Keeping with the bad sex theme of this linkspam, have a scary Lysol ad from the past!
Today is the day where I stay inside and don’t venture anywhere near a store. Since I live in a no sales tax state, most large retail establishments are no-shop zones for me until after the holidays. Onwards to links!
- Geek Masculinity and the Myth of the Fake Geek Girl “For those of us who had to mortgage significant parts of our identities at the door, it’s hard not to see the new generation of geek girls as interlopers, getting a free ride where we had to laboriously claw our way in.”
- An open letter to Tim Ferriss Book banning isn’t a marketing strategy, jerkface.
- The Quiet Ones Except that the conductor can make a unilateral decision that if the train is full, then the Quiet Car isn’t quiet anymore–as I found out to my dismay on a train from Boston to Wilmington last summer. And yes, I am still pissed about this because there was a screaming fight in NYC and they didn’t do anything about it and when I complained they told me that there wasn’t anything they could do. RAWR.
- Subscribe to Clarkesworld, it is awesome.
- Perception and Filtering Kate Elliott’s got some smart things to say about the familiar and stereotyping that we do as readers (and as writers).
- Because Fran hates us all: The Bad Sex in Fiction 2012 Shortlist
- The Female Perspective in Game Development David Gaider, head writer for Bioware’s Dragon Age franchise, explains why diversity in video game development is important.
- Two Brief Thoughts about Cecilia Grant’s A Lady Awakened This was one of the best romances I read this past year. Here’s another recent post about this book: The Best Bad Sex Ever.
- Movements: Identity and the Indigenous Spirit Interesting essay by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz in Strange Horizons.
- Games with Exclusively Female Heroes Don’t Sell (Because Publishers Don’t Support Them) “What we did find is that almost no games with exclusively female heroes exist. Those that do are almost always sent out to die due to limited marketing budgets.”
There are Reasons I like Bioware games. A lot. And the gender attitude within the games has a lot to do with that – I mean, it’s far from perfect, but it’s still better than 99% of everything else.
I haven’t played many Bioware games, but I have really liked the ones I have played (or watched other people play) and I like the way the devs are open about this stuff and are explicitly trying to make their games appealing to a wider demographic. They don’t always succeed, but nobody’s perfect.
Yeah.