And my ambivalence about the hyper-sexualization of females in comics?
Check out the slide show about Harley Quinn cosplay in the LA Times. Look at the difference in (un)dress between the male and female cosplayers.
Then check out this tweet from David Helder pointing out the sexism at #defcon, a computer security conference. Please note, this is happening in 2016.
Hacker Jeopardy. Category is "Dicks". Men play. Women give them beers. Why aren't there more women in security?Click to see the questions on the screens. To play this game, you have to have encyclopedic knowledge about p@rn.
Scroll down to read the discussion. This is the state of one corner of tech. I am not sure other areas of tech are any better.
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