Oh, gawd. I love Bucholtz's gender/identity stuff, but the nerd work? Bleh. She doesn't seem to get it. It's just not as easy as she wants it to be.
What's a geek/nerd/whatever term you want to use? A lot of what you said, though we're not all into science. We do like internal consistency, as you pointed out, but we also love finding the inconsistencies. We like picking things apart and putting things together.
I think that may have a lot to do with why we fit in so poorly in grade school/high school. There's no logic or internal consistency to social cliques. There's no system to popularity contests. Trendy makes no sense. I don't think that's all, by any means, but I think it's a factor.
We are not all white, either. I remember a conversation my junior year in college, talking about how nice it was to have a couple of non-white students joining the gaming/scifi/geek group. And it taking an extensive conversation before someone said "Hey, wait, Kyle's black." He'd been there over a year. Cool guy. Did special effects makeup (Kyle, melt my flesh!), usually played a Ranger, yeah, we knew Kyle. And honestly had never thought about what color his skin was.
I love being a geek. Geeks are good people. We're pretty varied and pretty accepting.
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Date: 2007-12-23 12:05 am (UTC)What's a geek/nerd/whatever term you want to use? A lot of what you said, though we're not all into science. We do like internal consistency, as you pointed out, but we also love finding the inconsistencies. We like picking things apart and putting things together.
I think that may have a lot to do with why we fit in so poorly in grade school/high school. There's no logic or internal consistency to social cliques. There's no system to popularity contests. Trendy makes no sense. I don't think that's all, by any means, but I think it's a factor.
We are not all white, either. I remember a conversation my junior year in college, talking about how nice it was to have a couple of non-white students joining the gaming/scifi/geek group. And it taking an extensive conversation before someone said "Hey, wait, Kyle's black." He'd been there over a year. Cool guy. Did special effects makeup (Kyle, melt my flesh!), usually played a Ranger, yeah, we knew Kyle. And honestly had never thought about what color his skin was.
I love being a geek. Geeks are good people. We're pretty varied and pretty accepting.