This SNM (SexyNerdMonday) interview is with the very sexy, very chill, and very talented Heather1337. Heather is new to the cosplay world, but is quickly making a name for herself. Be sure to check out her fan page Here, and while your there head over to NerdChotic’s fan page and click the like botton. 

               Don’t miss Heather 1337 very entertaining interview vid. below.  

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Happy SNM from your family here at NerdChotic. I am very please to have today’s post be about the great Jean Gomez. Jean is a cosplayer from the west coast who soon will be bigger than alot of the great names out there. Obviously you can see her beauty, but what makes her so great are the things you might not see at first sight. I think we all can agree that she looks great in costume, but she is also a huge Comic book Nerd that is somewhat bashful. In her SNM interview video below you will notice this shyness, but also the passion that is hidden inside of her. I talked to her and promise that I am the NerdChotic family will do what ever we can to help her bring the entire inner nerd out. 

Check out the Interview Vid. As well as NerdChotic Facebook page at (NerdHerd) and you can find Jean at (Jean G of NerdChotic). 

Thanks for liking and I hope you enjoy. 

Beautiful cosplayer Mandy Caruso speaks out about harassment at Con.

It’s Monday, so let’s talk SNM. We have no interview for today, but instead a story. If your a follower of NerdChotic no matter if it’s here on our site, Facebook, Twitter, or even InstaGram, then you know we post tons of pictures of very attractive cosplay girls wearing next to nothing. Our biggest goal, and main focus when doing so is to make sure our followers are getting the rite view from these photos. The woman wear these outfits, that dress in these costumes, and pose for these photos are human. They eat, sleep ,and feel as you do. Just because they are beautiful, busty, and brainy (Nerd Shout out) while wearing revealing clothes doesn’t mean its ok for you to treat they like low lifes and degrade them in any form. I know personaly from some of the great women I have interview here at NerdChotic that these ladies are some of the brightest, strongest, and motivated people in the world who already face name calling and rudeness just because they are attractive. Because of these amazing women cosplay has become sexy, and it has become the cool thing to do, how about we don’t ruin that. 

Sorry for the rant but recently an amazing 22 year old freelance fashion and costume designer named Mandy Caruso from New York spoke out about something that happened to her recently at NYCC. I have seen things like this first hand, and its time to stop. 

In the words of Mandy Caruso:

At Comic Con today, I went as Black Cat. This is a shitty picture and there will be better ones of my whole costume coming up but I just want to say something.

Black Cat’s costume has a fair amount of cleavage (conservative compared to many other female comic characters but a good amount as far as what I’ve ever shown). I guess I was not surprised to have a couple men ask to pose with me and then do some doofy “WHOA LOOK AT THOSE KNOCKERS” poses. I just make a really ugly face when I see they’re doing it. One guy with the social graces of a lemur said to me “I was this close to wearing that same outfit. My breasts are large and supple and I think it would have been nice.” Nope. Stop talking.

But aside from guys being doofy and awkward (but clearly not foul-intentioned), I did have my first truly skeezy experience at Comic Con today.

And my first truly empowering moment as well.

This group of men from some kind of Stan Lee fan club blah blah internet video channel blah blah asked to interview with them on camera about Comic Con. I said well okay, sure. Camera is rolling. The “host” is a middle aged, rotund dude. It’s an all-male crew and lots of people (mostly guys) were beginning to crowd around. The following is the interview as burned in my mind. Keep in mind that I expected this to be about Comic Con in general.

• Him: I’m here with…
• Me: Mandy, aka Felicia Hardy aka Black Cat
• Him: ..And she is HOT. Do you think I’m hot enough to pull that off?
• Me: Uh, I’m not sure, I’ve never seen you in drag.
• Him: I’ve got a great ass. Go on, spank me.
• Me: (look at his large ass, popped up mere inches away from me then look into the camera like are you kidding me . No thanks. I may hurt you, I’m a lot stronger than I look.
• Him: Aw come on!
• Me: No, seriously. Stop.
• Him: Damn, alright! Well let me ask you an important question then…what is your cup size?
• Me: (big talk show smile) That is actually none of your fucking business.
• Him: Oh! I think that means to say she’s a C.
• Me: I actually have no breasts at all, what you see is just all of the fat from my midsection pulled up to my chest and carefully held in place with this corset. It’s really uncomfortable, I don’t know why I do it.
• Him: (to the male crowd) Aw, come on what do you guys think? C cup?
• —a few males start to shout out cup sizes as I stand there looking at this guy like this has to be a fucking joke, then look at the crowd and see that no amount of witty banter or fiestiness will stop making this whole thing fucking dumb. It was clearly a ploy to single out cosplaying women to get them to talk sexual innuendos and flirt with this asshole and let him talk down to them simply because they were in costume and were attractive. Whether I’m in a skintight catsuit or not, I’m a fucking professional in everything I do and I don’t need to play nice for this idiot.
• Me: This is not an interview, this is degrading. I’m done. (I walk away)
• Him: (clearly dumbfounded and surprised) ..Come on, it’s all in good fun!
• Me: Being degraded is fun? That was unprofessional and I hope that isn’t your day job because you can’t interview for shit, my man.

And the entire crew and the crowd were SILENT. NOTHING. SHOCK, HONEY. It felt like I was in a heated fog, full of rage and pride and I sashayed away feeling like the most badass motherfucker in the whole damn room, but kind of also on the verge of tears. A slow build of applause would have been appropriate, but from the looks on people’s faces, they were just completely not expecting me to do what I just did- which was really nothing more than speaking up for myself. It wasn’t something one should feel brave for doing but crazy for not doing when necessary.

It’s because many people at these cons expect women cosplaying as vixens (or even just wearing particularly flattering costumes) to be open/ welcoming to crude male commentary and lecherous ogling, like our presence comes with subtitles that say “I represent your fantasy thus you may treat me like a fantasy and not a human in a costume”. And maybe that will always be how the majority of people see us. But that does not mean we have to put up with shit that crosses the line, it does not mean we owe them a fantasy, it does not mean we dress up to have guys drooling over us and letting us know that we turn them on. It is not all about your dicks, gentlemen. So I encourage cosplaying women everywhere to be blunt and vocal with their rights, their personal boundaries, and their comfort level at conventions. I actually encourage girls to be brashly shameless about these things, to not be afraid to speak up if you feel uncomfortable and to let the person doing it know that they are crossing the line. Don’t keep quiet because you’re scared of what they might say or think- because if you say nothing they will continue to see what they’re doing as OK.