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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 7651588" data-attributes="member: 1846">Really glad the video provoked such a response! It was a fun couple of days interviewing and talking to people about it all. And another round of public thanks from me to Our Esteemed Editor for putting me on first!Much of what I'd put in a post here I've already said in the video, of course, but I think it's interesting that in this thread (which is overwhelmingly sensible and well thought-out) I'm still seeing some of the same stuff, although at a much lower level. Frankly, my opinion is that it doesn't matter what I think of someone else who is doing something geeky. At a convention? Great! Playing D&D? Great? Missing what I think are common and obvious references? So what? It's got absolutely nothing to do with me. If someone says to me "I'm a geek!" then they're a geek. I do not need to ask questions or have them justify it in any way, it's simply not important to me.And that, in a nutshell, is why this topic irritates me so much. I simply don't think about how geeky someone is when I meet them at GenCon, or playing boardgames in London, or online. Their gender is utterly irrelevant to me - what matters is the person in front of me, how they act, what they say, how they game. I'll treat an irritating or arrogant women exactly the same as an irritating or arrogant man.</blockquote>