Shaun__ said:
Divahkiin said:
I am SO EXCITED. Really, this is the first time I've ever actually gotten this on MFC and I heard other girls talking about it. I was starting to not feel like a special nerdy snowflake anymore!
(In PM)
Member: You're so not a nerd. I'll test you if you allow me to test you.
Divahkiin: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Member: You have to respond immediately or you'll have googled it
Divahkiin: Are you serious? I don't care.
Member: What is Superman's real name?
Member: 3
Member: 2
Member: 1
Member: Oh, I'm so sorry.
Member: You lose.
Member: Do you want to continue?
I actually legitimately loled.
First: It's Kal-El. He was expecting me to say Clark Kent because that's Superman's human alter-ego.
Second: Even if I DIDN'T know, all that would prove is that I don't know much about Superman. So what?
But ohmigod he thinks I'm too pretty/effeminate to be a nerd I FEEL LIKE A SNOWFLAKE AGAIN :dance:
Why do people do that? When I was in school I was called nerd, because the other kids were horrible little monsters who wanted to hurt me. Now people want to turn it into a secret society with no women in it.
Simply put, some of the bullied have become the bullies. There also seems to be a self-loathing aspect to it, that no one attractive could ever be one of them.
It's kinda funny to me, though. The idea that there are guys out there who have spent most of their lives as social outcasts suddenly being presented with an attractive member of the opposite gender saying "hey, I share interests with you, yo! We should hang out and shit." and seeing their brains (which they pride themselves on because nerds) not being able to process the scenario.
I also like how the idea that there is such a thing as a "fake nerd" implies that there is a point that every prospective nerd has to pass in order to be considered a real nerd. Like there's an entry exam (which apparently is only one question about an internationally recognized cultural icon as opposed to something, say, actually obscure) or a shadowy council of "über-nerds" who sit in eternally poorly lit rooms like some kind of reverse illuminati that make the decision on who does and does not get to wear the social label of "nerd" as if it fucking matters.
Also, I'd think that one can be a nerd about many different things, not everyone likes comic books, moreover, not everyone who likes comic books likes Superman. What if Divah had been one of the (admittedly probably few) people who had been able to somehow avoid knowledge about Superman despite 6 mainstream movies, several TV shows, cartoons, lunch boxes, references, Nic Cage naking his son Kal-el, nearly 8 decades worth of comics and tons more of obscure shit that I'm not going to bother to Google? Or *le GASP!* be unable to recall an trivial detail that surely doesn't pop up much in daily life? What then? Would she have fallen under a gypsy curse that made her instantly lose all interest in anything even tangentally nerd-related? Would she have had to go on walkabout in order to finde herself anew? Would a group of men in white coats have burst into the room and taken her to a "nerd re-education camp" where her mind would be conditioned into a database of information that all nerds need to be able to recall at any given time with but a moment's notice?
Actually, hold on. Superman is so ubiquitous that the producers of the 90s animated series didn't even feel the need to include his name in the opening credit sequence. When Superman renounced his American citizenship as part of a story arc in his comic, it made headlines, it was national news. That's how well-known Superman is. And this guy, this fucking guy, thinks it's okay to hinge someone's potential nerdiness on a question about the most recognizable fictional character on the planet? A REAL nerd would have come up with a better question, tbh
Posted for relevance because Div's reaction to the guy reminded me of this: