I thought it was very funny. 'tips for gaining brownie points with me' LOL! She has a nice sense of humor though, I'll give her that.ksoileau said:
It is sad. I liked it so much better when the term geek was an insult and strictly a negative label. Now, sadly, geekiness has become like a trendy fashion statement. This UG is a poseur. As a matter of fact, just about all girl-geeks, geekettes, or whatever they want to call themselves are self styled, not negatively labelled. Even the nice ones (and I know a couple) but they are certainly poseurs if they shamelessly promote themselves online like this. This chick is just one of many (like this one) who jumped on the fraudulent "geek is chic!" bandwagon once they found out they can get attention from lonely AFC sycophants, many of whom don't qualify as true geeks themselves. If they did qualify, they'd be too busy cracking code, doing science experiments, or true geeky stuff and wouldn't give these idiot girls the time of day.ksoileau said:
I agree somewhat with what you're saying. I'm annoyed with the "geek is chic" movement, but I don't want to go back to the days of negative labels. Labels like that, which demean a certain type of person just for what they are and what they are interested in doing doesn't help anyone. Maybe I'm an AFC, but as long as a so called "geek" isn't hurting me in anyway, I could care less. Let the geeks romp in their silicone fields.Yotsuya-san said:
Though you are right, negative labels should be avoided. However, back in the day when the terms geek and nerd were thus, there was no danger of trendy poseurs intruding and bastardizing anything just so they can be part of the scene. In truth, we (that is ME and others like me) never styled ourselves geeks. We simply knew that, smart as we were, we just didn't fit in with normal folks (yuppies, townies, ect). Back then, as you may recall, there really was no "geek subculture". There were, however, various subcultures that catered to the interests of people that happen to fit the geek profile (Star Trek and other Sci-Fi for example), interests that you could count on being made fun of. It's not so much about preferring labels, it's just that the ones who are stealing this label (and the image to go with it) for themselves don't know or care about the history behind the terms.snbatman said:
