[sudo-discuss] 'Fake Geek Girls' Paranoia Is About Male Insecurity, Not Female Duplicit

[GtwoG PublicOhOne]

Andrew, YOs-

Do those dynamics occur?  Hell yes.  Thanks for calling out that stuff. 

Smart people aren't immune to the common human faults of lower-level
brain wiring and socialization: status games, power-plays, backbiting,
cruelty, implicit orthodoxies, dogmas, self-contradictions against
stated principles, and a host of "taboos" that forbid challenging much
of the rest of it.  Misogyny is one axis of nastiness and there are many
others. 

Culture is the ultimate hacker challenge: a complex ad-hoc network of
quantum supercomputers called brains, in mobile platforms called human
bodies, running the Human Operating System overlaid with lifetimes of
social patches, and in major need of bug fixes. 

-G.

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On 13-05-29-Wed 6:05 PM, Andrew wrote:
> This is an article I came across lately. Check it out. Here is an
> excerpt:
>
> "For me, then, the "fake geek girls" meme doesn't so much call into
> question the bona fides of the women in question as it calls into
> question "geek culture"---real or otherwise. Eddin praises geeks for
> being wiling to "challenge cultural norms"---but are you really
> challenging the norms of a capitalist society when you define yourself
> by your relationship to the crap you buy?
>
> I'm not saying that people shouldn't love the art they love. But I am
> suggesting that the mean-spiritedness of geek culture---a
> mean-spiritedness that is often, but by no means always, directed at
> women---is not an accident. A culture that values knowledge and access
> above all things is going to be a culture dedicated to hierarchy and
> to power---to defining who is in and who is out. Such defining
> involves, and is meant to involve, a good deal of antagonism,
> score-settling, back-biting, and cruelty. There's not much point in
> defining yourself as the knower if you cannot define others as those
> who do not know."
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-girls-paranoia-is-about-male-insecurity-not-female-duplicity/267402/
>
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