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more about #gender bookwench: IT Chick here with a newsflash. What they really need to ensure people take down off their office walls are explicit scenes of gummi bear torture. I m... more » mazimazo: @Robobagins : here it is more » bonniegrrl: All the IT guys I know rock. They're the only ones I can have a serious discussion about Doctor Who with without it turning into a "Which Doctor is th... more » Sunshineyness: Also, can I just say I CAN NOT WAIT for the majority of the baby boomers to retire? I feel like it's that generation that is keeping these obnoxious w... more » Sunshineyness: Ugh. Or it could be because IT guys are notorious for talking down to women. Call me kooky, but it could be, you know, their personality faults not th... more » Mary Ratliff: You know what bothers me about this? If I walked into a workplace and saw Chewbacca or Star Trek posters or things that I knew came from Think Geek I... more » AdrianTheRed: I'm a network operator for a rather large consumer electronics retailer. There's probably 150-200 employees in the IT group as a whole. Including my... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Am I some sort of half-breed freak, in that I took courses in both English and Computer Science in school? One way or another, I still consider mysel... more » Jeriba: Do you think the results would have been different if the geeky decor had included giant posters of David Tennant and Summer Glau? more » TemporalOutLaw: How do coke cans make an atmosphere less hospitable and pleasant? I hope this wasn't a real study because everything about is biased and misrepresen... more » einsteinsquandry: Roy: Women, they're all shoe mad. Moss: That's a bit sexist isn't it? Roy: How many women do you know that aren't shoe mad? Moss: Well none, but I onl... more » CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): Not completely off-topic, but that pic reminded me of Bosom Buddies... "I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life." more » Dirk Anger: "Do you really want to attract English majors to computer science?" You want to attract everybody to computer science, because when they get to work ... more » kiarna001: I call bullshit. In my software company's dev office I am the only female and the only one with a desk covered in geeky toys. Currently there is a Cyl... more » gd01skorpius: Fuck 'em. SFWork is SFWomen. If somebody, be they a man or woman, wants me to take down my SFW decore, they can go to hell. more » Vexxarr: Chewbacca doesn't scare off women, it scares off the straights (non geeks) which is exactly what the Chewbacca is doing there to begin with. If a girl... more » Shadowcat24: My husband and I both work in IT. My husband's desk has a model of a TARDIS and a Dalek figure from Dr. Who. He also had s model of the Enterprise fro... more » e30 guy: more » cadrina: fake science trying to prove fake points. I am a woman and think that would rock to work in a place full science fiction stuff. Like having a poster o... more » evildead1971: i'm the only sci-fi geek (male) at my office, how's that for hostile? more » -
#dubiousresearch
Does Science Fiction Make Your Workplace A Hostile Environment For Women?
Computer geeks: Tear down those science-fiction posters! Get rid of those Tron lightcycle toys! Your science-fiction bric-a-brac is scaring women away from IT, says a new study. More » -
#cycler
Cycler Film Brings a Sex-Filled, Gender-Bending Jekyll and Hyde
Four days each month, Jill transforms. But instead of becoming a werewolf, she becomes a boy, with all that entails. Now Lauren McLaughlin's tale of gender identity, Cycler, is coming to the big screen. More » -
#madmedicine
The Strange Case of Seizures That Turned a Woman Into a Man
Researchers report an odd case in the latest issue of Epilepsy & Behavior. Whenever their patient had an epileptic seizure, she thought she'd become male - and that other women near her had turned into men too. What caused it? More » -
#politicalsciencefiction
The Men Who Make Battlestar Galactica Feminist
A recent article in Slate calls Battlestar Galactica a safe haven for "chauvinist pigs." But all you have to do is look at representations of men in this show to see its feminist side. (NSFW) More » -
#sarahconnorchronicles
Kate Bornstein Weighs in on Last Night's Trannytastic Terminator
Last night, we met the first transgender person (that we know of) in the Terminator universe. We asked transgender activist and author Kate Bornstein for her opinion of the episode. -
