{"id":765,"date":"2008-05-22T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T12:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2008-05-22T22:36:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T12:36:33","slug":"quick-links-yaoi-and-women-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/quick-links-yaoi-and-women-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links: Yaoi and Women In IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today.<\/p>\n<p>The first is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agoracosmopolitan.com\/home\/Frontpage\/2008\/05\/19\/02361.html\" target=\"blank\">this Canadian article<\/a> on the growth of Yaoi &#8211; Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I&#8217;ve written about Yaoi before, this adds another perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpro.co.uk\/phpbb\/viewtopic.php?t=275039\" target=\"blank\">this board post from a woman who works in IT<\/a>. She is making a point about how IT is still an overwhelmingly male industry, at least in the way that women are &#8220;invisible.&#8221; Her description of the way computer magazines are always aimed at a male audience has distinct echoes with my complaints about porn. I like the way she offers a gender reversal to get her point across:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine that pc magazines call you <em>she<\/em> and assume you have a husband\/boyfriend. It jars every time you read that. Imagine if every pair of hands you saw fixing a computer in magazine pictures were female. Wouldn&#8217;t you feel a bit freaky? Imagine when you got onto a technical site, all the side ads were of naked men. Imagine people send you naked male porn as a thankyou when you post a helpful comment&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today. The first is this Canadian article on the growth of Yaoi &#8211; Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I&#8217;ve written about Yaoi before, this adds another perspective. Secondly I found this board post from a woman who works in IT. She is making a point about how IT is still an overwhelmingly male industry, at least in the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/quick-links-yaoi-and-women-in-it\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[208,324,434,719,743,856,865],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture","category-pornforwomen","tag-computers","tag-fiction","tag-it","tag-sexism","tag-slash","tag-women","tag-yaoi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}