Something about Paris Hilton always looks very 2002. She just does not evolve stylistically, and it's never more evident as at Coachella every year.

Yeah, I'd say the guy is trolling, but he's pretty insistent in other areas so... I dunno.

Way late to this convo, but Ari, you are right, as always.

I know, right? I think another term for "equal equality" (other than "redundancy") is "false equivalency". Women who are passionate about things don't get to participate in these things because men want a place where women aren't? That means all we're allowed is our girls' nights and our "women's clubs" (ZZZZZZZZ).…

BIRD NERD here. The birding world is very male-dominated, but I have a lot of female birder friends that are total badass bitches. A lot of male birders complain to me that they want to date female birders (WHY?), but there aren't enough of us. Half the time when guys approach me in a birding setting it's not because…

I'm not totally sure if this is across-the-board accurate, but I'd say that tabletop gaming has a pretty good mix of genders at this point. Originally I saw a lot more men than women—and I was the only girl I knew playing until well into high school. But ever since White Wolf got popular, I've been seeing a lot more…

Shhh, I'm femsplaining. Let's see if we can trick him into thinking that women are people, with different personalities, flaws, and virtues. Maybe if we all just shout over him enough, he won't notice the way women are creeping into all the places that used to be safe for men to be men.

I like that you're trying to expand upon the simile here. Your optimism is great. :-P

"Girls are people."

If a bunch of white guys were complaining about Indians playing DND and saying it was a game for white people only, Indians aren't good at it and therefore Indian men shouldn't butt in, you'd call that racist right? You'd be offended that your skill level was perceived as non-existent based on your ethnicity wouldn't…

OK, it sounds like your frustration is that you feel that these girlfriends are disrupting the dynamic of your group, right? So, ignoring the misogyny of your insinuation that all girls are whiny nerd wannabes, would you say that girls aren't allowed to play D&D, or that you don't want your friends bringing over…

You're kind of all over the place, but I'll just single out the girlfriend at the gaming session paragraph. My wife was "that" girl 3 years ago and not only is she now a GM, but has been a regional gaming coordinator and taught GMing classes at Gencon. Girls are just people and you never know what they might end up…

I knew you'd get me to LOL at some point on this thread.

ONLY MEN GET TO ENJOY MY HOBBIES. >:-O

And for your information, I'm an Indian from South Asia and not a white dude. We have no white people in our group, its 3 Arabs, 1 African American, and 1 Turkish guy.

But do you really know as much about science? I subscribe to /r/science on reddit.

Music doesn't belong to men. Men don't get to exclude women from music. That's not a thing. Sorry brah.

My favorite was someone claiming that my wife wasn't "really" a Star Wars fan. When I said that she had read more of the books than anyone I knew, they were like, "Well... did she read this one comic I read?"

For real. I had some guy on OKC (surprisingly :|) tell me that I wasn't a nerd, I was just a pretty girl who has nerdy hobbies. I'm an astrophysicist.

If a guy dresses up at Comicon, he's a cool cosplayer. Double points if he's fit and goes as a character who's muscular. If a woman does it, she's an attention whore and a fake.