A few links on the state of the gender culture

Content warning: several of these are NSFW and they all have sexism in them. There's also some homophobia in the next-to-last one.

Professional porn actress Stoya has two posts on harassment at conventions and street harassment at her Twitter. Money quote (so to speak) from the first one: "Let me remind you that in a room of pornography fans, who have actually seen me with a dick in my mouth and who can buy a replica of my vagina in a can or box, I am treated with far more respect than I am walking down the street."

Branded tells us that fat acceptance, especially for women, is a plot on the part of the 1% to sell more fast food. MovieBob tells you why else not to see it at the Escapist.

Santiago Ortiz put together a scatterplot of male editors vs. female editors of Wkipedia, for a selection of pages on various topics. Note that the scales are not the same - the x-axis (male) is by 10s, and the y-axis (female) is by ones. The gray line on the left is the parity line. Apparently, Weird Al's viewpoint character is not only "White & Nerdy," but also most likely male.

Only partially about gender issues, mostly making fun of Rick Santorum, but if you haven't read Jim Wright's "Also, Nazis!" column at Stonekettle Station yet, you should.

And Io9 has an article about the state of harassment & sexism at various geek gatherings (ReaderCon, TAM, and DefCon are the three focal points). I haven't read the comments; could someone braver than I tell me how many of them are variations on "Why is this here and not on Jezebel?"

A few links on the state of the gender culture

Content warning: several of these are NSFW and they all have sexism in them. There's also some homophobia in the next-to-last one.

Professional porn actress Stoya has two posts on harassment at conventions and street harassment at her Twitter. Money quote (so to speak) from the first one: "Let me remind you that in a room of pornography fans, who have actually seen me with a dick in my mouth and who can buy a replica of my vagina in a can or box, I am treated with far more respect than I am walking down the street."

Branded tells us that fat acceptance, especially for women, is a plot on the part of the 1% to sell more fast food. MovieBob tells you why else not to see it at the Escapist.

Santiago Ortiz put together a scatterplot of male editors vs. female editors of Wkipedia, for a selection of pages on various topics. Note that the scales are not the same - the x-axis (male) is by 10s, and the y-axis (female) is by ones. The gray line on the left is the parity line. Apparently, Weird Al's viewpoint character is not only "White & Nerdy," but also most likely male.

Only partially about gender issues, mostly making fun of Rick Santorum, but if you haven't read Jim Wright's "Also, Nazis!" column at Stonekettle Station yet, you should.

And Io9 has an article about the state of harassment & sexism at various geek gatherings (ReaderCon, TAM, and DefCon are the three focal points). I haven't read the comments; could someone braver than I tell me how many of them are variations on "Why is this here and not on Jezebel?"