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Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds
PvtVoid writes: "Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu pens a heartfelt takedown of misogyny in nerd culture: 'I’ve heard and seen the stories that those of you who followed the #YesAllWomen hashtag on Twitter have seen—women getting groped at cons, women getting vicious insults flung at them online, women getting stalked by creeps in college and told they should be "flattered." I’ve heard Elliot Rodger’s voice before. I was expecting his manifesto to be incomprehensible madness—hoping for it to be—but it wasn’t. It’s a standard frustrated angry geeky guy manifesto, except for the part about mass murder. I've heard it from acquaintances, I've heard it from friends. I've heard it come out of my own mouth, in moments of anger and weakness.
What the f*$# is wrong with us? How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it? ... To paraphrase the great John Oliver, listen up, fellow self-pitying nerd boys — we are not the victims here. We are not the underdogs. We are not the ones who have our ownership over our bodies and our emotions stepped on constantly by other people's entitlement. We're not the ones where one out of six of us will have someone violently attempt to take control of our bodies in our lifetimes.'"
What the f*$# is wrong with us? How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it? ... To paraphrase the great John Oliver, listen up, fellow self-pitying nerd boys — we are not the victims here. We are not the underdogs. We are not the ones who have our ownership over our bodies and our emotions stepped on constantly by other people's entitlement. We're not the ones where one out of six of us will have someone violently attempt to take control of our bodies in our lifetimes.'"
Good to see the PC police out in full force. Wonder why these folks don't focus their energies on the dozens shot in inner cities around the country EVERY NIGHT rather than trying to score political points by pointing out "Look! an angry white guy did it!" every time a mass shooting happens (and by that, I mean the statistically insignificant one or two times a year it happens)? It's an election year, bitches.
Some variation of this comes up now and then, this has been a topic and argument within geekdom for, well, as long as I can remember at least. Sadly I rarely see people actually starting to see from another perspective and instead just circling the wagons to defend about their misogyny.
I agree that the abuse on the word "rape" does more harm than good. It's a strong word and it should only be used when appropriate. Other situations, like molesting for example, which are also wrong should be called by their own names. Putting everything under the same term dilutes the term and makes it less useful.
HOWEVER, if you have a look at the general Western culture, but *particularly the US*, there is a very well spread concept of the rape victim being actually at fault, due to wearing provocative clothes, due to walking at night through a park, due to going to a party, or whatever other reasons people use to justify something that can never be right.
This same thing of putting the victim in the "at fault" extends to other forms of abuse. Catcalling, for example, is a very spread form of abusing women. It's not rape. It is not as bad as rape, nor is it as bad as molesting. However, it's really annoying and it shouldn't be tolerated. It's not a question of some women not wanting to ever be offended. For particularly attractive women, this is something that happens practically every day, with very disgusting language and in a way that really makes them feel unsafe. Most people will just dismiss this saying that "women like it". And this is wrong. Of course, every human being likes to hear nice things every once in a while, so, stuff like an innocent "You are beautiful" is fine for most women. But the usual catcall goes more along the lines of "I'd fuck you right here", "I want to make kids out of you", or similar disgusting stuff that NO, women DON'T like to hear.
Rape culture?
Here's what rape culture is: women are many times more likely to get raped by someone they know, but they want to blame ALL MEN. That's your fucking "rape culture".
Nerds are the bad guys now? LOL! Give me a break.
Yes, there is much misogyny in nerd culture, and I am proud of it. Women have in the past, and CONTINUE to reject *authentic* nerds, and we are RIGHTLY angry about this.
I point out nerd authenticity, as there seems to be some confusion as to whether or not nerds are sexy now. They are not. What you think is nerd sexyness is hipster faggotry. Leonard on TBBT doesn't dress nerd, he dresses hipster.
Nerd culture is male, and to pretend geek girls actually exist is silly. Sure, you see chicks at conventions; Damaged girls looking for attention and/or whores trying to get their hands into your geeky wallet.
*REAL* geek girls only exist if you modify the meaning of the word. Is someone obsessed with Korean soap operas a geek? Is a polyglot a geek? Is someone obsessed with knitting a geek? No, no, and GOD NO.
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"Stop raping" on the other hand is just wrong. I have never raped anyone and "
Not everything is about you. As a man, you should not be offended when those who do rape get called on it, just because they are also men.
"... have no intention to ever rape anyone."
I'm not saying you will, but it's possible you may surprise yourself one day.
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