Nerds and Male Privilege 3: Cross Assault, Sexual Harassment And
You  « Previous 1 2 3 View All Next »  Ok, I wasn’t planning on
this. After two separate articles on male privilege, women and
the geek community, I had been planning on leaving the topic
well enough alone. I mean, I’ll freely cop to enjoying and
appreciating the attention and links it gets me whenever I
strike that particular hornet’s nest, but the last thing I want
is to either a) turn my blog from dating advice to gender
relations studies and b) I don’t want to give the impression
that I keep going to this well whenever I feel like I need more
pageviews.  Plus, diminishing returns and all that.  And then
someone sent me the Giant Bomb article about Aris Bakhtanians
and the treatment of Miranda Pakozdi and that plan went right
out the goddamned window.  So let me explain…  No, is too much,
let me sum up.  I challenge you not to read this in Inigo's
voice now.  Cross Assault is an online elimination-style reality
show sponsored by Capcom, where