How does having a PhD make someone a geek?
This whole thread is frankly quite stupid and full of stereotyping.
[Rant] Can we please stop this "is she a REAL geek lol" bullshit?
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How does having a PhD make someone a geek?
This whole thread is frankly quite stupid and full of stereotyping.
I play The Secret WorldI'm back at playing CoH since no one was playing Secret World.
BananaHands
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Shut up, nerds.
After seven pages the answer to the thread title is obviously "NO"
GasBandit
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Critical Miss attempts to address this issue today. While the sentiment is laudable, the execution is flawed.
That works more on a sexism angle than what this is about, so I see what you mean.Critical Miss attempts to address this issue today. While the sentiment is laudable, the execution is flawed.
North_Ranger
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Just read through the thread... and I see that geekdom is apparently serious business.
Maybe this is just a reaction to the fact that being a geek/nerd/connoisseur of [insert fandom here] has pretty much gone mainstream. You have awesome sci-fi shows, you have movies like Lord of the Rings, TV series like The Game of Thrones, huge-ass sales of video games, millions worldwide playing WoW... It's no longer an instant social suicide to be considered a geek, and some people in the nerd community might feel threatened by it. Whether due to a sense of elitism or actual fear of social interaction, your guess is as good as mine.
Also, as a non-native speaker I'd like to point out that I use the terms 'nerd' and 'geek' interchangeably. There's only word roughly translating those in Finnish, so I hear no distinction between the two... though I understand that some consider one of them a pejorative even today?
As for geeks of the female gender... Heck, I know a lot of 'em and welcome them. Though I must admit not having seen much of the "ugly girl geek" stereotype you folks keep mentioning. Most nerd ladies I know are actually quite attractive. Were it not for my medical condition, I would actually be hitting on one of the people in my current game group. She's an enthusiastic beginner in tabletop gaming, an avid amateur actor and studying to become a teacher... and single, if I've understood correctly.
And it seems I'm rambling again...
Maybe this is just a reaction to the fact that being a geek/nerd/connoisseur of [insert fandom here] has pretty much gone mainstream. You have awesome sci-fi shows, you have movies like Lord of the Rings, TV series like The Game of Thrones, huge-ass sales of video games, millions worldwide playing WoW... It's no longer an instant social suicide to be considered a geek, and some people in the nerd community might feel threatened by it. Whether due to a sense of elitism or actual fear of social interaction, your guess is as good as mine.
Also, as a non-native speaker I'd like to point out that I use the terms 'nerd' and 'geek' interchangeably. There's only word roughly translating those in Finnish, so I hear no distinction between the two... though I understand that some consider one of them a pejorative even today?
As for geeks of the female gender... Heck, I know a lot of 'em and welcome them. Though I must admit not having seen much of the "ugly girl geek" stereotype you folks keep mentioning. Most nerd ladies I know are actually quite attractive. Were it not for my medical condition, I would actually be hitting on one of the people in my current game group. She's an enthusiastic beginner in tabletop gaming, an avid amateur actor and studying to become a teacher... and single, if I've understood correctly.
And it seems I'm rambling again...
The elitism is the big thing. The people having trouble with the influx are essentially geek hipsters, or the "I knew about that before everyone else" guy from Shortpacked.
Nerd and Geek are used nearly interchangeably in English. Both used to be pejoratives, with nerd being similar to a dork, and usually someone that was seen as smart and wimpy, and geek often meaning the same thing, or sometimes just to describe someone that was odd or an outcast. Both of these have earlier origins with different meanings, but they aren't really relative to the current use.
Both have also been co-opted by those that were labeled them as badges of honor. Someone who loves academics might happily declare themselves a nerd, and geek can be applied to anyone that is an enthusiast of something. I've often called my dentist a tooth geek, because goddamn does she love everything about dentistry and the history thereof.
BananaHands
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screw you guys she's totally a geek[DOUBLEPOST=1343782010][/DOUBLEPOST]
lol what a geek so embarrassing[DOUBLEPOST=1343782089][/DOUBLEPOST]
omg gross xbox controller and headset? lol might as well be a neckbeard amirite?
are nerds the new jocks?
Cause that's what I learned watching the 21 Jump Street movie
Cause that's what I learned watching the 21 Jump Street movie
Necronic
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Mate. Unless they play Dwarf Fortress, without the tilesets, then they aren't nearly as real as I am.
They're getting the attention these days, so I suppose they're the one everyone is trying to dethrone.
Soon there will be movies about how jocks heroically overthrow their nerd masters and everyone will be totally cool with that.
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I heard a good piece on Adam Corolla's podcast once where he was interviewing that one dude that has the Douchebag website. They were trying to figure out what's worse, the Jersey Shore douchebag or the Hipster Douchebag. He made a good argument for why the hipster is far worse. Basically he said that the Jersey shore guy was nothing new. He was a meathead. But, to be fair to them, they had to work out a lot to get into that kind of shape. But the hipster d-bags, all they have to do is copy other people's fashion, have a veneer thin level of understanding of current politics, maintain a decent level of anorexia, and look as unhealthy as possible and they can pull it off. There's no real skill or effort there.
Dunno where the nerd douchebag falls. Probably somewhere between the hipster and this guy
Dunno where the nerd douchebag falls. Probably somewhere between the hipster and this guy
And then one of the Jocks will rape one of the nerd's girlfriends, and she'll not only be ok with it, but will instantly fall in love with him.
Those movies were fucked up.
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