Never Assume Anything About a Geek Girl

Unfortunately, though the world might be getting more and more geek friendly by the minute, being a geek girl is still difficult. [..]

• Don’t assume that she’s had “help” rolling up her character or that is only playing D&D for the RP aspect (or because of her significant other). The next time someone asks me if I just play D&D because my husband dragged me into it might get a sucker punch.

• Don’t assume she’s buying comics for her significant other. Just because a woman is walking into a comics store doesn’t automatically mean she’s lost, looking for presents for someone else, or there on a dare. It also doesn’t mean she’s only interested in manga, Wonder Woman or Buffy comics. Take note. Lather, rinse, repeat.

• Don’t assume she doesn’t like girly things. Sometimes there’s a sort of pendulum effect, treating geek girls like geek guys and assuming that we have turned against our entire gender just to get geek cred. Not so. Many of us are exceptionally girly, just not by standard definition perhaps.

• Don’t assume she’s read and liked Twilight. Just don’t. Trust me on this one.

• Don’t assume she only likes to read urban fantasy books with strong protagonists. And if we’re writers don’t assume we write that stuff. Many of us dig swords, guns, and classics, too.

• Don’t assume we’re stupid about computers. Eternally annoying. It’s one thing to have sat and tried to fix your own computer for a few hours and resigning yourself to going to the Genuis Bar or Geek Squad, or whatever. But it’s another thing altogether to have to cope with techies talking to you about your computer as if it’s the first time you’ve ever laid eyes on this marvelous object. “Did you restart it?” “Wait, what? It restarts?”

By Natania Barron
Contributing Writer, [GaS]

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