minicrisis

Mar 24, 2010 21:32

Shit--I don't really identify with any of these "top 10 habits of a geeky spouse." (via daharynI mean I don't think I would date anyone who thought learning Elvish* or Klingon was worth their while (much less that speaking it could be romantic in almost any context). It's clear that the person who chooses between cans and bottles of cola by price per unit ( Read more... )

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q10 March 25 2010, 03:27:52 UTC
i think our society would be better and more fair if geeky sports fandom were recognized as part of the same phenomenon as other geeky fandoms, and wearing copies of your favorite athletic team's uniforms and wearing copies of the uniforms from your favorite sci-fi television show were treated as equivalent activities, and likewise for sports statistics and monster manual entries.

that said, these things aren't equivalent in the society as it stands, and there's a (artificial, arbitrary, and grossly unfair, but nonetheless real) social category of ‘geek’ that makes this distinction, so it's fair to reference it in discussing geeks ( ... )

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think_too_much March 25 2010, 05:26:04 UTC
Part and parcel of the typical "geek" stereotype involves being unathletic, which is the main reason why sports geekery tends not to count. Also, sports are on network television, which is by definition mainstream. Also also, sports are associated with alcohol consumption.

Though I'm pretty sure that people who play Strat-O-Matic would definitely be accepted as geeks.

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q10 March 25 2010, 06:39:30 UTC
Part and parcel of the typical "geek" stereotype involves being unathletic, which is the main reason why sports geekery tends not to count.

i wasn't aware that people who enjoyed watching and talking about sports were universally in any shape to play them.

Also, sports are on network television, which is by definition mainstream.

so was Star Trek.

Also also, sports are associated with alcohol consumption.

so is Filk. (see the ‘Tullamore Dew’ entry here.)

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ece_drihten March 26 2010, 11:44:45 UTC
I tried to argue with one of my coworkers who was really excited about the Superbowl and now the NCAA championships that he was as big a geek for sports as I am for comics and stuff, and he looked at me like, "But sci-fi is for nerds. Sports are for guys." Sports geekery has an entire system of gender stereotyping and social normativity behind it, and other geekery is outside of that system, so, not "normal."

Right...?

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