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Even less than that by SWC Memorybank 06/05/2016, 2:29pm PDT
The character was asking the class, "how many of you play games? / how many of you play as girl characters?", then follows gushing about her wykked rad MMO persona.

Equally she herself could be questioned, "Do you write code? / Do you build models? / Do you make textures? / Do you design interfaces? etc", with the answer being a resounding 'No'. She's not there to teach them skills, or to talk about the struggles of her professional journey (Which is improved in the edit). Therefore, she really has no place proselytizing to young children about this kind of diversionary/false empowerment. Placing herself as the 'wise' victim-hero shadowboxing against, uh, the plight of electronic gender representation, and telling these young girls to fallback the same? Barf.

It also comes off as very Shit-That-Never-Happened. And, well, that's because it's fiction scribed by Cory Doctorow. I guarantee this was written for his daughter or something to be "inspirational" (and I don't need to go to Wikipedia to confirm, it's blatant enough as is). Thanks for the empty self-serving, well-wishing, Gamer Dad.
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People are mass arching some of our classic moments. by ja 06/05/2016, 7:03am PDT NEW
    Did my "Die Hard teaches writing" series survive? NT by fabio 06/05/2016, 7:36am PDT NEW
    Re: People are mass arching some of our classic moments. by Rey Mysterio Jr. 06/05/2016, 9:33am PDT NEW
        She's teaching girls they can aspire to better pay and more job security as by garbagemen than cleaning ladies. 06/05/2016, 10:52am PDT NEW
            The garbageman part is jsoh's edit. The original was probably comic artist. NT by Mischief Maker 06/05/2016, 12:35pm PDT NEW
                Even less than that by SWC Memorybank 06/05/2016, 2:29pm PDT NEW
                    Women have a lot of shit they need to work on before they can kick back relax by and enjoy some video games. 06/05/2016, 5:29pm PDT NEW
                    Does Cory Doctorow wear dark hipster glasses? *google google* NT by OF COURSE he does! 06/05/2016, 6:32pm PDT NEW
                        Cory Doctorow visits a radio shack by 8) 06/05/2016, 10:22pm PDT NEW
                            Beautiful NT by gives bad flashbacks to boing boing 06/05/2016, 11:55pm PDT NEW
                    Hahahahaha! by Mischief Maker 06/06/2016, 7:56am PDT NEW
                        Re: Hahahahaha! by cc Licensed Author Mysterio 06/06/2016, 7:12pm PDT NEW
                        Women aren't men by helpful NPC 06/07/2016, 2:22am PDT NEW
 
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