One might think that after spending years stereotyped as socially retarded losers incapable of relating to other people, especially women, in any kind of healthy fashion, there'd be a tendency in geekdom to overcome those tendencies, to rise above the stereotypes and not only take the best revenge by living well and honorably, but to police our own and hold each other to the same high standards.
(Written less floridly, that means treating women as human beings rather than Mean Mean Pussy-Access Preventers. It means finally leaving middle school, emotionally. It means growing the fuck up.)
But no, various memetic defects (http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html) in our makeup apparently mean that it's cool to wear social retardation like a badge of honor, it's cool to point carefully-tended well-aged adolescent frustrations at women because they're easy targets, because it's a socially-approved outlet, and because it provides some kind of cheap limbic-region satisfaction. Examining your own privilege, especially when you're so drunk on your own sense of moral outrage, is such a downer.
The next time someone starts waxing rhapsodic about how morally superior geeks are to mundanes, I'm going to spit blood.
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timeasmymeasure
Well said.
Date: 2008-04-26 04:11 am (UTC)(Written less floridly, that means treating women as human beings rather than Mean Mean Pussy-Access Preventers. It means finally leaving middle school, emotionally. It means growing the fuck up.)
But no, various memetic defects (http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html) in our makeup apparently mean that it's cool to wear social retardation like a badge of honor, it's cool to point carefully-tended well-aged adolescent frustrations at women because they're easy targets, because it's a socially-approved outlet, and because it provides some kind of cheap limbic-region satisfaction. Examining your own privilege, especially when you're so drunk on your own sense of moral outrage, is such a downer.
The next time someone starts waxing rhapsodic about how morally superior geeks are to mundanes, I'm going to spit blood.