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Speak out with your geek out - WTF?
Sep. 13th, 2011 01:11 pm"Join Speak Out with your Geek Out: Take a stance against baiting nerd rage and stereotypes of geeks."
This is a joke, right? Is there really anybody that believes that in 2011, geeks are an oppressed minority that need defending? Geekery these days is as mainstream as NASCAR, except a lot more (dare I say it?) privileged. Now that the Star Wars franchise has extracted every possible penny from the pocketbooks of the American public, crowd-pleasing summer movies are all about comic book superheroes, and half the shows on television are sci-fi or fantasy. Video and online gaming is a multi-million dollar industry. Everybody's grandma is now online playing Farmville. And the richest man in the world is a classic geek, fr god's sake.
If you want to defend an unappreciated, butt-of-all-jokes minority, how about English majors?
This is a joke, right? Is there really anybody that believes that in 2011, geeks are an oppressed minority that need defending? Geekery these days is as mainstream as NASCAR, except a lot more (dare I say it?) privileged. Now that the Star Wars franchise has extracted every possible penny from the pocketbooks of the American public, crowd-pleasing summer movies are all about comic book superheroes, and half the shows on television are sci-fi or fantasy. Video and online gaming is a multi-million dollar industry. Everybody's grandma is now online playing Farmville. And the richest man in the world is a classic geek, fr god's sake.
If you want to defend an unappreciated, butt-of-all-jokes minority, how about English majors?
