Re: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Another Female Geeks Article)

[Jenn V.]

"Jenny Brown (was Gable)" wrote:
> 
> The anti-geek friends have made a lot of comments like, hey, stop
> geeking, you all talk about that at work, now shut up and talk about
> something else. And it comes across to me much the same way that
> being closetted about being bi felt; that there was this topic of
> importance to me but I couldn't talk about it because it was bad.

> Being told not to talk about it felt like being told, "Who you are is
> not okay, you need to change so you will be sociable and acceptable to
> us."

You just made me cry. Not bad-crying, but 'someone else knows 
how it feels' crying.

Yes. Exactly. That's what it is. That's me.


Jenn V.
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