drnerdlove:

roachpatrol:

-male nerds seem agree that being nerds makes them less attractive to normal women

-so why would normal women pretend to be nerds to be more attractive to men who are already less attractive than normal men

-things like tv shows and books and videogames are designed to be fun and accessible to a fairly wide range of potential consumers. they are products being sold for money, not some kind of exclusive sadkid narnia club you only get into by being pure of heart and testicle

-hey you know what’s not fun? exclusionary sexual harassment

-why would normal women enter into hostile spaces just to look attractive to the hostile men making those spaces so fucking toxic for women, when being attractive to those men is only going to invite vicious, resentful sexual harassment? we all fucking know this. all geeky women know this. the only geeky women who don’t know this are young teens, and they get fucking taught. 

-you know that ‘boo hoo highschool was traumatic people were mean to me just because of who i was and what i liked’ gauntlet that male nerds think entitles them to be shitheads forever? female geeks never get to exit that gauntlet, thanks to male geeks. it goes on, and on, and on for us. and yet: we’re still fucking here.  

-hey, you know what? there are women who only exist to artificially pander to male nerd’s baser instincts. they’re fictional. they’re the characters in the shows and games and comics that male nerds go goddamn ham over. they’re the fictional female fuckdolls men keep fucking pumping out by the truckload, for each other.

-so anyway, if a woman says she’s a geek, she’s a geek. if she’s hot and posts a picture of her sticking a goddamn game controller up her personal business and says ‘i’m a geek!’ she’s a geek. if you don’t like her, she’s still a geek, and also, you can go fuck yourself. 

This is awesome and I want to add two points.

- complaining that somebody is doing something for the attention (whether they are or not) implies that attention is somehow a bad thing.

- Attacking a woman - a cosplayer, a gamer, whatever - for “doing it for the attention” is a way of excusing oneself from looking. It’s not that the observer is attracted to her or is aroused by her, it’s something that she’s doing to him, so clearly it’s her fault.  Which is, y’know, absolute bullshit.