Geeks →
I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a victim complex. They’re still largely white and center their race, they’re still largely straight and center their sexuality, they’re still largely cis men who center their gender. They challenge nothing about the status quo and what bodies get to be placed at the center of it, they offer nothing radically different to the typical narratives about which groups of people are and are not important and they can be just as hostile to groups who try to find a place in their space as the mainstream is, in some cases even worse. But for some reason they think the fact that they like Battlestar Galactica instead of Monday night football makes them radical alterna-gods who are too good for this sinful Earth.
There’s that, too.
Yo, not to interrupt the high-fiving but I am not really sure what this generalization is really serving: the all-white, all-male, all-straight ideal of geek culture is so obviously obsolete and outmoded that it’s not even worth doing the research to fight off the easy consensus. I mean, yeah, you can look at the 60-40 male/female split at Comic Con, the same ratio for gamers, the same ratio for people who saw Batman Begins, the proliferation of gay gamer groups, the “white” thing being so specious that you can simply just go to Best Buy or the comic book store or GameStop and just people watch for thirty minutes…. I mean, come on. Where do you want to go with this? How much time do you have? It’s almost like there are jerks of every type in almost any kind of field who can ruin a good thing for others. I worked at a comic book store for five years and regularly dealt with customers of all shapes, genders, colors, sexualities, ages, political affiliations, however you want to break it down. Mad anecdotal and I live in liberal gay ass Chicago, but really, it’s a spectrum. There are rude people everywhere! News at 11.
(I get that the operative word in the original post is “largely” but unless we’re taking that to mean any kind of majority over 50%, it doesn’t seem to be very accurate.)
