wishes her fiancé could make such an impressive wookiee noise, I'm certainly not the target audience for this trailer, but I suspect we're…
I am thirteen and at my first comic/sci-fi expo. I'd had no idea what to expect, and I'm stressed out. The place is packed, and everything seems to be anime and everything seems to cost money. It's the height of Dragonball-Z's popularity in New Zealand and there are Gokus competing in Kah-me-ha-me-ha competitions in…
Geek culture has come a long way, baby: In our parents' era, you were merely a dweeb, dork, or nerd. These days you can be a film geek, design geek, music geek, food geek, theater geek... the posibilities are so expansive that a love of the show Glee makes you a Gleek these days. Personally? I'd like to consider…
If you told 15-year-old me that once you graduate from high school, life becomes a movie where the geek girl achieves more than her tormentors, I doubt I would've believed you.
"Where are the lady geeks?" asks Fast Company blogger Jeffrey To. Over the course of six months, he attended dozens of hackathons, and found that women were sorely underrepresented.
When 7-year-old Katie Goldman was teased about her Star Wars water bottle being "for boys," her frustrated mother took to the Internet. Soon, Katie had a galaxy full of supporters.
Although: The Expendables did beat Scott Pilgrim at the box office. Still, she has a point. But it's tough to tell whether she thinks this is a good thing or bad thing.
In this video, a woman balances books on her head while solving a Rubik's cube and reciting Pi. That's probably some geeks' fantasy, but we'd rather see her lose the books and wear a Battlestar Galactica t-shirt. [Random Good Stuff]
A survey of 2,500 women revealed that our "secret turn-ons" include facial stubble and a geeky personality. And more than half of respondents eschew the muscles in favor of a cuddly man, despite what they say in public. [Mirror]
Are geeks and feminists allies or enemies? One feminist geek tackles the question head-on with her praise of a Lord of the Rings heroine — but geekdom has more to offer than its (few) female characters.
"He may be bit of a geek," a recent Cosmo piece begins, "but the guy you've always thought of as 'just a friend' could be the best boyfriend you've ever had." Or, you know, he could be a total jackass.
