perceptions

POSTED BY: boris
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BORIS

Friday, January 29, 2010 1:08 PM

I'm sick of being pidgeonholed. Just because I'm short, wear spectacles and am mousey looking, does not mean I want to be irritated by intellectually deficient oafs while I'm waiting for the bus. I do like the way they look when I give them a stream of counter abuse (in language they understand peppered with more complex language for my own benefit)I particularly like it when the other people waiting for the bus laugh at them after I'm done. that'll teach em to stereotype!
Also I'm tired of people who use the word "geek" as an insult. Geekiness is a gift awarded to only an elite number of us...It should be spoken of with reverence.

PEACEKEEPER

Friday, January 29, 2010 1:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by boris:
I'm sick of being pidgeonholed. Just because I'm short, wear spectacles and am mousey looking, does not mean I want to be irritated by intellectually deficient oafs while I'm waiting for the bus. I do like the way they look when I give them a stream of counter abuse (in language they understand peppered with more complex language for my own benefit)I particularly like it when the other people waiting for the bus laugh at them after I'm done. that'll teach em to stereotype!
Also I'm tired of people who use the word "geek" as an insult. Geekiness is a gift awarded to only an elite number of us...It should be spoken of with reverence.

I wholeheartedly agree. However,the stereotype of "geekdom" is pretty much correct.I have rarely met a geek who doesn't look like that, so the stereotype is pretty much self fulfilling. I myself am over six foot, athletic and able to hold my own with any jock but I am still well and truly a geek. I just don't portray it.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, January 29, 2010 2:28 PM

My coworkers jest about my geekiness/nerdiness almost constantly, especially when it comes to the plethora of useless information I hold in my brain. my supervisor usually addresses it with "Who the fuck let *your* inner nerd out?" but he doesn't mean it maliciously. Sometimes they're actually impressed by it.

The only time anyone ever maliciously made fun of my geekiness was when I was a kid (but they termed it "weird"). Being in school sucked muchly until I came up with a couple of comebacks. They weren't original and sophisticated as I'm sure your 'counter abuses' are, Boris, but they worked to elicit deer-in-the-headlights looks or "whatever"s from the recipients.

I agree that people need to stop thinking of geekiness as something that can be made fun of. The world needs geeks, and nerds, and techno-weenies (if that term is even used anymore, lol).

I would LOVE to be one of those bus people watching you open up on someone (speaking of which, when is that book of comebacks coming out? ). As for the intellectually deficient oafs, Jesus, people, you're adults, act like it. You'd think they would out-grow their own insecurities by the time the reached their 20s or something.

I'm guessing this happened on the way to work? Or were you just thinkin' back on the subject?

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, January 29, 2010 5:11 PM

Well, my answer to that was instead of backing away, to crank it up to full-on mad scientist, emphasis on "mad" - seriously, I threw chairs at people, and used knowledge of human anatomy to explicitly nasty effect on anyone who laid a hand to me, there's plenty of places on the human body where a few pounds of pressure can invoke some pretty impressive screams, believe it - and it's kinda crushing to the macho image of a jockboy when the puny little geek has them on their knees screeching like a little girl with a dislocated little finger while threatening to escalate that into a full on spiral fracture of the radius and ulna.

For the less physically inclined, there's also psychological exploitation and destruction, and that's pretty fun too.

The scariest thing of all though was the junior year before I finally walked off in disgust, when the "geeks" enlisted the thugs and potheads by teaching them to build better bongs in science class and enough computer lit to make psychedelic screen savers, which lead to the "Unholy Alliance", and left the bloody jocks as low men on the social totem pole.

One of my few fond memories of school was the latter part of that year, the Unholy Alliance and the Geek Reign of Terror...

Embrace the Fury!

-F

ZEEK

Friday, January 29, 2010 5:37 PM

So, why exactly do you think jocks are idiots? I knew some very intelligent athletes in my school days. A couple of the best soccer players in my high school were also top of the class in AP Physics. One of them even somewhat picked on me in grade school, but I never let any of that get to me and by high school we joked around with each other and were somewhat friendly.

I find letting that stuff roll off your back for the most part is the way to go. Just give an "are you serious" look or laugh. Seems to work for me. I tended to become friends with the people who initially wanted to pick on me.

PEACEKEEPER

Friday, January 29, 2010 5:47 PM

I'm sure jocks don't want to be pigeonholed either!!!!

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, January 29, 2010 9:04 PM

*blink*

Oh.

Wasn't using the word to perjure athletes, was using it to perjure athletes who happen be ill behaved and obnoxious - kind of the difference between soccer "fans" and soccer "hooligans", there.

Hell, the weightlifting guys wound up on our side and even assisted with some of our more evil pranks.

-F

STARTROOP

Friday, January 29, 2010 9:42 PM

Let's see, I learned to accept my inner geekdom in college when it became clear that we rule the world ;-)

I don't fit the typical mold though because in the 7th grade, I got tired of being spat upon and so started going out for wrestling and then took up Jiu-Jitsu. I found I liked in and became an athlete. I had trouble in high school because the jocks (different from athletes) couldn't figure me out and the debate geeks couldn't understand why I consorted with the enemy. High school sucks any way you slice it so I have parked as much of that baggage as I can.

It took many more years to realize that we limit ourselves by pigeonholing and so I try very hard not to.

BORIS

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:45 AM

I know lots of lovely sports mad keen and some lovely kindhearted science fiction loving Jocks. Weeks ago I was told I'm a cool geek with fashion sense which is apparently different from a nerdy geek with poor social skills.??? Kids at work think I'm cool because I like Halo, Monster Trucks,Fashion and pizza,and I deal with their behaviour "creatively". A couple of the boys said they particularly like the fact that I always have something wicked funny to say even when I am in trouble...I'm not sure exactly what they meant by that, but they are young and observant so there must be something in it.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:51 AM

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Originally posted by startroop:
I got tired of being spat upon and so started going out for wrestling and then took up Jiu-Jitsu.

I had fun telling the bullies to f**k off after taking karate. They have no power once you give 'em THAT look. Heh heh. Oh, and twice I had to back it up, wasn't so bad getting the last strike in.

The laughing Chrisisall

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