Girls with Big Books

Over the last few days we’ve been posting articles with thoughts about the girls we like and don’t like on TV and in video games. That is a series of posts that will continue and examine other media as well, but today we wanted to bring you a YouTube-video instead.

It is an insanely popular video, so at first we saw no reason to put it up here too. But when I found out that some of my close friends hadn’t even heard of it yet, I felt that I had to do my part in bringing it out to the unfortunate people who have yet not heard it. Thus I present to you Kate “Alpinekat” McAlpine’s “Large Hadron Rap”:

I don’t like rap at all, but if more of it had lyrics like these I might listen to it more. And Kate McAlpine is really the kind of girl that Girls with Big Books is all about. Continue Reading »

Video games have always been plagued by the fact that people write what they know.

Writing what you know is usually a good thing, but the custom did somewhat hinder the development of interesting female figures in video games. Not to overly stereotype, but for most of the history of video game development, the developers have been men with a high probability of being single. So the developers haven’t had all that much knowledge about women, so there just haven’t been very many female characters, and the ones that have been have tended to be very boring stereotypes.

History of Video Games – From Bad to Better

For much of video game history women mainly appeared in the role of the helpless damsel in distress, like for instance Princess Peach from the Super Mario-games. The girl was nothing more than a plot device; a MacGuffin to search for, to keep the game moving forward, with little or no personality of their own.

Princess Peach - Professional Damsel in Distress

After that came many appearances of an opposite stereotype; the violent, buxom vixens. While the damsel in distress type of character is cute, innocent and helpless, the violent vixens are always overtly sexy, scantily clad and very effective killing machines. They are usually just as two-dimensional and boring as their helpless counterparts.

Vinyl Goddess from Mars - No, really

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The web is filled with articles written by people who praise women in the entertainment industry based solely on their beauty. They profess their love for various women for no other reason than that they look good.

Now, we here at Girls with Big Books appreciate beauty too, but we want more. Beauty isn’t really important, and besides, the entertainment industry is filled with nothing but beautiful people, so it’s such a boring thing to concentrate on.

We want openly intelligent and preferably nerdy girls, because that is what we find attractive. That’s why we are beginning this series of posts about our favorite nerdy girls, to help promote that and to balance all those articles about people’s girls who are hot in a more traditional sense.

Today we begin with a couple of examples of what or opinion is about some women we see on TV. Continue Reading »

This blog is slowly starting to take shape.

An about-page has been added with some information about what this blog actually is.

A “mission statement”-page has also been added with some information on why this blog exists.

There is also a page with contact information, if you want to get in touch with us through other means than comments.

Hopefully we will start updating the actual blog with entertaining posts during the week, and hopefully updates will happen fairly regularly after that. Please check in again if this site seems interesting to you.