Andrew Dobson drew this comic about some of the amazing women who have helped shape geek culture throughout history! Here’s what he had to say:
“So much of geek/nerd culture has been shaped by women over the years, and yet people often overlook it all. They’ve not part of some new “SJW agenda”, they’ve been there since the beginning.”
Artist: Andrew Dobson
Love the whole thing. Except that Lucille Ball did not finance nor greenlight Star Trek specfically.
Sources would say otherwise:
1. https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-trek-documentary-lucille-ball
2. https://www.startrek.com/news/how-lucille-ball-helped-star-trek-become-a-cultural-icon
3. https://www.businessinsider.com/lucille-ball-is-the-reason-we-have-star-trek-heres-what-happened-2016-7
4. https://www.newsweek.com/star-trek-lower-decks-back-lucille-ball-made-show-1523323
“The masked vigilante genre” isn’t quite what Baroness Orczy created, what with her hero not being a masked vigilante. He was a master of disguise, he didn’t wear a mask. It’s more fair to say she established the idea of the hero with a secret identity.
At the heart of geekery is the rapid response pedantry.