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I was really enjoying the Geektastic anthology. It had a bunch of the best YA authors in it, including Holly Black and my beloved David Leviathon. And then.... sigh. There's a story fairly late in the anthology called "The Truth About Dino Girl." The heroine of the story publicly humiliates another girl for being sexually active. This is portrayed as empowering and good. Um...ick. And now I'm noticing that for all the gay inclusiveness, there are very few POC geeks on the cover art or explicitly inside. I'm thinking there were your classic Asian math/science nerd stereotypes, but not all that much else with the exception of the asian Klingon. Suddenly, I'm thinking Geektastic isn't geektastic at all, which pisses me off as there were several strong stories in there that had enough meat to them that I've been mulling them over in my spare time.