Existing in a minority women environment is an experience common to many, but not all, geek feminists. As described by Skud: Most of us operate in minority-women environments (eg. tech industry, online gaming, science fiction fandom) which makes for a very different style of feminism from majority-women movements. As minority feminists, we talk a lot about "increasing the number of women" or "making a space welcoming for women" and we deal most often with issues of invisibility, marginalisation and harassment. Women in majority fields, on the other hand, have to face issues like having their work recognised as "real" work, and being fairly remunerated for it. These differences lead us to make all kinds of assumptions about who our community of interest is and what strategies/tactics work f
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| - Existing in a minority women environment is an experience common to many, but not all, geek feminists. As described by Skud: Most of us operate in minority-women environments (eg. tech industry, online gaming, science fiction fandom) which makes for a very different style of feminism from majority-women movements. As minority feminists, we talk a lot about "increasing the number of women" or "making a space welcoming for women" and we deal most often with issues of invisibility, marginalisation and harassment. Women in majority fields, on the other hand, have to face issues like having their work recognised as "real" work, and being fairly remunerated for it. These differences lead us to make all kinds of assumptions about who our community of interest is and what strategies/tactics work f
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| - Existing in a minority women environment is an experience common to many, but not all, geek feminists. As described by Skud: Most of us operate in minority-women environments (eg. tech industry, online gaming, science fiction fandom) which makes for a very different style of feminism from majority-women movements. As minority feminists, we talk a lot about "increasing the number of women" or "making a space welcoming for women" and we deal most often with issues of invisibility, marginalisation and harassment. Women in majority fields, on the other hand, have to face issues like having their work recognised as "real" work, and being fairly remunerated for it. These differences lead us to make all kinds of assumptions about who our community of interest is and what strategies/tactics work for us. In the same post Skud also states: Like many feminists before me, I went through a stage of "girl stuff is icky". I thought that feminism was about levelling up into male-equivalent privilege: being allowed to do boy things, being treated as one of the boys, being paid as much as men were. I eschewed anything feminine, and thought I was morally superior for doing so. This could be considered internalised sexism or androcentrism. Related:
* Girl stuff
* Tokenism
* Invisibility
* Harassment
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