I'm a Woman. I am also a Nerd. Maybe a Geek.

I almost did it again.

LOL

I almost commented on youtube.

I guess I like many people get riled up pretty easily with stuff that's kind of part of my entire existence.

There is this big campaign floating around the internets...

Feminazis...

Feminists are man haters...

Feminism is bullshit...

Feminism is a terrible movement...

All of these things amount to one thing...

Silencing women who are speaking up about equality.

Because it doesn't matter if she actually is a feminist or not.

If you make a comment about how offensive men can be towards women...

GOD FORBID

Because she will be the target of self justified men who call her a "feminist bitch who needs to die"

Seriously, every man and woman's post (because I've seen some more men out there posting about this, thank you guys!) about women's equality is shunned instantly with the counter that the poster is a "feminist bigot" or something like this.

And there are so many men who are feminists too.

So why aren't there more discussions that entail intelligence rather than these people being targeted by insensitive bullying?

Yea I said it!

What? You don't think it's bullying?

How is it any less bullying if the one guy who stands up for the kid who is picked on all the time gets teased and targeted.

This is why we don't have men standing up for us. They're too afraid of being targets.

They ignore it...

They don't get involved...

And that's upsetting because watching any woman be put down for wanting equality is similar to not caring whether one's sister, mother or lover has equal rights to men.

Back in the day, it was about politics...

Women still have to deal with the fact that (just like men) we have a portion of our segment of the human race that portrays us as dumb, different, and not meant to handle situations where men aren't dominating us. (the latter not existing within the male race because they don't see themselves as necessarily needing to be dominated by women)

Why is it when a new perspective appears, people are quick to be mad? Like it targeted them!








It's disheartening to see so many who are just getting "offended" by this video, rather than taking it as a perspective...or just being all like "oh she's cute I'd be fine with it"

The latter takes on the perspective of men as men...without putting on the glasses of a woman and realizing that it's not quite the same...just because they are physically appealing doesn't make it any less harassing...


I feel like the video takes its short length and scrunches so many of these encounters into one encounter...

So that it's more visible and for time...

Many guys don't get how subtle it is and how often they drop just a piece of this on women quite often...


Whether it's about sexualizing what women do...or belittling them for being involved in a male dominant thing...



I've experienced both...

I wanted to cosplay as Raven from the Teen Titans for a convention...that didn't fly when some guys overheard and started commenting on how I would look in a skimpy outfit...changed my entire costume choice...

Why did they comment?

Because they're idiots spying on people in a costume store?

They are strangers who otherwise have no place to talk to you about what you're going to wear and what you're going to do.

I've been in many situations where it was ignorable and people believe I should just ignore it...

I have been told "Just ignore it" like it's natural to feel uncomfortable


But there was one situation where my friend had to step in and buy a book for me because I couldn't get past the teller's condescending attitude because I was a girl in a store full of guys...

Literally had to have a guy friend step in and make the purchase to get this guy to shut up and take the money in exchange for the book.


And those of the crowd claiming it's just "geek man-babies" it's really not.

I don't believe most men do this, but I've heard it from every kind of man...

It doesn't matter if I just want to get involved in the DC comics or if I want to play football...because I am a woman, I am belittled.

My participation in this is meant to do nothing more than to impress men.

Am I whining?

From your perspective maybe.

But think about this for a moment...

You don't actually know or understand why.

You don't know where I've been and what's been done to me.

You don't know how many times I've tried to get comics and have been chased away by condescending words that have forced me to go to friends and the internet for fun stuff only "geek boys" do...

You don't know how many times I was purposefully targeted by body slams for participating in an all boys' "tag" football...

I didn't complain then because I got up and kept playing...

But the reason I speak up about it now is because there are so many men who would like to pretend that they are not at fault.

They could not possibly be at fault.

It's only man-babies who don't understand women.

And most of the time, men probably don't even realize that they do it.

Just a comment dropped about her appearance...

How she can't possibly be interested in something like this...

Because she is a woman and not a man, she can't be interested in these things.



We can't control the way our ancestors behaved.

Our mothers and grandmothers were programmed and shunned away from those types, and thus made fun of them.

So those who call blame on women today that they should just take the bitching because of their mothers and grandmothers...

Maybe they should rethink where the blame lies...because if this is gonna be about lineage and what gender did what...maybe all sons should take the blame for the rapes committed by a few men before them.


It's severe but think about that.

That is the sense they demand I see it.

That I should take blame for the actions of women before me.

That I should be ashamed of being a woman and a nerd because nerds used to be made fun of back in the day.

Because nerds with their wedgies had it so much harder than the women who were force fed when they protested for the right to vote.



Just some food for thought.