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#15: Hey we got a new logo!!!!

Quick apology to begin with there might be some banging in the background, we did get rid of most of it but there is still some, I hope you can bear with us, during the episode.

So we had a lot of plans that fell through.  But we did get to see some movies, of course we both saw Thor: Ragnarok, but Kat did not see Justice League, and Lea refuses to see The Last Jedi.  She refuses to see any Star Wars movies.

There has been a lot of high power people who have been in the news lately due to sexual abuse allegations; one of them being a singer Melanie Martinez who was accused of raping her friend.  We begin discussing the impact it has had on fans, as well as the importance of talking to younger fans about this before they read it on facebook or see it on youtube.

We get to discuss some of what we liked in each movie, as well as some of the familial aspects of the movies.

Happy Holidays from Geek Family Therapy and Happy New Year

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NY Comic Con

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#12: Lea, Kat & Shannon ( the man behind the curtain of GFT) went to New York Comic Con.  On Thursday and Friday the floor was busy but not so busy that it was hard to walk, but on Saturday and Sunday, the press of bodies was insane, making it nearly impossible to walk.  Lea discusses some of the craziness that is cosplaying during a con.  Kat discusses con plague prevention with the use of respirators like the one she got from http://www.un-re.com/   All the things on the page are handmade.

Kat and Leah got to interview Jason Porath the author and creator of Reject Princesses.  http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/

Kat attempted to get the book on Friday from Jason at artist Alley and he had already sold out on Thursday night.  By Friday night Harper-Collins had sold out of the book as well.  Jason was very nice and offered to answer some questions for the podcast.  The interview was during Sunday…. A notoriously busy day at NYCC due to the fact that it is still considered family day at the con.  This is the day that people will normally bring their children so the amount of people is insane.

If you haven’t heard of Rejected Princesses, check out the sight.  Or https://www.facebook.com/rejectedprincesses/ or search Tumblr for Rejected Princesses.  You can buy  the book from Amazon or Barnes & Noble as well it’s hard cover, it’s 384 pages, it’s not recommended for children, and the books go by rating, so the more graphic, the further in the back the story would be.

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Character Alignments pt 1

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#11: This is the episode before NYCC.  Both Leah and Kat have been going for years, and they will be attending again.  There will be, of course, a NYCC exclusive episode discussing family’s who attend conventions, as well family’s who cosplay together.  The plan, maybe speak to family’s on Sunday, which used to be called Family Day.

Not that this is completely off what we would normally talk about but we are discussing Character Alignment.  This episode focuses solely on the good character alignment.   Kat used to play D&D frequently with her Best Friend as the DM and several other friends, playing for hours (usually from 7 pm to somewhere around 6 am) .

After the comic con episode GFT will record the next two episodes, and of course finally discuss the importance of character alignment within D&D and..

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Finding yourself in pop culture and Ghost hunting

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#7: Kat got to explore one of her fandoms, geeky likes, nerd like passions… whatever you want to call it… But she went to see Eastern State Penitentiary.  It is a jail that was built in 1829 and closed in 1971.  This did pique Kat’s love of history (especially haunted history) and some psychological aspects in learning that when the prison first opened everyone was brought in to single cells with hoods on their heads so no one knew who they were, and their exercise yard was attached to their cells….individual exercise yards. Imagine doing 15 years of solitary confinement,  because that is what it is.

Lea and Kat sat and discussed the importance of being able to find super hero’s or any comic character that look like us. The importance of being able to see that even though we are minorities that we can find someone to look up to even if they are make believe.  In therapy we use pop figures (not really Funko Pops) to help get children who do not know how to verbally identify their emotions to at least begin with physical representation with characters such as Winnie the pooh or Kat’s  favorites the emotes.  (www.emotes.com), little action figure monsters that help children, identify, understand and express their emotions. Kat loves these toys.  But with some of our  older clients toys aren’t good enough Kat  has utilized Comicspedia to help find comic books that will help clients express themselves by having similar situations the children might be going through.  www.comicspedia.net Lastly Kat mentions Geek Therapy’s own data base they are still compiling, which when complete will have access to The Geek Therapy library can be found https://www.geektherapy.com/?s=library

If you are like Kat and are trying to find more Latino/a superhero check out buzzfeeds list of the 15 top Latino Superhero’s you need to know

https://www.buzzfeed.com/pablovaldivia/incredible-latino-superheroes-you-need-to-know?utm_term=.doPg1Y0K6#.tiJVpwOE5

If you know any please let us know on our twitter

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Family of choice vs. Family of origin

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#6: Family of origin is the people who we are born into, or marry into.  While Family of Choice are the people that we choose to have involved in out lives.  These people will become like siblings, uncles, aunts or even surrogate parents for us.

In fiction family of choice is often used to help create a family with people that they have more in common with, especially when the main character has developed some type of supernatural powers.  The new family shares similar powers or secrets.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyOfChoice

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Level 60 Bikini Virgin Killer Sweater

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#4: Why when I play a female fighter or wizard or ranger or whatever when I play a video game the higher level my character is the less armor my character seems to be wearing.   My armor class is higher, that is cool, but it looks like I’m riding through Azeroth naked, or in a bikini.

But when you pick up the armor in any dungeon, it will look like a really cool breast plate, or chain mail pants and when you put it on it’s like a loincloth.   Is this what guys are looking for?

Anyway these costumes are not practical. Women in comic books, anime, video games really do allow for more movement but other than that they do not allow for more protection.   In comic books our super hero’s are dressed in belts and straps. Boys idolize these looks but do not women to actually dress like this.  They would prefer women to be dressed like the movie version of Gamora.     So fully clothed in real life and naked every other time.  Women are made to fit roles that are forced on them in society.   But when women follow the role and embraces it, she is ridiculed and demeaned.  http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1216223-virgin-killing-sweater . This sweater was created in a meme from a cosplayer, and now has gone insane.  Many cosplayers, have purchased it and done photoshoots in it.  Of course there have been trolls who anonymously behind their computer screen safely tucked behind their laptops, they insult these cosplayers or degrade them.  There are 155 million Americans who play games regularly and out of that, 48% of them are female.  When approximately half of the gamers being female,  it is still not ” safe” for female gamers.  It’s not just small insults of being called a noob or loser, when a man knows a woman is playing games it is rape jokes and insulting their looks, even though they don’t know how they look.    But, why would they think that a woman should be treated any different from their “naked” characters in a game.

This episode will discuss more of how the media continues to allow these

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