Given the community, I thought this might be of interest

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An interesting article about male privilege in nerd-dom on Kotaku.com

I want to tell you a story.

A few years ago, I was dating a girl who was decidedly not nerd curious. She tolerated my geeky interests with a certain bemused air but definitely didn't participate in ‘em… not even setting foot inside a comic store on new comic day. She'd wait outside until I was done… which could be a while, since I was friends with several of the staff.

She came in the store exactly once, after I'd explained that no, it's a pretty friendly place… well lit, spacious, organized and with helpful – and clearly identified – staff members who were willing to bend over backwards to make sure their customers were satisfied.

She was in there for less than 4 minutes before one mouth-breathing troglodyte began alternately staring at her boobs – evidently hoping that x-ray vision could develop spontaneously – and berating her for daring to comment on the skimpy nature of the costumes – in this case, Lady Death and Witchblade. She fled the premises, never to return.

When both the manager and I explained to him in no uncertain terms as to what he did wrong he shrugged his shoulders. "Hey, I was just trying to help you guys! She couldn't understand that chicks can be tough and sexy! Not my fault she's a chauvinist," he said.

And that was when I shot him, your honor.

There's a deal of analysis after that, but I suspect the above might well ring a few bells of experiential recognition.

And for legality, a little objectifying of the sort I enjoy

Comments

[fifthie]

Omg men are JUST as sexualised! I mean, look at the weirdly proportioned over-muscular apelike Batman model in Arkham City - clearly he was designed with the sexual fantasies of fangirls first and foremost in the developers minds'!

...That's the kind of thing I've come to expect from the Kotaku comments.

Whoa what are you saying literally no woman anywhere ever can be attracted to a strong guy with muscles WAY TO JUST ASSUME TO SPEAK FOR THE SEXUALITY OF EVERY WOMAN EVERYWHERE IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD

WHITEY

SICK-AMORE

you MISOGYNIST

[whitesycamore]

Hey, I like muscular men as much as the next person, but that Batman is just put together *all wrong.* Anyone who disagrees is a SHILL for the PATRIARCHY.

Hunt them down, there shall be no clemency!