yarrr, ye scurvy boy-king, halt ye whinin'

Girl geeks have long complained about the relative lack of interesting women in their favorite films and shows, and the fact that Star Trek envisioned an interstellar military that clothed its female officers in miniskirts was certainly a bit alienating for young women who aspired to climb both career and actual ladders.

...Geek culture is, fundamentally, about outsiderness. It's often literally about aliens (or, in LOTR's case, about monsters and men/hobbits who become monsters), but it's also a marginal subculture that appeals to people who feel marginalized.

...Over the last fifty years or so, geek culture has offered a source of weird pride. You could argue that this source is drying up — both because geekness is almost mainstream now, and because those who wish it weren't have in some cases become so self-congratulatory that they're just as bad as cool kids.

- Anna North