...says Fox News contributor:
Wow! Just wow!
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Even after all these years the number one thing searched in Bing is still 'Google'
— Bart Brejcha (@bartbrejcha) January 25, 2013
Fake geek girls - allegedly women who show up at geek events, possibly while hot, with not enough geek cred for you.This all seems to have started with an article on Forbes (Really, Forbes? Yes, Forbes.) called Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away. In this article, the author talks about being a “geeky girl” growing up and how she now sees “pretentious females” now posing as geeks when they haven’t put the time in to justify the claim.
The Fake Geek Girl thing bugs me. Because I do feel there is an underlying sexism at play.If someone is a poser, then it doesn’t matter if they are a woman or man. But, is it even bad to be a poser? Isn’t a poser just someone whose trying to figure out what everyone else already knows? Aren’t they really an outcast too? As outcasts trying to fit it, doesn’t that make them more geeky (since being a social outcast is technically a major component of geekdom)? The answers to this series of rhetorical questions are as follows: no, yes, yes, and yes.
One of the sad sign of our times is that we demonize those who produce, subsidize those who refuse to produce, and canonize those who complain. --Thomas SowellThis is a particularly disgusting statement. First, those who produce and those who do not is a matter of perspective. What do you tell the father of 3 who has relied on a job for most of his life, who then lost his job because the company who he worked for was mismanaged by executives and had to shut down? What do you tell that same father when the same guys that ran his company into the ground got huge bonuses "so they wouldn't leave" before operations were completely shut down? If the father had stock in that company, he lost on two fronts because of those executives.