Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today.<\/p>\n
The first is this Canadian article<\/a> on the growth of Yaoi – Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I’ve written about Yaoi before, this adds another perspective.<\/p>\n Secondly I found 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 “invisible.” 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 Imagine that pc magazines call you 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’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…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today. The first is this Canadian article on the growth of Yaoi – Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I’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 Read More …<\/a><\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t