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Read our exclusive transcript of the Keynote Speech from Fake Geek Girl Con 2012!
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So, Gail Simone (@gailsimone) started a Twitter conversation today centering around a really interesting question:
Question for all-do women in male-dominated creative industries have an added responsibility to represent their gender, apart from the work?
— GailSimone (@GailSimone) November 27, 2012
This may surprise you, but I have ~*feelings*~ about this topic.
(Please consider staging this short skit to teach con workers and volunteers to be aware of this very common, yet dangerous, situation.)
SCENE: A COMIC AND/OR GAMING CONVENTION. MR. GOODMAN IS SITTING AT HIS BOOTH BEING IMPORTANT.
ENTER BILLY.
BILLY: Oh boy! A comic (gaming) convention! I sure can’t wait to have intelligent, in-depth discussions on comics (games) with my peer group who share my utter devotion to our subculture!
MR. GOODMAN: Well, hello Billy! Would you like some free booth swag?
BILLY: I sure would, Mr. Goodman!
MR. GOODMAN: I thought so, Billy. Are you having fun at this convention?
BILLY: I am, Mr. Goodman! All this good will and respect for our source material is just making me thing WOWEE!
MR. GOODMAN: That’s good, Billy! Just be careful.
BILLY: Why, Mr. Goodman? Are you worried I’ll spend all my money in one place?
MR. GOODMAN: No, Billy. You need to be careful, because this con, like many others, has been infiltrated by FAKE GEEK GIRLS.
Come join the Nerds on the Rocks crew as we sit around the campfire and talk about cover songs, superheroes and the Wu Tang Clan. Also, fuck you.
So, there’s been some rumblings lately that there’s going to be a Twilight MMORPG. And while I wish I was kidding, it sounds like it’s legitimately in the works.
But, as I occasionally do, I told myself: Amazon, it could have been worse.
They could have made a Twilight-based Magic: The Gathering expansion.
Allow me to show the horrors that would have come of such a thing:
And what’s a Magic set without a ridiculously overpowered card? Hmmm?
Oh, and since Stephenie Meyer has to be directly involved in EVERYTHING relating to her series, she gets a card as well:
So remember, folks. A MMORPG is bad. But it could have been MUCH, MUCH WORSE.
