“Your experience tells you that no women will demand Tolkien? Okay. Let’s talk about my experience. I saw many women in movie audiences thrilled to see Orlando Bloom kick butt as an elf, not just because he has a pretty face but because he was a great character in an epic tale. I saw a lot of women in line to have their photo taken with the Game of Thrones display at WonderCon in San Francisco recently. I regularly read online pieces by geek girls such as Amy Ratcliffe, Teresa Jusino, Janna O’Shea and Jill Pantozzi. I listen to the “Geek Girls Network Podcast” and the women of “The Escape” on GetThePointRadio.com. I visit GeekGirlCon.com and The League of Extraordinary Ladies. I follow the work of Blair Butler, Amber Benson, Grace Randolph, Jessica Mills and Felicia Day. I read books by Richelle Mead that involve a woman enacting quite a bit of violence on vampires. One of my favorite superhero writers? Gail Simone. An artist I love who is great at depicting action scenes in superhero comics? Amanda Conner. And hey, here’s something shocking. Do you know who recommended the book Game of Thrones to me? My girlfriend and four other women. Amazingly, they read it despite the fact that it was in the Boy Fiction section of the bookstore. I don’t know how they were even allowed to enter that section and were able to convince the store to let them purchase books from it, but they’re quite crafty and skilled so I imagine a pulley system and a sonic screwdriver must have been involved.”
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OP/ED: Hey NY Times - Geek Girls Really Do Exist!
Follow-up to the “Fuck you, douche! I love me some hobbits!” outrage from the other night.
(via caraobrien)
