So there!
Geek is KEWL! How do I know? A couple of thousand
years ago - well, July - I surfed across *geekgirl* eZine. What a revelation!Smart, funny, irreverent, super pix, graphically inventive, my screen lit up as much as my smile. What was going on? Conventional wisdom had it that women used the Web to shop (snort!) and that was about all. Well, whoever spread that rumor hadn't been where I was.
The paper had a distinct personality. It was "female" without being stridently "feminist" or simperingly "Women's Home Journal".
*geekgirl* is out of a suburb of Sidney, Australia (not that that has anything to do with anything, except as a cultural referent). It's a great example of the potential of the Web to empower women in what is, essentially, a male-dominated environment (it is, so!).
I fed "GRRLS" into the Infoseek search engine. I was agreeably surprised to find a number of 'zines run by and for women. In this writer's humble opinion, none of them are quite up to the *gg* standard. You may feel differently.
So - what is a "geekgirl"? According to my Antipodean correspondent, she is "a self taught, machine-lovin', smart-talkin' babe who treats the keyboard like an oozie and her screen as a mirror."
So there!
As they say, if the cap fits........
(PS: V kewl t-shirts)