With Geek Girls' true intentions being put under a microscope, Jenna Busch opines on the Geek Girl Wars and the future of women in Geek-dom.  View Jenna's original article on Girl Meets Lightsaber! Geek girls have been all over the news lately, from Boobgate to little Katie Goldman who was teased for liking Star Wars (and the unbelievable outpouring of support from geek girls all over the world) to why some people think Game of Thrones is for guys, to whether or not celebrity women are pandering to geeks.  I've talked about it.  I've discussed it on Twitter and ComiCenter.  I just chatted about it with my very good friend and honorary geek chick George Roush and new buddy Jennifer Landa on My Geek Lady.  (Check out the show).  But I thought it was time to put my feelings down, if not on paper, then on the web. I think it's easy to dismiss us because the prevailing feeling out there is that being a female geek is still an unusual thing. I still have men look at me in shock when I tell them I play World of Warcraft (to be fair, I might be mistaking that for what is really shock that I leave the house and play World of Warcraft).  Not so very long ago, I told the producers of a show on a major gaming network that I love video games and comic books and they called me a unicorn.  Rare, they explained, because I don't look like a troll and I know what a drow is.  This from a network that regularly hires geek women. 


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