Oh my god that is the perfect explanation of the (often unintentionally / incidentally) bigoted opinions I hear around.
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JWBananas@startrek.website 10 months agoLet me see if I can explain it to you: Nerds don’t have a problem with women; they have a problem with change. I’ll give you an example: Nerds are upset at black stormtroopers in the new Star Wars movie. Do they have a problem with stormtroopers being black? No. They have a problem with you changing their definition of a stormtrooper. I’ll be a little clearer: If the first time you introduce oatmeal to a nerd it has maple syrup in it, it better have maple syrup every fucking time, or it’s not oatmeal.
– Larry Wilmore, on the closed-mindedness of sci-fi fans.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I take issue with the idea that being a nerd is the problem. Some people are just assholes, nerdy or not.
JWBananas@startrek.website 10 months ago
I tend to think of the term as meaning “obsessive to a fault” (versus simply being passionate about something).