The Blood is The Life 13-06-2012

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• The All-Too-Familiar Harassment Against Feminist Frequency, and What The Gaming Community Can Do About It | The Mary Sue
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• Can't We Discuss This Like Adults? | GamesIndustry International
  Fabulous post. Bet few people actually heed it; it's either preaching to the choir, or going to get sucked into the void of BUT IT'S SO UNFAIR I HATE YOU depending on who reads it...
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• DC Women Kicking Ass - Another take on Catwoman #0
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• Ripley Versus Shaw: The Women of the Alien Universe | Tor.com
  Interesting post. I think the thing I liked best about Noomi Rapace's Shaw was her quiet determination; but (despite being a Doctor of whatever) she's not as smart under pressure as Ripley.
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Comments

[innerbrat]

Not seen it yet.

But I don't expect PhD peeps to be particularly smart under pressure, because we're a different kind of smart.

[lizw]

Tell them that whatever “joke” they’re making isn’t funny and that it’s not okay. Tell them this even if they’re targeting someone else.

Tell them this particularly if they're targeting someone else (unless you have specific reason to think the someone else wouldn't welcome it.) We already know they don't care what the target thinks, so being told by that person alone isn't going to cut it - they need to learn that their "joke" is not okay with the community at large, including people they perceive as "like them" in as many other ways as possible. And, as Becky says herself, the target may already be too scared or too worn down to do it.