Oh I've encountered it a few times, mostly on facebook. Usually it stems down to a jockish person's girlfriend plays a video game then says what a nerd she is on facebook. Personally I think it is silly and childish to mad about it.
Poll: Fake Geek Girl Meme
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You mean a group of people who generally are outcasts themselves are suddenly the new trend and see swarms of people imitating their culture and get pissed off about it since very few of those people have had to put up with the same bullshit they did? Can't imagine why they'd be mad and exclusionary to new people...
Seriously though, while they are wrong, I can't blame people from being a little cautious about their subculture now that it is the current fad. They value this stuff and it is a part of how they define themselves, and after having to put up with waves of exploitative marketing to them, overly offended religious assholes decrying them, and a society that has only recently stopped making them out to be secondary characters of life, suddenly you have new people jumping on the bandwagon? Yeah, I kinda expect them to be sort of standoffish about it.
This really isn't much different then how other subcultures behaved when they became the new fad. Goth, Grunge, Rock... all of them sort of closed ranks and called out posers. The main issue here is because most gamers were, til recently, male, and with how tightly gamers and geek culture are tied, it often seems more sexist based. I don't think that is the core of it, and after the fad dies off or the next big thing pops, hostility will die down.
Seriously though, while they are wrong, I can't blame people from being a little cautious about their subculture now that it is the current fad. They value this stuff and it is a part of how they define themselves, and after having to put up with waves of exploitative marketing to them, overly offended religious assholes decrying them, and a society that has only recently stopped making them out to be secondary characters of life, suddenly you have new people jumping on the bandwagon? Yeah, I kinda expect them to be sort of standoffish about it.
This really isn't much different then how other subcultures behaved when they became the new fad. Goth, Grunge, Rock... all of them sort of closed ranks and called out posers. The main issue here is because most gamers were, til recently, male, and with how tightly gamers and geek culture are tied, it often seems more sexist based. I don't think that is the core of it, and after the fad dies off or the next big thing pops, hostility will die down.
Men can be just as bad against one another when it comes to so caleed 'geek cred'. I remember I was at a Comic Society meeting in Uni last semester and I got talking to some guy about V for Vendetta and how I thought the film was under-rated. He then accused me of being some kind of Anonymous fanboy and walked off leaving me a bit perplexed.
It's down to the whole competition thing but you only really get it amongst people who are dicks. Me and my friends don't really pull that, except to take the piss.
It's down to the whole competition thing but you only really get it amongst people who are dicks. Me and my friends don't really pull that, except to take the piss.
I only have one stipulation, liking and playing Call of Doody (or any of those type of games) and only Call of Doo Doo does NOT make you a Geek.
Edit: That goes for both male and female.
Edit: That goes for both male and female.
I'm half joking. I'm serious that something like this really shouldn't be that big of a deal, I'm joking about how people take such things. We're not making fun of "women" we're making fun of a behavior. Of course we don't think ALL geeky girls are like this, but I can say through personal experience, it's really obvious which are and which aren't.Hollyday said:
My 'counter poster' was a joke about "yeah there's guys like this too; but you don't see us complaining."
When I get right down to it, I honestly don't see the big deal; I mean, let's look at this for a second.
Should we go off about how unfair this is because it's making fun of Jahova's witnesses and it's offensive to Christianity as a whole?
Or... Are we going to go "Lol, it's funny because they go door to door and no one likes that".
Same problem, different example. People just need to lighten up and take jokes as jokes. After all, everyone needs to learn to laugh at themselves from time to time.
I hope your right, I can't wait to get back to being alienated for my insane knowledge of comics, as opposed to being revered for it.El Danny said:
Just got done seeing Avengers, everyone is now obsessed with Thanos after seeing him for 1/2 a second and not even knowing who he was. Someone calls him a Super Skrull, I feel obligated to correct them and I proceed to explain everything about Thanos to my curious friends.
People shouldn't be impressed by this!
