Geek gatekeeping is about the variety of ways that geekdom is defined to exclude women.
- Girl stuff - not truly geeky.
- Women are accused of being fake geek girls.
- Women are assumed to be here with my boyfriend.
- The assumption that women are geeks' partners is a pervasive one in commentary on geek topics - rather than geeks in their own right.
- Hence terms like girlfriend mode.
- This leads some women to be reluctant to admit to genuinely having boyfriend-transmitted geekdom, because of stereotype threat!
See also
- No true Scotsman fallacy