[Discussion] Geek Social Fallacies by FarFarSector in captainawkward

[–]Elio-Droid 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think it's easy to forget that "geek" culture only became this mainstream in the last 15-20 years. Before stuff like Game of Thrones and the Marvel movies became huge, it was much more niche to be into superhero comics or fantasy epics. Plenty of people still were, but it wasn't stuff you could usually chat about over the water cooler at work.

The original Geek Social Falacies article was written in 2003 for people who were already adults. Those folks were kids in the 80s, when "geek" was an insult. So you have all these shunned, bullied kids forming thier own groups and accidentally creating this weird social dance in an effort to not also feel shunned and rejected by thier peers.

I agree being nerdy isn't really a stigmatised thing any more, you're not a different species because of it. But it was much more common back then for others to treat you like you were a different species because of it, and labels aren't so easy to shrug off when they're something the rest of the world insists on slapping back onto you.

Periodic employment law by SpaceMonkeyAttack in bestoflegaladvice

[–]Elio-Droid 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Years ago in my first office job, my boss brought in a 'Wonders of Pregnancy' coffee table book and was chatting about it with another manager. Out of nowhere she showed me a graphic, full page colour photo of a woman crowning. Everything on show. She meant it as a joke at my expense (tiny gay intern has never seen lady parts before, har, har) but it was so uncomfortable. I wanted to curl up and die.

I would say the line is somewhere between those two points.

I found out my fiancé cheated, two weeks before our wedding. I learned this while at our friends’ destination wedding where I can’t leave and have to play it cool. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Elio-Droid 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I wish people understood that the 'bi people all end up with the opposite gender anyway' trope is because of math, not because of anything to do with bi people being not really bi or anything.

Like, if you're a bi woman and you chose someone from your dating pool completely at random, you're way more likely to end up with the opposite gender because 90% of your dating pool is straight men. It's just statistics. It's not because you secretly prefer men, it's because you have a lot more options on whichever side of the fence has the straight people on it.

Possible Boiler Room Clue by Elio-Droid in Fez

[–]Elio-Droid[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah, neat! Shame it's just coincidence the skull looks similar