look OP...you post regularly in comic book forums, displaying your encyclopedia of knowledge concerning cartoon fiction. you also regularly utilize that expansive and practically useless knowledge to engage in versus debates, where one individual or group of imaginary cartoon characters is pitted against another. how is that not incredibly nerdy? 🙂
Originally posted by Bashar TegI am a white hat nerd 🙂 btw: Superman vs Hulk is serious business, at least the first 30 times. 😖hifty:
look OP...you post regularly in comic book forums, displaying your encyclopedia of knowledge concerning cartoon fiction. you also regularly utilize that expansive and practically useless knowledge to engage in versus debates, where one individual or group of imaginary cartoon characters is pitted against another. how is that not incredibly nerdy? 🙂
Originally posted by Bashar Tegpoint made.
look OP...you post regularly in comic book forums, displaying your encyclopedia of knowledge concerning cartoon fiction. you also regularly utilize that expansive and practically useless knowledge to engage in versus debates, where one individual or group of imaginary cartoon characters is pitted against another. how is that not incredibly nerdy? 🙂
GamerGate proved without a doubt that there is a racist, misoygnistic sect within the 'nerd' community yes. And I'm sure anyone who has been on this forum long enough would have encountered it first hand once or twice.
I think a lot of it comes from the fact nerd culture welcomes the marginalised, and therefore more fringe 'redpill' viewpoints are tolerated within certain circles in a way that I assume makes nerds feel superior to quote unquote 'normies'.
But ironically this means that women, minorities and LGBTQ+ people are also considerably overrepresented within 'nerd' communities as well. And when those groups begin to exert influence and become visible within nerd culture you get vitriolic backlash like GamerGate.
Doctor Who is also great example of this. It's hugely popular among queer people and women, but when that gets reflected in the source material, a sect of predominately straight, male nerds become enraged by it (interesting, the Star Trek fandom was also originally dominated and shaped by female fans.) Making it a constant staging ground for culture wars.