Girls Tech in Fashion Pages

Disclaimer: I went to meet some friends for drinks.The drinks ended earlier then I wanted to, and now I am lying on my back half-pissed typing into my lap. So yeah, don't hate.

Mary Hodder posted about this article, and was quite critical of it's placement in the Fashion section of the New York Times. "Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain" is about young ladies who make pretty stuff for the web. Hodder's point was that technologists who are men, usually get listed in Section like Business, and uh yeah, Technology.

Normally, I would be in total agreement with Mary, but having read the article I have to concur with the editors decision. It's not 'technically' a technology article. It's about young women who create content for the web, in fact who create trend-setting content for the web. So while it's definitely a hybrid topic, I'd say for the young women interviewed, they'd be more stoked to see their work with technology to produce fashionable schwag for the user-based web, featured in a Fashion Spread, then in the dull as durt, Business section.

I think it is interesting as a feminist to see discourses like fashion being infiltrated by geekiness, and as much as it may seem retrograde, I think it's actually more revolutionary to be featuring hot geeky chicks as fashion icons. This is yes, despite the fact that I strongly objected to having my photo taken by an unidentified male photog at the recent geek girls dinner. You just can't win can you boys?