Actually, I had a whole section about female bullying, but I decided to cut out because my post was already too long. Since we are talking about the males in a male dominated group discriminating against women it seemed less important to establish the universally accepted fact that nerd culture has, for a very long time, been mostly male.Rainboq said:Interesting, but there's a couple fatal flaws in your thesis. One: You assume that girls didn't do the same as guys, belittling their nerdier and geekier peers. This is not the case, it does happen, just in a less physical sense than how guys go about it.DrOswald said:-snip-
It is a fact that there were 3 girls in my group to more than 15 guys. The chess club was almost all male, the Lord of the Rings club had some 20 guys and 4 girls. I remember each of them specifically, though ten years after the fact I can only tell you 3 of their names. There were no girls in our Warhammer circle. They never joined in our after school halo parties (which were open to anyone who would care to come.) If there were many more geek girls around that I realized it was because they were doing their best to hide it.Two: On the topic of girls dating down the social ladder. Ones biology tends to lead to a predisposition to date up the social ladder, so its highly likely that you didn't even notice female nerds and geeks because they weren't on your radar growing up.
A social outcast is not always a geek, and a geek is not always a social outcast.