Why not? Knowledge of other things can impress, and it was relevant to what they were talking about...Shotgun Guy said:
This is what happened with my brother. I don't mind people getting into "geek" culture, it's great. It's when they have read one thing, or seen one movie and then act like they know everything about the subject, it bugs me. My brother for example, has never read a comic in his life (not kidding) and thinks he's now an expert on all things Marvel and Avengers due to this, he even told me to stop making things up when I said to him I was a little disappointed Ant Man and Wasp weren't in the film. "There's no such thing" according to him.
If someone wants to get into something "geeky" then great, meet some people who know about it and get to know it well yourself. Be prepared to listen and learn a lot about the subject matter.
When it comes to people I have just met or do not know, I assume they know what they're talking about etc. But when my friends, or people I know don't, start acting like they do (one of my mates current girlfriends is like this) going on about how "geeky" they are, after say reading one book/comic or watching one film, it bugs me. I can't help it, but it has never been a gender issue with me.
At least the girls are posing as geeks! Be thankful for what you have!
IN MY DAY THE GIRLS WERE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE GUYS WHO KICKED GEEK ASS
WE'D BE ALL LIKE
hey baby, wanna listen to an MP3?
And they'd be all like FUCK YOU I DON'T NEED YOUR MATHS. I LIKE AD-SUPPORTED RADIO AND RECORD STORES THAT NON IRONICALLY ONLY SELL COMPACT DISKS
ALSO VOLTRON SUCKS.
Damn those girls were awful. You whiners don't know how good you got it.
IN MY DAY THE GIRLS WERE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE GUYS WHO KICKED GEEK ASS
WE'D BE ALL LIKE
hey baby, wanna listen to an MP3?
And they'd be all like FUCK YOU I DON'T NEED YOUR MATHS. I LIKE AD-SUPPORTED RADIO AND RECORD STORES THAT NON IRONICALLY ONLY SELL COMPACT DISKS
ALSO VOLTRON SUCKS.
Damn those girls were awful. You whiners don't know how good you got it.
I have a friend like that, it bugs the crap out of me, he got a crash course on comics and thinks he somehow has all the knowledge now, I think whoever taught him everything deliberately mislead him at times just to make him sound stupid, haha.chozo_hybrid said:
I dont care about their gender, its just really annoying when someone proclaims what a fan they are of something, or what an "x" they are, regardless of whether they actually are a fan of whatever it is.
I get it, you're a girl that plays Call of Duty, good for you
I get it, you're a man that watches My Little Pony, good for you, I do too but its not a big deal, so I dont yell about it on Facebook or forums etc.
I get it, you're a girl that plays Call of Duty, good for you
I get it, you're a man that watches My Little Pony, good for you, I do too but its not a big deal, so I dont yell about it on Facebook or forums etc.
No really. not for geek cred anyway. Because its a predominantly male pastime. Men don't play the geek card for attention, they do it for friends. When a man claims to be a nerd, and seeks to hang out with nerds, he is not a threat. When a girl comes in and says "O-M-G, you guys, I am like, SUCH a nerd!" and asks to be showered with attention, it annoys us because no one really likes pretenders in their group (goth/vamp kids can attest to this vehemently), but it ANGERS us because it implies they think that we simpleminded and will praise them because they've "come down to our level" and are thus attainable. When a girl does the fake-geek thing, it's not emulation for acceptance, which would be fine. It's mockery.Hollyday said:
It's also the internet, where everyone is mean to everyone. And people need to get over it.
Of course, in certain BRANCHES of geekdom, there are those that say "i am superior" and anyone who does not do things the same as them is an imposter. But thats not geek culture as a whole. It's douchebags who arent genetically gifted (or industrious enough) to be PHYSICALLY superior.
These people exist in every lifestyle.
really the only thing to do is either start an aggressive campaign of street-sweeping (via murder) or ignore them.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna go laugh at cheap jokes about sluts wearing glasses to get attention and lazy frogs living in filth
Seconded. and while we're at it, anyone who first posts in any thread ever. they are obviously up to no goodTechnocrat said: