Trekkies, trekkers, geeks, nerds...whatever!
So some minor news site/TV site/junior reporter runs an article on Enterprise being cancelled. They refer to fans as geeks, or make some mildly derogatory remark about us all having no lives and still living with our mums. They do this because they really don't care and because Sci-Fi/Trek = geekynerd. Easy. Write two lines about the show (one - how crap it was..afterall, it's been cancelled, so it must have been, two - it is cancelled) then say 'But the geeks are trying to save it.' Badabing, article written.
Everyone on the kind of list that these links get posted to are feeling pretty angry and impotent about the whole cancellation situation, so they all get mildly irate, email whoever wrote the piece, then email the list they got the link from...to show just how angry they were and how good a fan they are.
"I can't believe you say we're all geeks with no lives and live with our mums! Actually I moved out of my mum's on January 28th 1983 at 10am, and since then I've got a life and job and friends and every night I go out Samba dancing and I'm a stuntman in my spare time and a cowboy and every weekend I meet up with all my millions of friends and we go outside and bungee jump and everything and besides we don't like you and never read your stuff ever."
So what does the person who wrote the article do? (Just supposing they even read the email...) They snort and mutter 'geek!' before hitting delete.
Why can't we just inject humour into the response? Why do we take it as an insult? I don't. They can say what they like in their articles. By us geeks posting linkage to aforemention scribblings we've probably doubled the hits to the site. Go them. They same I'm a geek, I say Stufu, mofo. Who cares what either of us think?
I mean, basically, Geekynerds are frequently sciency/computery types, some of those types created the internet, the reports appear on the internet...yep, that reporter's dead right, geeks are sad wastes of space, because their hard work meant that goodfernothing reporter now has a job communicating with others instead of inserting salami into sandwiches on a production line. Not that that isn't a perfectly reasonable job...but most salami inserters would not claim to be reporters. In fact, I might be being cruel. Salami insertion takes two whole thought processes - reach for salami....insert. It's probable that the authors of such shallow articles couldn't actually manage that.
Feel free to comment if you disagree. Or agree. More, or less. Maybe. :)
Everyone on the kind of list that these links get posted to are feeling pretty angry and impotent about the whole cancellation situation, so they all get mildly irate, email whoever wrote the piece, then email the list they got the link from...to show just how angry they were and how good a fan they are.
"I can't believe you say we're all geeks with no lives and live with our mums! Actually I moved out of my mum's on January 28th 1983 at 10am, and since then I've got a life and job and friends and every night I go out Samba dancing and I'm a stuntman in my spare time and a cowboy and every weekend I meet up with all my millions of friends and we go outside and bungee jump and everything and besides we don't like you and never read your stuff ever."
So what does the person who wrote the article do? (Just supposing they even read the email...) They snort and mutter 'geek!' before hitting delete.
Why can't we just inject humour into the response? Why do we take it as an insult? I don't. They can say what they like in their articles. By us geeks posting linkage to aforemention scribblings we've probably doubled the hits to the site. Go them. They same I'm a geek, I say Stufu, mofo. Who cares what either of us think?
I mean, basically, Geekynerds are frequently sciency/computery types, some of those types created the internet, the reports appear on the internet...yep, that reporter's dead right, geeks are sad wastes of space, because their hard work meant that goodfernothing reporter now has a job communicating with others instead of inserting salami into sandwiches on a production line. Not that that isn't a perfectly reasonable job...but most salami inserters would not claim to be reporters. In fact, I might be being cruel. Salami insertion takes two whole thought processes - reach for salami....insert. It's probable that the authors of such shallow articles couldn't actually manage that.
Feel free to comment if you disagree. Or agree. More, or less. Maybe. :)