I disagree by agreeing, sort of. Geekspace is alienating, but with some notable exceptions I don't believe it's on purpose. I know loads of amazing girl geeks (

I disagree by agreeing, sort of. Geekspace is alienating, but with some notable exceptions I don't believe it's on purpose. I know loads of amazing girl geeks (we are mighty), and my anecdotal observations suggest that there might be a higher geek-to-normy ratio among people of color than there is among whites. And yet, we tend to go play among ourselves, because the white male geeks can get all weird when we try to play with them. Not always. Not everyone. Just sometimes. Mostly not on purpose, and mostly because they don't have any practice playing with girls or people of color in the geekspace. Enough that it's not always worth doing the work of making the white male geeks be used to having girls and people of color around because we just want to go play our geeky reindeer games.