Inspired by this post at Feminist Gamers and this post on The IRIS Network forums, I decided to take an old post of mine and turn it into a bingo scorecard.
Basically the rules are that when you see a media article, blog post, or anything else talking about women in relation to a geeky hobby (gaming, technology, science, etc) you pull out this scorecard and mark down which points the article touches on. If you get three in a row (diagonal counts), you win! If you get blackout, you win even more!
What do you win? Well, the satisfaction of knowing that you have made fun of yet another stupid article on women geeks. You can also link your scorecard (and any post that you made in relation to the bingo — using the scorecard isn’t mandatory, but I think it’s a cute visual) on this thread and, if you do a post, I might just highlight it here or on TIN’s forums.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Too TOO funny! I’m going to have to print one of those out for future reference. ^^
April 5th, 2007 at 12:50 am
I love it! Also thought you might be interested in this:
http://feministcarnival.blogspot.com/
and I wanted to hear your thoughts on the DS Nintendo Lite (pink, and advertised by a woman cuddling her Cat in delight at winning a level?!)
Sorry I’ve not been around for a while – family trouble is keeping me away.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
[...] On much the same topic, tekanji at Official Shrub.com Blog has prepared a useful bingo card. [...]
April 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
[...] “Geek Girl” Stereotype Bingo [...]
April 17th, 2007 at 7:43 am
After seeing this yesterday, today I read this article and I was expecting to fill in all the boxes. Instead, it’s actually (gasp) not bad. Also, written by a woman.
April 21st, 2007 at 5:08 am
[...] Lauredhel’s Anti-feminist Bingo. Lorelei’s MRA Bingo. Midnight Louise’s Sexual Assault Bingo. Miss Ann’s White Liberal Bingo. Girl-Wonder.org’s Karen Healey’s Anti-Comics-Feminist Bingo. Edit: Tekanji’s Geek Girl Stereotype Bingo. (Via The Hathor Legacy.) [...]
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
[...] Of course, if you get bored, you can always play bingo… Posted in da funnay, our bodies our business, actual weblogging, ain’t nobody happy, women in comics, he was like ‘wtf mate?’, perceptions, godbaggery, privilege, patriarchy in action, feminism. [...]
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:16 am
[...] -From tekanji at the Official Shrub.com Blog we have “Geek Girl” Stereotype Bingo. See how many of the boxes you recognize from articles. [...]
June 11th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
[...] article called To Appeal to Women, Too, Gadgets Go Beyond ‘Cute’ and ‘Pink’ (feel free to bingo it in my stead), but I got to reading a Gizmodo article called NY Times: Smaller, Easier to Use [...]
October 10th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
[...] the article is worth a read, even though it ventures into bingo territory a few times. [link] Filed under Japan; Video Games « More on [...]
October 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
[...] Burning Man bingo. – Geek girl stereotype bingo. – Credit card industry reform bingo. – Dysfunctional family bingo, via. – Bad meeting bingo; good [...]
November 18th, 2009 at 8:13 am
[...] came across this classic idea today. Everyone in tech surely has heard of buzzword bingo. Well here is one of those girly [...]