At Forbes, Tara Tiger Brown’s attack on “fake” geek girls —”Pretentious females who have labeled themselves as a “geek girl” figured out that guys will pay a lot of attention to them”—has gotten the response it deserves. Here’s Leigh Alexander:
The author of the article takes great pains to establish her own authenticity and attack the authenticity of others, for… why again? Presumably she feels threatened, like her “geeky” pastimes should remain secret forts that everyone needs to know the password to get into. It’s a weird, sad way for an adult to behave.
And here’s Susana Polo:
Who are you to say that a stranger, someone you’re never likely to meet, is not genuinely interested in the thing they appear to be interested in? Who are you? I just… what? I’m rendered incoherent. … [We] take it at face value. Why? Because we don’t actually have a reason not to. Because the alternative breeds a closed community of paranoid, elitist jerks who lash out at anyone new. The proper response to someone who says they like comics and has only read Scott Pilgrim is to recommend some more comics for them.
The blogtastic new Forbes, publishing exclusionary sneering from someone eager to establish their own credentials? You don’t say. [via Metafilter]