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Author: pinkdalek

Nov 10th 2011 at 9:38:10 AM

@[=Bisected8=]: No no no no no on all of those. [[NoJustNo No forever]].

A female hacker doesn't have to be attractive. I know most women in fiction are stupidly attractive, but words like 'cutie' and 'minx' and 'diva' is just encouraging this to TropeDecay into a list of female hackers (I can think of at least a handful where their femininity is not remarked upon at all). Besides which, it's a DoubleStandards trope, it's a patronising trope, so while mildly patronising language (like "Hackette") is okay to reflect the sprit that the trope is done in, going totally over the top patronising by talking about the [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty hacker's attractiveness, which she may not even have, just becomes fetishistic and offensive]]. The important part is the ''hacker'', not that she has the potential, being female, for also being sexy to heterosexual men.

/punches self for StrawFeminist screed

Honestly, though, the 'cute' titles are demeaning, sexist, misleading and inappropriate for that the trope is actually about. Whatever you do, please don't do that.

I think this trope is related to {{GIRL}}.