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I was witness to a discussion between a friend and another party about roleplaying games and it struck me that geeks can be pretty sexist; the conversation was between someone who had played D&D a lot longer and someone who hadn't, but the latter party seemed to have trouble taking the former party seriously because they were a girl. It became, almost, a series of cliches like, "Oh! I'm shocked a girl likes that sort of thing" and other comments in that vein that question their authenticity.

It was like he couldn't accept that she was playing D&D longer, more often and knew way more about it than he did. It became an e-peen contest where the guy just couldn't accept that her geek e-peen was definitely way bigger. I was a bit flabbergasted by witnessing the entire discussion, and it's sort of been sitting there in the back of my head for a while. 

So of course, I googled 'fake geek' and [url=http://www.dailydot.com/news/tony-harris-peacock-fake-geek-girls-cosplayers/]permutations of that[/url] and found a huge trove of [url=http://www.xojane.com/files/fakegeek.jpeg]memes[/url] and some articles in surprising places like [url=http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/24/booth-babes-need-not-apply/]CNN[/url]. Almost all of it was targeted at women. [url=http://leslieirl.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/fake-geek-girl-comic-batman.jpg?w=560&h=796]Some of the rebuttals were hilarious.[/url]

So I'm coffeed up and finally ready to ask the question: How do you separate the people with legit interests from the people you consider 'fakers' and how do you feel about sexism within communities like this one and similar, that cater to geek interests, and what has your personal experience of some of this been? How much of this 'fake geek' ranting is legitimate and how much of it is sexism? And, not that I need to say this, feel free to interject anything else you feel about the topic (while staying Fonz cool. :hehe )

:btw Oh, and let's try to keep it Fonz cool. If you don't hit that 'post' button immediately upon finishing writing, it really is okay. You can take a minute and go, "Yeah, I could phrase that better." Also, try to stick to attacking the views and not the person.