On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Joseph Reagle released his new paper - "Free as in sexist?" Free culture and the gender gap.
Lots of talk about Wikipedia, and a few familiar names cited in it (Kat Walsh, Sue, SlimVirgin, among others).
Did you ever encounter the hypothesis that science fiction fandom, in some ways the ur-culture of most modern geek culture, arose among and is most congenial to persons with at least a marginal case of Asperger's, and that this shapes the manners and customs of discourse? (I do realize that Asperger's and other afflictions along the autism spectrum are supposed to be somewhat gender-linked.)
Heaven knows I'm only one of more than a dozen Wikipedians I can name easily who are also more-or-less well-known members of SF fandom, and only two of whom are female.
I'll admit to being a bit that way myself, despite my fierce lifetime feminist commitment. (I also married a fellow SF fan [at a con, as a matter of fact]; it's worked for 32 years now.)