Tons of hot chicks who love nerds.. so :finger:

What are you talking about.I AM a nerd.And I love nerdy white men.It's my kryptonite.
I was simply pointing out he's only ever slept with his right hand.Has nothing to do with Pokemon.

They are talking about Digimon dear.

Shut up and look sexy.

Not aiming this at you Roxy, but this got me thinking -

I get the impression a lot of the time people say this, what they mean is the now-stereotypical "acceptable" nerd, where it's actually someone with a very slightly greater than average interest in an already hugely acceptable part of pop culture, like comic books or films. Or someone who says "OMG SPACE IS AMAZING" based on the things they've seen a nice colorful photograph of but don't really have any idea about.

Reading the "I ****ing love science" facebook page does not make someone nerdy or show their deep and innate desire for learning. It shows that they enjoy it when someone else takes hugely complex scientific discoveries and nutshells them in no more than 5 approachable sentences.

The number of times I've seen people describe themselves as nerdy or geeky, then COMPLETELY switch off the second someone says more than ten words about a deep topic because they're bored of hearing about it is kind of disheartening. More than that, I actually find it kind of embarrassing to be linked in with these people. The stereotype is based around people with niche interests and deep knowledge, or a desire for knowledge. The popular nerd doesn't have either, but trades on the fact other popular nerds will never actually engage in a conversation that reveals that fact.

I can sit and talk about fountain pens for hours. I can sit and talk about computer science for even longer, etc. I have a wealth of knowledge on diverse topics that I will happily sit there and discuss until I fall asleep trying.

To me, having someone come up and say "Lol I'm so geeky I'm a real nerd lol" then completely shut off the moment I try and discuss anything in depth, is actually kind of insulting.

I mean, look at the web page for I ****ing love science.

It's nothing but "Hey look at this pretty picture!", really. A nice false colour image of something way out in space, a quick tagline about how "Scientists think <something>" or it "Could be doing <something", no discussion about why anyone thinks that, and a fanciful story. All fluff.

Is there a place for that? Hell yes there is. Some of that **** is cool as hell - but it should be a stepping stone to saying "Wow how does this really work?", not a pathetic show and tell of stuff someone else thinks.

Mass media representations of nerds have really come in hard on the acceptable nerd train and it's really cheapening, to me, the actual merit of having a truly deep interest in a topic. Rather than making it acceptable to have that depth of knowledge, and glorifying making it accessible, it's simply encouraging people to advertise their interest without actually takign the next step of putting any time or thought into it.

I stumbled upon my loss of virginity and take no credit for it. Still, I can honestly deny your accusation.

Woman can take any subject and find a way to use it to get attention for themselves.

I remember the 90s when Doctor Who fandom was all Autistic guys and gay men.

Damnit GB,all those ****ing years I've spent with white skinny,computer programming,comic book reading anime watching men have been in vain .I learned absolutely **** all about music,movies,art,linux,bitch x ,ubuntu, and c ++. Wheres the mall?

I'm sorry you say something? We were talking ABOUT ME!

Godamnit.Anything of value ever leave your key board? Like ever?

You were.

I wasn't

Is that a space between sentences? You slipping.

:laughing: I totally missed the gay men bit. Ooops.Hold my purse gotta fix my lipstick.

Ha! Never had gramatical skills to begin with.

The **** are you people talking about.

Urban seems to think I was talking about women, when I'm talking pop-culture geekery - the kind of people who watch big bang theory and think it qualifies them as nerdy. Male or Female doesn't matter at all. The fact is, culturally, putting across the image of nerdy has become desirable, while actually being nerdy has remained socially unacceptable because people have no real interest in talking about in depth topics.

Roxy seems to think I'm talking about her, when I literally stated straight up that it was just that what she said made me consider the topic, and was nothing to do with her at all.


