Thursday, December 19, 2019
Article Review Geek Policing Fake Geek Girls And...
Despite the fact that the science fiction genre was created by a woman, science fiction is now overrun by people who now feel the need to write articles titled â€Å"Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away†(Brown, 2012). This article will summarize the works of Joseph Reagle and his article â€Å"Geek Policing: Fake Geek Girls and Contested Attention†(2015). â€Å"Each post about fake geek girls shows that question of attention is significant within geek culture†(Reagle, 2015). To explain this, Reagle (2015) uses Bourdieu’s theory of fields and capital, complemented by literature on geeks, authenticity and boundary policing; this allows the ability to identify the reciprocal relationship between the policing of identity and the policing of social boundaries. â€Å"Finally, the conversation tended to manifest the values of dominant members meaning that, in a discourse started by a woman to encourage other women to be geeky, some of the loudest voices were those judging women’s bodies and brains according to traditionally androcentric and heteronormative views†(Reagle, 2015). In 2009, J.A. McArthur wrote about what it means to be ‘geeky’: â€Å"To be geek is to be engaged, to be enthralled in a topic, and then to act on that engagement.†And what a better way to act upon that engagement then to act on it with other people who also enjoy it. This is where the problem lies; â€Å"although done in good fun, geeks are keen to not only identify the various facets of their identity, but test,
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