I have trouble getting 'excited'...

[Waxxpaper]

...about the show. BUT I WISH I COULD! It could be awesome.


I like what they are doing (all female tech show), but I can't watch it, and it makes me feel weirdly guilty for not being able to like it. I'm 100% behind the show hosts, and I want to see it, but for some reason I always drift off while watching. It just doesn't hold my interest. Granted, the show isn't 'meant' for men, but I still want to like the show, and would like to recommend it to people, but some things just aren't working.


They need to decide on a format. Is the show going to be about how women can be geeks too, or how to do DIY in a 'geek' way for women (to appease the dorks they are stuck with)? There is a huge difference there, and I get the impression that they tend to the latter. It all just seems like they are trying to prove something that doesn't need proved (if that makes any sense). Can't women be geeks without having to build something to prove it?



Personally, I would rather watch a segment on what the gals think about lightsabers, than see what somebody did to build one. If I wanted to see DIY, I would watch one of the hundreds of channels out there for that. DIY has its places, but limiting the female geeks here to just another DIY cheapens the experience. Whats wrong with just shooting the shit, and talking about something, anything?


Sorry, that was completely random. Keep up the good work ladies.

[BattleMage]

Good conversation starting post :)

I'm not sure what the format of the show is, being new myself.. but I've watched most the episodes so far :) I also happen to be a girl, I also really enjoy the show, but I enjoy a lot of shows here on Revision3. Popsiren is still a new show and they have some developing to do as the show grows, naturally - I love their scientist! *Random*. Lol, I'm usually cleaning or trying to hem when I'm watching, and when I'm showed a good link, I get up and pause it, and either save it to favorites or check it out then. I enjoy watching the women interact. There's not enough techy women around my parts so it's interesting for me to see how they communicate.

I think the later format you mentioned makes more sense and there should be a show aimed at showing misunderstood women about the glories of gaming/tech/awesomeness. And if there is one, please guide me because our gaming group n33ds it, for the sake of the nerds! So here is my two sense about why women need to understand gaming/tech as a big geek myself, in a relationship with a huge geek, and are friends with pretty nerdy geeks. The fact that I am a geek allows me a connection with everyone (geek lol) that I don't experience anywhere else. We just go off an beyond with our imaginations and theories, and about the things we really enjoy. Total mental turn on!

I have many friends who's nerd potential is slowed down by the women they are with (women who don't understand geekieness), total mind cock-block. It's like the women who want to be a relationship see his geeky habits as something that takes time away from her, and she now feels threatened, bored, mad, and then starts to hate gaming/geekieness all together, protesting against something she doesn't understand.. I've actually been studying the behavioral patterns in this.

It's a commitment to be a geek, it really is. So now, in her mind, she's not only in bed with her guy, she in bed with a whole other person, the geek. Then she starts to notice the other women gamer geeks and illogically starts conjuring up in her feline mind that we are threatening the nest just by existing. And then she starts telling him he can't hang out with his geeky friends (regardless if other women geeks are involved) and starts micromanaging his life because she feels he can't make normal decisions on his own. That if she allowed him to, he would continue to waste his life pursuing pointless hobbies instead of providing for their future. -No really, I've sat down and spoke with the lot of them.

It's a horrible story, but within the last five years it has literally happened approximately 20 times. So maybe if they target bringing women into tech and the like, that would be productive. It certainly would be for our gaming groups! However, I don't want to see the show slow down in it's awesomeness so the laggers can catch up XD. I think Popsiren is a show on it's own currently, aimed at women geeks, empowering other women geeks to let flow their geekieselves.

Maybe they should have a segment aimed at why gaming/tech/nerdiness is 1337, but not dedicate the whole show to it. Perhaps, a separate show for that??.. Also I don't think they should even have a segment about how to appease the dorks that they're with because that isn't about what women geekieness should be about. It should be about teaching the little birdies to fly and find their own nerdy interests so the guy can admire them for the individual geek that they've become. That's much more empowering then just trying to keep up with your man.

Now after I've used the word geek so many times.. I don't think I am going to say that word for about 2 weeks, XD. But after having rambled along here, I'm wondering if them having too solid of a format makes it too left brained, and thus too male dominated, for the women to sit back and just experience.

[Cacogen]

It all just seems like they are trying to prove something that doesn't need proved (if that makes any sense). Can't women be geeks without having to build something to prove it?



I think I know what you mean. And, they don't need to prove their intelligence or seriousness -- "gravitas," or whatever -- by pretending to be fascinated by developments in vertebrate taxonomy, if they don't happen to be.

[Murphy1d]

I think I know what you mean. And, they don't need to prove their intelligence or seriousness -- "gravitas," or whatever -- by pretending to be fascinated by developments in vertebrate taxonomy, if they don't happen to be.

We have hit the point of confusion between a "pull" based show where the weekly format is finding something cool, and a "push" based show where stories get submitted and there is a review of whether its cool or not.

Diggnation and TRS are "push" shows. Social Brew (to an extent) and Internet Superstar are "pull" based shows. Pull-shows are muuuuch harder to create than push-shows. Don't think so, try putting out a newsletter every week and see what happens.

inDigital was a good example of how to mix both. They reviewed the newest and gave cool tips too. popSiren is trying to do the same, but you have trouble deciding when they are saying "its cool" because they have to fill space and when they really are excited about the story.

[bigshotprof]

Well, iittle Waxxpaper, I think you might just be too young.

[ICE CREAM]

Well, iittle Waxxpaper, I think you might just be too young.
Quit patronizing people. This statement was quite rude. I consider it flaming and I will report it.

[scott88008]

It's all a matter of taste. I was extremely disappointed when Tech TV went off the air but now with Popsiren and Tekzilla I'm in tech geek heaven! In my humble opinion these two shows blow anything Tech TV ever did out of the water. And to top it off they're in High Def! Thank-you so much for your hard work everybody. Sarah was my favorite host on The Screensavers and Jessica is the perfect contrast for her. I didn't really appreciate Jessica when she was on G4 but now I'm absolutely loving her. There's no accounting for tastes as they say but I'm unable to fathom how anyone interested in technology would not be absolutely thrilled with what they've created here.

[r3v]

Quit patronizing people. This statement was quite rude. I consider it flaming and I will report it.

I considered it a joke, based on Wax's avatar... but that's just my interpretation.

[bigshotprof]

I considered it a joke, based on Wax's avatar... but that's just my interpretation.

That was exactly what I was going for, nothing more. I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended. That was the last thing on my mind.