All I'm doing is trying to articulate that pop culture has recently moved to make it desirable and fashionable to project the image of being a nerd, and that it's resulted in a lot of very skin-deep nerd culture becoming hugely popular with the kind of people who'd switch off completely if they were confronted with having to have a real conversation with the kind of people the stereotype claims to represent.

No I was talking about women

You were talking about whatever you were talking about.

Dude I was bustin yer balls,cause you left me a clean shot.You went on a rant about the media or whoever.

Actually, social responses to the prevalent media stereotypes of the 2010s, but close enough.

GB was talking about Sheldon.

I wanna talk about his av. The quintessential "I don't give a ****" statement of the last two years. Cracks me up every time I see it.

GuitarBizarre - Expert at finding complexity in the simple and thus killing light-hearted discussions efficiently and effectively. :laughing:

When you get down to it, anything worth talking about is potentially complex.

"That's a logo on a website" is boring.

"That logo uses this font, created by this person for this purpose in this year, except the typesetter has altered the kerning for greater readability. They've chosen to use a websafe colour pallete for better compatibility with non-true colour displays, showing that the logo was designed according to this set of web standards and is probably quite old now, and it's been saved as a .png file rather than .jpg to take advantage of transparency features that weren't supported in IE 5.5, meaning the designer was making it in accordance with web standards rather than IE specific hacks and workarounds."

Sure, that's dry and boring as ****, and might not be relevant, but honestly? I'd rather read the latter, because it tells me something, or at least gives me a prompt to look at something else I might learn from.

I like leaving my avatar like this. The longer it stays the more I want to keep it forever. :P

ReadyMadeFour64: Bro, you don't have to quote the very first post on a thread to post in an active thread. Do you even know how to forum?

I agree Ki

That's a really, really long time, but yes.

My issue with many female fans of nerdy things isn't attention seeking, or that sexist trope only guys are true fans and girls just poseurs. I just hate that so many fandoms made up of a high percentage of women inevitably devolve into shipping wars.

It's threatening to ruin Arrow: a perfectly awesome show, with writing that far surpasses what the CW is normally capable of, but due to the CW caving to girl fans who demand a certain couple get together, a romantic subplot is starting to dominate screen time and character development at the expense of the actual story. **** Olicity.

I only want to see a good rouges gallery and the main sub plot turn onto vengance. Who cares who loves who.I' ll pick up a supermarket paper back or watch Grey's anatomy when I want to mushy love ****. ( Grey's anatomy is mushy right?)

Mushy like a hot steaming turd.

I'm a cheeseball who loves romantic subplots, but it's a superhero show god damn it. It should be at least 80% costumed superheroing.

You would have loved Underoo's.

Sending you flowers.Oooo and a teddy bear...

ftfy

:laughing:

I had The Wonder Woman kind because the man can't drag me down.

That'll work well for him then. Bonuth.

Or the ahhh no not going there... :shycouch:
What does this mean? You're not talking about the show I assume?
If it is he's gonna have a lot of trouble walking! Bendy skeleton! :)

Shipping - TV Tropes

Ship-to-Ship Combat (Shipping Wars) - TV Tropes

What show?

i tend to naively assume that women who have nerdy interests like anime and the like are smart. then eventually they manage to open their mouths and destroy that fantasy. this has happened to me a few times where i misread a girl who just adopts a few nerdy tropes as being legitimately intelligent. of course i never give guys the same benefit of the doubt. wishful thinking i'm sure. i can't tell you how many time's i've thought i found a cool smart girl only to find out it was a mirage

the funny thing is i don't even care for anime or comic books or any of that crap myself i just assumed that people who get into that **** are bound to be more intelligent based on stereotypes and all that. turns out a good portion of them aren't that intelligent, just socially awkward. oh well, **** happens.

I'm one of those I can't even watch anime type people, so I assume women who don't watch it are smart. The socially awkward comment is spot on. I own Heavy Metal and watch it but thats as far as my cartoon leanings go.