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… Who is calling rubbish on that overly self-congratulatory poster. Courtesy of Reddit, I came across this delightful response to the original. Same message that I spoke of, but in far fewer words:
A fifteen picture graph, showing fifteen different women divided into three rows. The first two rows are the same as the original image, but the bottom five are Princess Leia from Star Wars in her famous “metal bikini” from Return of the Jedi, Leeloo from The Fifth Element in a skimpy white outfit, Power Girl showing off her infamous “cleavage window”, Juliet Starling from Lollipop Chainsaw, and an Orion Slave Girl from Star Trek: Enterprise. Beneath the five new pictures is a caption, “Sorry Geek Culture, No Free Passes”
Bravo to the creator of this witty and very appropriate response. That’s how you call ‘em out on their hypocrisy and selective memory.
God forbid people take pride in positive role models.
Who says that I’m not taking pride in them? I’m simply questioning the assumptions behind what “makes” a good role model, not tolerating the slut-shaming and policing of women’s behaviour and attire, and explaining why geek culture’s not off the hook for sexism.
Psh, you’re obfuscating the real issue, Leah. Instead of attempting to dissect a persistent and endemic problem with geek culture you should endeavour to approach the matter with the most base understanding of the power dynamics which define said problem, isolate a singular miniscule aspect of the discourse, twist it so that it bears an (at best) remote semblance of relevance to the matter at hand and then proceed to blow it completely of our proportion for the benefit of an inconsequential conflation.
I mean, duh.
I have bit my tongue for long enough, but I am utterly failing to see the correlation between Tryhards Trying To Coopt Autistic Culture Culture’s ideal role models and positive ones.
That is probably why I posted a half-dozen images of characters or performers who fit better with autistic culture AND provide better role models. Go figure.
I would like to see a third or fourth panel of images representing autistic culture. You could have five panels of Quorra and still get something far more appealing than anything so-called “geek culture” regurgitates. Or bites off and swallows (seriously, do they even care what the word “geek” really means?).
Oh, and I have some of my own comments to add. Could you be so kind as to provide a source URL for the original of this new three-row image?
It was found on Reddit, so the image I posted is the original.
http://wp.me/p2iISl-o8 will be of interest (apologies in advance for being so shameless about it but this remains the best way I know to share it).
You know, I thought the exact same thing about the original (2 column) image–what about all the ridiculous sexism within geek culture and the characters who end up on Escher Girls? Thanks for posting this! I’m trying to find the OP too but not having much luck.
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