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Dec 18, 2006 19:46

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somehedgehog December 18 2006, 21:14:26 UTC
I have little to add to this, except: Word. If I see one more "charming, attractive, intelligent, successful young woman must abandon fabulous life and hunky suitor(s) for hopeless hometown dork who will make her Truly Happy (TM) despite all evidence to the contrary, because becoming successful and cosmopolitan is inherently shallow" storyline in film, comics, or anything else, I will fucking explode. And I say this as a hopeless dork who in theory should be sympathetic to said Hopeless Hometown Dork.

Just once, can't the successful, hunky, male New York financial analyst come back to his crappy hometown and ditch the runway-beautiful French concert cellist for the nerdy emo chick with the comic book collection, for the sake of equality?

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parke_matru December 19 2006, 02:34:12 UTC
. . . and take her back to the city so she can get the job she's always wanted while the hunk stays home with the kids if they ever agree to have any? I want a comic that ditches the 'hometown=happiness' idea. I have always wanted to get the fuck away from my hometown, and I want to see more 'Big city with lots of job opportunities and many many bookstores = happiness' stories.

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Hate the hometown! jenfullmoon December 19 2006, 23:54:37 UTC
My mom made me watch Sweet Home Alabama once. I hated it, she adores it. I was all, "Why would she want to move back to the crappy country with the childhood yokel who mostly acts like a jerk when she can have a fabulous career with a guy whose only flaw is his mother?"

I feel sorry for people who are stuck in their hometowns, for chrissake. I dread the high school reunion.

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Re: Hate the hometown! mightydoll December 20 2006, 16:53:57 UTC
never underestimate the mother as flaw...

;)

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Re: Hate the hometown! jenfullmoon December 20 2006, 17:00:20 UTC
Well, I've got MY mother as my big flaw that can drive off men, so perhaps I'm biased.

But I'd still rather put up with snippy Candice Bergen that juvenile Josh Lucas any day :P

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This nerdy emo chick somehedgehog December 19 2006, 17:05:39 UTC
You're right. why can't the hunky guy dump the model for the nerdy emo chick. It happens. I'm the nerdy emo chick with (honestly) a comic book collection and an unusual amount of Star Trek books and RPG games. I married the hunky athlete/engineer.

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Re: This nerdy emo chick jenfullmoon December 19 2006, 23:52:52 UTC
Yeah, I wanna see THAT romance novel.

There's an author who specializes in "nerd as hottie" novels, but guess what, it's the guy nerds. What's the matter with hot girl nerds, anyway?

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Re: This nerdy emo chick prodigal December 20 2006, 05:23:38 UTC
An excellent question, that.

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Re: This nerdy emo chick pixelfish December 27 2006, 05:20:29 UTC
I read the first of that author's nerd novels, Nerd in Shining Armor. I wasn't even impressed with the quality of her nerds, as they were all veneered with nerdhood but it came ripping right off as soon as the plot got going. Not an action figure, RPG, or science fiction book in sight.

Not that this fully qualifies, since she doesn't read comics as far as I know, but Meg Cabot's heroine in The Boy Next Door watches The Weather Channel obsessively and has a Princess Xena action figure and quotes Star Wars (the first three, not the prequels) over emails.

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Re: This nerdy emo chick nuadha_prime December 20 2006, 21:36:45 UTC
As a guy who is constantly smitten with the nerdy emo chicks with comic collections, I'd love to see that movie. Hell, I just want to see more cute geek chicks in movies.

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More geek girls, please. bobcat2022 December 20 2006, 23:11:02 UTC
Amen, brother.

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Re: This nerdy emo chick dqbunny December 25 2006, 10:34:41 UTC
Bah, where are guys like you when I'm looking for dates?

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Re: This nerdy emo chick greatgonzo January 8 2007, 18:40:06 UTC
About 1900 miles due East. Was going to IM you (I mean, your interests are alphabetized!) until I saw your HP ships. It would never work out. *sigh*

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Re: This nerdy emo chick dqbunny January 8 2007, 18:43:14 UTC
Don't worry, HP isn't my major fandom. *points to icon* Slayers is. :) All of my other ships I'm pretty flexible on. There's some fantastic Ron/Luna and Harry/Luna stories out there, for instance, and one Hermione/Oliver that was really good too. :)

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Trackback somehedgehog July 6 2007, 21:23:47 UTC
Great essay - Now IT's HAPPENED! Erk!

http://castironbalcony.media2.org/?p=375

and

http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=715

Helen

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