mandaforever said:
Abandon4093 said:
Is he living in the 80's or something?
There is no Nerd culture anyomore. Geek and Nerd have just become some sort of faux fashion trend. I really don't think anyone on here will really identify themselves as either of those things in a non-ironic manner.
You don't have to be a bully victim to be able to express yourself in an eloquent manner, nor enjoy games, or comics, or movies, or computers.
The age of ostracising the smart guys are lonnnng gone. It must have sucked growing up in an time when being smart was tantamount to having some sort of condition, but you've got to let that go. It's not the case anymore.
And if you take meme's seriously, you're doing it wrong.
Same goes for all internet culture. It's a culture built on sarcasm and irony.
Also, leave Batman alone.
I agree with you to a point, but I can definitely call myself a nerd and although I have not been bullied consistently, I have been purposefully ostracized by a lot of my peers simply because my interests and way of life was so different from theirs. Maybe it's a big difference between girls and guys, but at least with girls, this is still happening, perhaps in a different way that you are thinking, but being a "nerdy girl" and indulging in my own interests has alienated me from most other women (not that it matters, I usually HATE other women). I have been bullied and made fun of by "sorority girl" types many, many times (not that I really care, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen). Maybe I'm the only one?
I really can't relate. Maybe there is just a massive difference between American and English youth culture.
But I always read comic and collected Warhammer and the like when I was in school. I didn't particularly game or anything but I was that guy that collected weapons and knew a little too much about the kind of science that wasn't on the tests and could quote just a few too many classic poets and politicians in English class etc.
Yet along with the friends I had who shared the same interests, we had just about every other clique in our group of friends. And I still regularly meet up with most of them to go into town or occasionally go on holiday (30 of us went to Magaluf once, lol).
There just isn't that social divide. People just seem to be friends with whoever they want. It's generally got little to do with how we dressed or behaved, or even our interests.
I don't really see why America should be any different.