The Joy of Speed Dating at Comic Con
The people who attend conventions catering to geeks—like the bustling celebration of video games, graphic novels, and anime that was last month's New York Comic Con—don't have the best reputations in the wider culture. Straight male devotees are generally portrayed as awkward, socially inept, and pervy, a strange hybrid of The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy and a subway flasher. The female geeks (if they are shown at all) don't come off as much better, seen either as weird, freaky, or awkward—think Charlyne Yi in Knocked Up and Zooey Deschanel in New Girl—or as overly sexualized cosplayers, like the perennially popular Slave Leia.
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