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HumbleRich
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Hi all,
I just want to rant about something I have noticed now that I am making progress in my reboot. The sexualization of nerd and geek culture. I am not going to point fingers. This isn't a political post. Secondly, this is not an anti-woman post. I am not against women in geek/nerd spaces. As an aspiring science teacher, one of my passions is getting more women interested in science. Now that I have those frames out of the way.
At what point was it decided that geek culture would be sexualized? This phenomenon is most obvious on new media such as Youtube and other video sites. Do you like Comic books? Well you're in luck because our new host wears low tops? Do you like keeping up with the latest paleomtological discoveries and dinosaur news? Our new reporter just loves showing off her chest.
It is downright offensive how many women presenters in media dress and behave. I have seen female hosts outright flirt with male guests during knterviews, actions which, if reversed, would be called sexual harassment. When did these women ask the public and viewers if they could behave in this way? The fetishization of geek culture is offensive, as is the connotation that because geek culture used to me almost completely insulated for men, that that made it bound to sexuality. On the contrary, geek culture was often a way for men to seek refuge from expectations related to their gender.
I'll get my dinosaur and science news from online news sources from now on. Youtube is getting too "progressive" for me.
I just want to rant about something I have noticed now that I am making progress in my reboot. The sexualization of nerd and geek culture. I am not going to point fingers. This isn't a political post. Secondly, this is not an anti-woman post. I am not against women in geek/nerd spaces. As an aspiring science teacher, one of my passions is getting more women interested in science. Now that I have those frames out of the way.
At what point was it decided that geek culture would be sexualized? This phenomenon is most obvious on new media such as Youtube and other video sites. Do you like Comic books? Well you're in luck because our new host wears low tops? Do you like keeping up with the latest paleomtological discoveries and dinosaur news? Our new reporter just loves showing off her chest.
It is downright offensive how many women presenters in media dress and behave. I have seen female hosts outright flirt with male guests during knterviews, actions which, if reversed, would be called sexual harassment. When did these women ask the public and viewers if they could behave in this way? The fetishization of geek culture is offensive, as is the connotation that because geek culture used to me almost completely insulated for men, that that made it bound to sexuality. On the contrary, geek culture was often a way for men to seek refuge from expectations related to their gender.
I'll get my dinosaur and science news from online news sources from now on. Youtube is getting too "progressive" for me.