efyoung's review
5.0
A fascinating, nuanced look at geek culture, its mainstreaming, and toxic masculinity, grounded in explorations of different aspects of pop culture, from comic book creators decrying fake geek girls to The Big Bang Theory undermining its verbal messages with visual and context clues. For anyone who's ever felt the intimate alienation of a theoretically welcoming social context (geek spaces are theoretically for anyone who's a geek) that has been found to be subtly hostile, it offers not just a verbalization of the problems but concrete, grounded examples.
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