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

[darkknightjrk]

I think Avatar has the rights now.

[cainofdreaming]

Okay, it's official. Cthulhu has woken and gone into comics business.

[darkknightjrk]

And coincidentally enough, Necronomicon, the Alan Moore Cthulhu tentacle rape comic, is also by Avatar.

They also had FreakAngels, though, so you gotta take the good with the bad.

[kamino_neko]

Neonomicon. I have no idea if there's a comic called Necronomicon, and if there is if it's also problematic, but if so, it should be bashed for it's own issues, not those of Neonomicon.

[darkknightjrk]

...Well, I'm an idiot. Either that or those Evil Dead movies were locked in my head more than I thought.

[kamino_neko]

Well, it is a pretty easy mistake to make, so I certainly wouldn't say 'idiot'. Just felt the correction should be made. >_>

[cainofdreaming]

Boom!, who also did Fall of Cthulhu, apparently has a four issue series by the name. I think they had also a longer running comic with short Mythos stories too which was pretty good.