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uhnope

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Sun Jun 1, 2014, 04:39 PM Jun 2014

Arthur Chu on nerd culture & misogyny

Last edited Sun Jun 1, 2014, 08:14 PM - Edit history (1)

It's a "Good Listen" instead of a "Good Read," a podcast well worth eight minutes of your time, from Canada's CBC, on how we need to identify and fight misogyny the same as we would anti-Semiticism, etc: :
http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2014/05/30/arthur-chu-on-nerd-culture-and-misogyny/

Arthur Chu gained fame as a champion on the game show Jeopardy! with an aggressive and winning style that made him a poster-boy for the nerd sub-culture. Brent spoke to Chu about his thought-provoking Daily Beast essay "Your Princess Is In Another Castle", written this week in response to the murders in Santa Barbara and aimed squarely at his own tribe - young male nerds.
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