Why Are You So Angry? Part 3: Perception is Everything

2015-07-15

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RE: MY CASUAL, BONEHEADED USE OF THE WORD "PSYCHOPATH": http://innuendostudios.tumblr.com/post/124340929972/so-i-was-liking-yr-why-are-you-so-angry-series

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part 1: /youtube/video/6y8XgGhXkTQ

part 2: /youtube/video/ExEHuNrC8yU

part 4: /youtube/video/c6TrKkkVEhs

part 5: /youtube/video/TCqQ9LxzTwM

part 6: /youtube/video/nfPAoz9GnWM

Bibliography:

History of degrees conferred on women, by major: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelors-degrees-conferred-to-women-by-major-1970-2012/

NPR on the decline of female programmers: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding

Barriers of entry for women in academia: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lazowska/mit/

Backlash, by Susan Faludi: http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Undeclared-Against-American-Women/dp/0307345424

Ada Lovelace, the first programmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Feminist critique of Custer's Revenge in 1982: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Custer%27s_Revenge

Jordan Mechner's The Making of Prince of Persia: http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/

Maddy Myers on Penny Arcade and rape culture: http://thephoenix.com/boston/life/116456-gaming-rape-culture-and-how-i-stopped-reading-pe/

---CORRECTION: Myers was not manhandled by a security guard at PAX, she was manhandled by an attendee at Anime Boston who works as an exhibitor at PAX, and PAX's anti-harassment policy has no way of dealing with this situation: https://twitter.com/samusclone/status/374957743133581312

Maddy Myers on not wearing skirts to game conferences: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/03/hyper-mode-gdc-fashion.html

Experiment regarding domestic abuse in public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-A7R15uYU

Stephen Colbert interview talking about perception: http://www.avclub.com/article/stephen-colbert-13970