Want It All? Don’t Mind If I Do.

I imagine most of us have run up against the nonsense of “fake geek girl” at one point or another. It’s ridiculous and insulting but it’s there: “Girls are only participating in fandom/going to cons/reading comics/etc. so boys will like them but they don’t actually know what they’re talking about/care/understand every detail of the canon.”… Read More

Wherefore Art Thou “Leader”?

President’s Day is a reminder to reflect on history and, of course, on our presidents.  As a woman, I’m rather conflicted on this. It’s not that I can’t identify with any of our leaders or have some sort of crazed “every male leader is irrelevant” mind-set. However, I find it dull from a historian’s perspective.… Read More

Why I Keep My Cookies Frozen

Photo via Kimberly Vardeman under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. There’s a recipe at the end of this post. There is also homework in this post. If you’ve ever watched the food network, you know how often it is that someone will say “It’s my grandma’s recipe” or “my mother taught me how”. Or maybe… Read More

Doing the ‘Bramance’ Right (Or Why Parks and Recreation is a Revelation)

My favourite movie of all time, unequivocally, is Superbad. Do I love it because it’s a hilarious big-screen introduction to Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse as social outcasts who just want to get laid? Obviously. Do I love it because it features a then-mostly-unknown Emma Stone portraying a high school girl who is actually funny… Read More

February Podcast: The Myth of the “Fake Geek Girl” & Other Sexist Phrases

This month we tackled the use of the phrases “not that kind of girl” (and “not that kind of guy”), “one of the guys”, and the “fake geek girl”. The conversation took many turns, but ultimately we look into the future and predict things are changing for the better. Note: The book “Guyland” by Michael… Read More