For some reason a switch flipped in my head over the last week or so

I left a comment about gender inequality on the Make magazine blog! I don't know if I worded it perfectly, but. And I don't know that I would've felt brave enough to do that a few weeks ago. I've also been commenting on the latest RaceFail posts--judiciously, for the most part, trying to aim for the low-hanging fruit 101-level derailing/naive stuff that I can debunk relatively easily. I don't know. I think that the voice in my head that says that talking about serious ideas wasn't something for me to do has quieted down a bit. I think that a big part of it was signing up here--it just kicked me out of a rut that'd been getting narrower and narrower. So, um, yay?

I REALLY should be asleep right now, but there are things I want to make posts about in the future. They are All About Me, but that's one of the things a journal is for, eh?

Things to write about:

-Oh Hai, my very-me-specific worldviews and where I think some of them are from (the West, living in several places growing up, the Forest Service, other stuff)
-inventory of the crafty things I have tried, liked, want to try, am good at, am terrible at, etc.
-thoughts on the "I'm not a Gamer, but I play some games, I'm not a Reader, but I read some stuff" thing that's in my head
-being a jack-of-all-trades, thinking about how to feel multifaceted instead of fragmented/scattered

On the subject of authors having feet of clay

So, a while ago, I got the book She's Such A Geek and, while I didn't read every single essay in it because Oh Hai My Short Attention Span--a lot of the book really made me happy. Many different types of female geek, from science to engineering to gaming, and not all straight and white and able-bodied and cisgendered (though many of them were those things) were talking about stuff I'd been going through and thinking about and noticing while I was at MIT. Their experiences either rang really true because I'd had similar ones or seen friends having them, or gave me what felt like valuable insight into female geekdom from different eras and from cultural backgrounds I was less familiar with. I glowingly recommended it to a few geeky friends who were working through gender/feminism stuff.

And so finding out one of the editors has some glaring and problematic issues that she thinks are good things! to proclaim loudly and publicly! about trans people was very very GAH. Especially since in this case her name is on the cover but a bunch of (as far as I know) independent-and-unrelated-to-her voices (of people who presumably don't necessarily share her problematic ideas about trans people) are in the book. I like talking about the intersection of feminism and gender and geekiness, and I am troubled that someone with skeevy (to me) ideas about trans people is at the forefront of what I thought of as a really important work on the subject. And I'm not entirely sure what to do about it. I mean, I think that everyone else's work in the anthology should stand on its own, but her name is still on the cover. Should I say something when I recommend the book to other geeks? Should I not recommend it? Do I keep recommending it and not say anything about her other issues and hope that people who research her can do their own work in separating the uncomfortable stuff she's said from the awesomeness of all of the stories in the collection? (I'm not actually asking my reading list to answer these for me--these are the questions I have to resolve for myself.)

Bah.

Anyone have links or book recs on the feminism/gender/geek topic?