Media Re:public

Someone from the audience (you go, girl) finally mentions that there are 6 young white guys moderated by one older white guy. The responses include:
“girls have better things to do”
“girls are smarter”
“girls are not allowed to be funny”
“there will soon be lots more girls on the Internet”
“girls are weaned on Barbie, girls are weaned on GI Joe, and encouraged to take computers and go”
“I guess we’ll have to keep talking about this until we don’t have to anymore”

And now the last question from the audience, a young black man “first things first black people do use the Internet”
The Tron guy says something about “young ladies.” The Tron guy mystifies me.

Many of the panelists do seem to sincerely mean that the fact that they got famous is “stupid” and that girls are less stupid. Not a bad point.

tags: ROFLCon2008