Imp Emissary said:
For example, do you know of Stephen Colbert?
I
love that guy!
He has a whole show where he put on an act of satire based off people who are very "right" politically. I don't really see how a regular viewer could not tell that he isn't serious, but someone in the Bush administration, in 2006 I think, though his persona was real, and they had him come over to speak at one of their conventions.

It was a very funny affair.
Tell me about it, facepalms galore and all that >.>
As for Jim's video, while he does make it obvious that he's making fun of the people who complain about fake geeks(specifically female ones), I'm a bit sad to say the people I've seen actually complain about fake geeks aren't as far off from what Jim is acting like as I'd hope.
It may indeed be a strawman, but straw may be a bit too heavy to compare the weight of the argument to.
There is just a very odd, paranoid, and toxic element to the whole group of people who talk about how bad fake geeks are. Even when they have a specific case where what they say about a girl(or I assume at least at one time, a guy) who is "faking" being a geek, I can't really take the whole thing very seriously. I mean, worse case scenario, someone is trying to get attention. And that's bad because...reasons.
Should I not hear from you, may your time be good.
My main problem is that I simply haven't seen anything like what he talks int he video actually happen. Giving the benefit of doubt, this is either a geographical thing and much more prevalent elsewhere, or he's just plain fucking wrong. Still, I'm totally willing to believe it's a geographical thing.
Maybe because Slovenia, or the Balkans specifically still lives in the past.
You're still an outcast if you're a gamer around here. No matter what your gender is. No matter what your job is. I mean what the fuck is wrong with you, you should be out there either making mad money or fucking everything that moves (or making mad money so you can throw it around so that everything that moves will want to fuck you). That's still the mentality here.