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Sexist Rants Against “Fake Geek Girls” Hit New Low

Fake geek girls are going to have a harder time than ever “pretending” to like geek culture in order to seduce geek men. The list of wary, ever-alert men with their eyes on you has increased by two—with a third adding himself back onto the list.

Meet threatened male geek #1: Starmancreator Tony Harris—or, as his Facebook titles him, Tony Effing Harris. The five-time Eisner-nominee wants female cosplayers to know that he is sick and tired of them preying upon “average comic book fans”—read: white dudes—and that the number of fans who feel disenfranchised by their general existence are “LEGION.” Yes. LEGION.

Harris, who worked on Iron Man, launched into a rambling diatribe on his Facebook last night. The screed against “fake” female cosplayers baffled and enraged many commenters and Internet denizens while causing many of his own (male) readers to congratulate him for his honesty.

At first, we wondered if the revered comics artist had been hacked; after all, it’shappened before. But no, there he is in comments, explaining, “I know SOME Cosplay gals who are legit. Just too few….”

“Wow, way to lump some of the bad seeds into one bit group,” commented the Mary Sue’s Jill Pantozzi, one of several comics writers who were stalked and harassed recently by a misogynist troll. “A lot of us who cosplay do know what the hell comics are all about. I’ve been a huge fan of yours for years but this is ridiculous.”

Meanwhile, Harris opines, “I mean Jeezus, the one time i ever ‘tried’  to get a bit racy with Chicks in my Comic Art was in Machina with a Artist/Activist character that I put into a Wifebeater-T, NOT wearing a bra ( she was alone, in her studio, Welding….) and I got crucified by the reviewing press/Fans!”

Harris seems magically unaware that numerous members of the online geek community have spoken out against the advent of so-called “fake geek girls” and “booth babes” in comics and gaming culture—most famously Joe Peacock, who held a total tantrum-cum-meltdown on the subject on Geekout. He apologized after drawing backlash from the Internet at large for claiming that “booth babes” were ruining geek culture.

But Peacock’s apology seems as shallow as a scantily clad Batwoman cosplayer, because he not only shared Harris’ rant on his own Facebook with a mighty “This. This this this this this THIS THIS THIS,” he commented to Harris with, “Gee, this sounds familiar. Glad to know we relate on yet another thing, Tony Effing Harris.”

Read more at the Daily Dot!  

I’ll just leave this here:

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I don’t know shit about comics but I do know that this dude is a massive dickwad and he and his hetero white man tears of oppression can kindly sit the fuck down. 

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