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Comic Books, Comic-Con, ComicCon, Comics, costumes, costuming, Culture Wars, fan culture, masquerade, popular culture, ritual
“Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be” is a blog entry by John Scalzi that beautifully describes being a geek and discusses a recent attack on female attendees at Comic-Con. I’ve run into the same complaints about we “geek girls” and cos-player taking over the boys’ playpen but this essay says it best.