Firefly fans have lives, okay!!!!
POSTED BY: Wolfpoet
UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2006 22:52
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I think originally the stereotype held true to a degree. Stereotypes are sometimes good, but as we know they are usually offensive to the members of the particular group that do not share the defamatory trait. These people were just unfortunate enough to share the other, more prominant trait, which would unfairly bunch them in with the others. However much we don't want to admit it, stereotypes generally are proven time and time again by a majority of the very group which they represent. To completely deny this fact would require putting on blinders to the truth all in the name of "world peace" or "equality". (Blinders that I hear the Alliance is enforcing as a requirement for kids pre-enrollment for next schoolyear). For example, just so you don't think I'm being some sort of Fasist I will say that I am white and under most circumstances, I cannot dance. I say most, because I have never had formal training and more importantly, I can never really loosen up enough to look like I'm enjoying myself much. I have been known, on occasion, to drink enough liquor on days such as my birthday or New Years that I was tearing up the dance floor because I just didn't give a care anymore and I acted a fool. I was dancing with a little Seniorita one New Years eve who told me that I dance pretty good for a "white boy". This just prooves the point that many racial stereotypes have nothing to do with the color of your skin and a whole lot to do with your enviornment growing up. If I had ballroom dancer parents, I may have been dancing with Stacy Keibler on that TV show a few months ago.
I don't think that sci-fi fans of today or yesterday are lesser people. I think it makes them more interesting, the fact that they can immerse themselves in a world that is so different from this mundane world we live in and relate on levels with "normal" people cannot relate to, and usually in a very extravagant way. I kind of envy somebody who can dress a part and walk out in public. I've never been one to do that. I talk alot on boards and with people I'm comfortable with, but I am shy to a fault if you met me. I've never taken ridecule very well and even though I've matured into a pretty attractive guy (or so I've been told on occasion), in my mind I still act the part of the little guy who got picked on in school a lot and who likes to kind of just blend in and not get called on by the teacher anymore. I like to stay at home a lot and play my guitar on the patio, hoping one day that I'm good enough so I can write some of my own songs that really mean something... even if nobody but me gets to hear them.
If you can do it, more power to you. If you want to cross dress and go dance the Time Warp with the other so-called freaks, I hope you have fun. I'll be at home playing my guitar and gazing at the stars... imagining what it would be like to be out there in the 'verse.
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Originally posted by Wolfpoet:
It really annoys me that some people think all sci-fi fans are unmarried, nerdy, 40 year-old men who live in their parents' basements. That's so stereotypical!!! Grrr... just because we're devoted to something, unlike some people, doesn't mean we don't have lives.
Hey, I'm a unmarried, nerdy, almost 40 year-old WOMAN who lives in her parents' apartment (since they moved away). Would like to meet some of these stereotypes. Let's make a basement party! :o)
Stereotipes are fun, if you use them, so don't be offended, when others use them too. In Germany we say, you don't need to wear these shoes, if you don't think, they fit!
Esther
They can't take the sky from me!
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As a teenage male sci fi fan, I've run into about every stereotype um... ok, a lot. And damnit I hate them. They just give a false impression, and that's sad.
On the subject of the FF obsessed guy at the screening... My guess is he was a)so hyped about being there with other 'coats, he may not have been sorta mentally prepared to deal with the uninitiated. b)Seriously, how many of us have the ability to talk about SereniFly till we make other folk's ears bleed? I certainly do, and I'd wager most of you folk could too. Does that make you bad folk? No, it means you're interested in something and want to share it with others. Go figure.
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon
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We have lives?! Well, that's the first I've heard about it. lol
As for stereotypical sci fi fans, I'm even close to the description. That works well I guess.
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Well, I can't say I hold to the 40-year-old male part (not last time I checked anyhow 
), I will say that the rest is true, especially the "having no life" part. But that's okay. I can still hang with my fellow Browncoats. 
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Originally posted by Wolfpoet:
It really annoys me that some people think all sci-fi fans are unmarried, nerdy, 40 year-old men who live in their parents' basements. That's so stereotypical!!! Grrr... just because we're devoted to something, unlike some people, doesn't mean we don't have lives.
I'm an unmarried, nerdy, 20 year-old man who lives in his parents house. And I’m working 2 jobs, that's 60 hours a week minimum.
Thus, no life.
So ahhh... actually, it sums me up pretty well.
... Damn...
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... also... nobody I know has a basement!! 
hmmmmm... Magda x x
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So being 40 and living in your parents basement is a bad thing?
Cause I would love to!
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Well, I'm saying some people think we ALL are like that. Some of us are, some of us aren't. Personally, I have no life, and I'm proud of it
But I'm a girl and I'm definitely under 40.
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"I think we should call it YOUR GRAVE!"
"Oh, no, sudden yet inevitable betrayal."
-Wash
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Yep, I'm a girl, and I'm 21, I love my computer and I... live in my parents'..... *trails off*
Well, damn.
Hey, at least I didn't end up moving in with that one guy like I was planning to. Prefer living here in a nice house than wherever else I might be.
Especially since he has trouble holding a job. And plays too many video games.
Oh, wait. I do that too. Not the same kinds or quite as often but...
Well, damn.
But I can hold a job!
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