tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658647965084977626.post8899182379090968570..comments2022-10-31T07:35:23.110+00:00Comments on New Fairbank News: When does pride become militant?Dr Loxleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02518191988468509866noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658647965084977626.post-24208838062183818502013-04-04T14:50:32.430+01:002013-04-04T14:50:32.430+01:00Thanks for the comments.
I think one of the issue...Thanks for the comments.<br /><br />I think one of the issues (as I realised last night) is that a lot of people have a lot of different definitions of what being a 'Geek' is.<br /><br />Personally I see it as someone who engages in certain hobbies, namely video games, toy soldiers, CCGs and also likes films and books around Sci-Fi and Fantasy.<br /><br />But that is just my own definition, but I bet everyone will have their own.<br /><br />What is interesting is that I believe that EVERY subculture a person belongs to should be protected and they should be allowed to show off their love and celebration of that culture.<br /><br />I think certain cultures are already allowed to do that more so than others, football for example.<br /><br />But what is very interesting is what I read in the news this morning.<br /><br />I'll probably be blogging on this in the next day or two, but as of now any crime committed against a member of a subgroup because they belong to that subgroup (the classic jock beating up the nerd paradigm springs to mind) is now to be treated as a hate crime.<br /><br />Like I said I'll have more to say about this in time.<br /><br />And in regards to my desire for Geek Pride? Well that's kinda the point behind my post. Maybe I'm going to far in asking for Nerd Marches, or maybe I'm not going far enough. At what line am I no longer showing pride for my love, and instead shoving it down people's throats in a militant manner?Dr Loxleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02518191988468509866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658647965084977626.post-81120823638798888512013-04-03T22:52:06.536+01:002013-04-03T22:52:06.536+01:00If you have a search of t'internet there is a ...If you have a search of t'internet there is a blog post of a very similar vein written about the show 'big bang theory' basically it was pointing out that the whole premise of the show was not to celebrate geeks but actually to laugh at their expense. <br /><br />Personally I think the idea of geek pride doesn't really work as you're casting a very wide net as to what exactly is geeky. I play toy soldiers, everyone I know at all well more than likely knows that, if they don't its because they're not interested, just as I don't share some of their hobbies so we don't talk about them. But I'm also a hill walking geek- I've ticked off munros, I'm a diving geek- I loves me some scuba, I'm a cycling geek - I wear Lycra. <br /><br />These can be considered cool, some even mainstream, but for certain people geeky. We're I to say football supporters were geeks would you agree? All the classic signs are there, spend vast amounts of time and money on watching 22 people kick a ball around and have nothing really to show for it but still spend endless hours talking about it. So geeky to me is just lazy terminology a meaningless term to describe someone who is into a hobby but not actually bother to recognise what that hobby is. <br /><br />I'm not a geek, I play toy soldiers. And that's what I tell people when they ask. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02082733549167473245noreply@blogger.com