This is so utterly stupid that I don't even know how to structure my rebuttal. In my experience, "geek culture" is far more accepting of women than the men outside of that category. You can inflate statistics to say whatever you want just by altering the wording being used slightly or by data-mining or an other similar process, but if you spend a day among this section of the world you are indicting you will realize instantly that geeks are only too happy to include an intelligent woman. Perhaps the problem here is not that women are not accepted, but that the ones being discriminated against just aren't as good. You should never make allowances for people based on race and gender or you are just guilty of another form of racism/sexism. The point at the end of the day though is that I have never met anyone more accepting of women than the intelligent "geek culture" that is denounced in this bullshit article.
The thing that I find interesting about all this selling of TV Shows crap is how pointless it all is. I mean, I support my favorite shows by buying their releases on DVD but I don't feel a need to buy them because TV is free to watch and record. With the exception of a few rare events(NFL games and a few others) all television can be recorded and distributed as desired as long as profit is not being made. The Supreme Court legally upheld this position when the MPAA tried to fight it in recent years. They are effectively trying to roll back time to before VCRs were invented. I have heard many people say that they will just watch illegally recorded TV shows that they download. Well, according to national law, it's not illegal. Go look up the laws for yourself and you'll see that the MPAA and similiar abusers of law are trying to create a campaign of fear against people on false legal grounds.
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This is so utterly stupid that I don't even know how to structure my rebuttal. In my experience, "geek culture" is far more accepting of women than the men outside of that category. You can inflate statistics to say whatever you want just by altering the wording being used slightly or by data-mining or an other similar process, but if you spend a day among this section of the world you are indicting you will realize instantly that geeks are only too happy to include an intelligent woman. Perhaps the problem here is not that women are not accepted, but that the ones being discriminated against just aren't as good. You should never make allowances for people based on race and gender or you are just guilty of another form of racism/sexism. The point at the end of the day though is that I have never met anyone more accepting of women than the intelligent "geek culture" that is denounced in this bullshit article.
The thing that I find interesting about all this selling of TV Shows crap is how pointless it all is. I mean, I support my favorite shows by buying their releases on DVD but I don't feel a need to buy them because TV is free to watch and record. With the exception of a few rare events(NFL games and a few others) all television can be recorded and distributed as desired as long as profit is not being made. The Supreme Court legally upheld this position when the MPAA tried to fight it in recent years. They are effectively trying to roll back time to before VCRs were invented. I have heard many people say that they will just watch illegally recorded TV shows that they download. Well, according to national law, it's not illegal. Go look up the laws for yourself and you'll see that the MPAA and similiar abusers of law are trying to create a campaign of fear against people on false legal grounds.