selancastsvalor:

i think the thing that bothers me about the “fake geek girl” myth is the fact that fake geek men actually do fucking exist.

there’s an artist who sells at a lot of events across the country who sells superhero art but doesn’t read comics or watch cartoons. he watches the movies sometimes, but actively thinks comics and cartoons are stupid and that the people who like them (and the people who make them!) are stupid.

i tabled next to an artist once who sold exclusively batman art, who does not like batman at all. he doesn’t like any comics really, he thinks this stuff is too nerdy for him, he just does it because he knows batman sells.

i asked a couple comic vendors if they carry comics from oni press and they had never heard of it.

i’ll comment on a guy wearing a mass effect shirt and he’ll look at me like i have two heads. he doesn’t play mass effect. he just bought it because it was at gamestop. happens a lot with the fallout vault boy shirts too, and occasionally that rick and morty shirt with the diagram of the portal gun

if we agree that these guys are all right, then i don’t want to hear a damn word about “fake geek girls”.