Is This What You Think A Geek Looks Like? Well She Does. So Deal With It.

Why are people like comic book illustrator and misogynist Tony Harris so determined to shame geek girls and their “boobies” out of comic conventions? Not being a dude or a misogynist, I can’t say for sure. But can we at least acknowledge the very real truth in what this woman isn’t supposed to say about the culture…

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Rebecca Eisenberg

Dec 21, 2012

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J0ggK9-TBVY%3Frel%3D0

The full text of Tony Harris’s original Facebook post is below (warning: bad grammar, misogyny, general dickishness), so read it, then jump to 3:56 for her response.

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