Because I need to reiterate this: Fake Geek Girls kind of exist, but mostly in the realm of right wing politics; pundithots selling an idealized image of themselves to the thirsty.
Just to clarify before I receive a deluge of hate mail—yes, there are women that are earnestly interested in nerd stuff, nobody is denying this. What we’re talking about are the allegations that there are some women who pretend to be into nerd fandoms in order to get some sort of benefit for themselves (money, fame, or merely the slavering attention of thirsty beta males).
Naturally, many would argue that this phenomenon does not exist, and that this is all a product of the fevered imaginations of “bitter manbabies”. This is the position that Rational Wiki takes and, I will assume, the rest of the leftist political sphere takes (Rational Wiki being one of the few leftist sites I feel actually can make a decent point now and again). RW’s argument is essentially: “Why would these so-called ‘fake geek girls’ even bother pretending to be fans of [X franchise], when they could probably get just as much attention by dressing in skanky clothes and walking into a nerd consortium?”
This argument is certainly logical, but I don’t think that this is right at all. I think that there are quite a few examples of women pretending to be part of stereotypically male-dominated fandoms in order to profit off of them somehow—and not just in nerddom, as we shall see…
…Those of you who followed Gamergate will of course know that fake geek girls are a thing—despite her rapidly growing irrelevance to things, Anita Sarkeesian is a shining example of a fake geek girl. She has openly admitted that she had no interest in video games until she had the idea to do her video series, because she was smart enough to know that there was a lot of feminist criticism of video games, the winds of culture were starting to turn against “angry manchild nerds”, and there was money to be made—and she certainly made a lot of it off of the controversy.
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