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Permalink | 174 notes caraobrien: justthetipoffeminism: “This is the cover for the current issue of Wired magazine. The woman on the cover isn’t just a model in the traditional sense: She’s Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, and very possibly the first woman engineer to grace the cover of Wired. And she looks good on it. So, some people freaked out.”  Why the Internet Freaked Out About the Lady Nerd on This Month’s WiredCover “But, more interesting is what it says about the ways ultra-smart woman are perceived. What’s implicit in Good’s outrage is the assumption that Fried, badass engineer and genius, couldn’t have possibly been as attractive as she appears on Wired’s cover. The underlying message is that there has to be a distance between brains and beauty.” Because if you’re smart and a woman, you must be unattractive. Any woman looking attractive while being smart is engaging in witchcraft and photoshop. 

caraobrien:

justthetipoffeminism:

“This is the cover for the current issue of Wired magazine. The woman on the cover isn’t just a model in the traditional sense: She’s Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, and very possibly the first woman engineer to grace the cover of Wired. And she looks good on it. So, some people freaked out.” 

Why the Internet Freaked Out About the Lady Nerd on This Month’s WiredCover

“But, more interesting is what it says about the ways ultra-smart woman are perceived. What’s implicit in Good’s outrage is the assumption that Fried, badass engineer and genius, couldn’t have possibly been as attractive as she appears on Wired’s cover. The underlying message is that there has to be a distance between brains and beauty.”

Because if you’re smart and a woman, you must be unattractive. Any woman looking attractive while being smart is engaging in witchcraft and photoshop. 

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