tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819607534051208825.post7146646080135226945..comments2023-11-24T15:42:40.775-08:00Comments on The Badger's Sett: In Which I Am Almost Certainly Geekier Than You, But Don't Have to Demonstrate ThatRowan Badgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521541066585626296noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819607534051208825.post-48115317875181655242013-10-31T09:08:36.913-07:002013-10-31T09:08:36.913-07:00Wow, that really sucks that you've had to deal...Wow, that really sucks that you've had to deal with that kind of misogynistic behavior. I guess I've been pretty lucky. I don't really recall any time I've been blatantly challenged on my geek cred. In Jr. High and High School, it was my dad that got me and my friends into D&D, so perhaps that helped my cred quite a bit, but I also think that I managed to find a group of friends (mostly male, but there was another female in the group) who recognized that being female doesn't make you less of a geek. I don't remember ever sensing hostility from my male friends or that they ever doubted I was a geek just like them. That being said, from around 6th or 7th grade on, I was always aware that I was a girl who wanted to be one of the guys. There must have been something in my environment that clued me in to the "fact" that the things I loved were typically things that geeky guys loved, not girls, and that I needed to act a certain way so that I could be one of the guys. Even though that thought process is still there in the back of my mind and probably always will be, at least now, I'm blessed to be a girl who likes geeky things amongst a bunch of friends (male, female, and in between) who also like geeky things.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15043459293039835041noreply@blogger.com