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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-09 03:29 pm

[ SECRET POST #3048 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3048 ⌋

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Re: Ever have an identity that you've since changed or "matured" out of?

(Anonymous) 2015-05-09 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
In some sense, being a geek.

I mean, I'm still a huge nerd, and I don't think that'll ever change. But in the sense of being a geek as an important thing, and of geekdom or nerddom as a community that you can belong to and be a part of, that's something that I absolutely don't have any credence for anymore.
lb_lee: A happy little brain with a bandage on it, enclosed within a circle with the words LB Lee. (Default)

Re: Ever have an identity that you've since changed or "matured" out of?

[personal profile] lb_lee 2015-05-09 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I hear that and feel the same way.

It also helped that I knew some REALLY unpleasant geeks who were even worse than the football jocks who bullied us as kids.

--Rogan

DA

(Anonymous) 2015-05-10 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
I feel the same way.

Maybe there's a lot more "fake geek girl" backlash against women in fandom now, maybe it was always there and I was just better at ignoring it because it was the only place I didn't feel like a complete outcast.

I'm still in fandom, but it's not my whole identity like it was when I was younger.
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Re: DA

[personal profile] lb_lee 2015-05-10 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we never experienced fake geek girl shit until like, this past year or two. I suspect it might be a more recent phenomenon, because there's enough geek girls to go around that the geek guys can AFFORD to be smug. What WE experienced was this idea that since they were a geek guy and we were (they thought) a geek girl, we were somehow contractually obligated to date/fuck them.

Like, we were treated badly in many creepy ways, but our geek cred at least was never questioned.

--Rogan