[ SECRET POST #3146 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3146 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's waaaaaaay before her time and I wouldn't expect her to know, but I still kind of LOLed...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm younger than her and I still know that Groucho Marx was never a Stooge.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay? *throws a handful of confetti in the air just for you*

[(Anonymous)]

Point is they're fairly well-known even today.

[(Anonymous)]

By some people, yes. But there are still well known or popular things that not everyone is aware of, so...?

[(Anonymous)]

Then don't pretend you do for geek cred?

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking you know something and turning out not to isn't the same as pretending. Also, what geek cred? Since when does anyone get geek cred for knowing about the Stooges?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm younger than her, probably a bigger geek than her, and I don't know anything about Groucho Marx or the Stooges. Like, absolutely nothing, besides I've passively heard the names before.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Though I'd also imagine you wouldn't bring them up in a conversation as if you knew all about them.

[(Anonymous)]

Did she make anything more besides this ONE comment to a dumb interview question? I mean, we all say stupid shit. Sometimes we remember things incorrectly, hell, sometimes we do pretend we know a little more than we do, who cares? It's one thing to laugh at Felicia Day's mistake, fair enough. But to question her geek cred over it? Lame.

[(Anonymous)]

This is true, but the thing that makes her a fake geek girl is the pretending to know to seem super hip and like she's a nerd about something "Most other girls don't like". Pretending she was always such a fan but wanted more women representation, when in fact she clearly knows nothing casts her stated love for everything else geeky and oddball and out-there (as far as mainstream media girls go) into serious question.

Does she really like MtG or does she know there's not enough pretty girls being openly geeky about it so she figures if she pretends to be into it her brand will become super big because of brainless fanboys who want to pretend she's anywhere near their level.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're reading a lot into the statement, hombre

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. There's nothing wrong with not knowing something about old comedy acts, but if you pretend you do know something. if you pretend to be such a big fan of this thing but don't even know the difference between two well know acts, then there are only a finite number of reasons why you would say you were a fan in the first place. And given her career is built upon the "I'm so goofy and nerdy, but also I'm sort of pretty, why don't you admire and worship me for taking an interest in your pissy little hobbies" character she's putting out there, then "Doing it for the attention and to seem more interesting that she really is" is top of the list.

Like if you asked me "Which famous person would you most like to have dinner with, and I said "Socrates, I love his "I think therefore I am" stuff" you could rightly conclude I'm a pretentious asshole who just want's to be thought of as deeper and more cultured than I am. Same with this, only replace depth and culture with nerdy and geek culture.

[(Anonymous)]

She made a mistake. She's human. It happens. The fact that she's pretty doesn't mean she's less allowed to make mistakes.

Also, re: reading too much into things, I'd like to just point at "I'm so goofy and nerdy, but also I'm sort of pretty, why don't you admire and worship me for taking an interest in your pissy little hobbies". Just point at that whole thing and let it stand there. Because boy is that reading too much into things.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I was gonna comment on the same thing, because really.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Not only is anon overthinking the situation, their comment also has this weird projected self-involvement. Like, Felicia Day isn't asking anything of you, anon, she's just doing her thing the best she can, same as all of us. The fact that you read your awareness of her as her somehow mooching for positive attention is frankly pretty off-putting.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, she's a lot more than "sort of" pretty.

[(Anonymous)]

no. she's really not.

[(Anonymous)]

Two things: she doesn't ask people to admire or worship her. That's you reading things into her career that aren't there.

Also, her fucking up doesn't mean she was "pretending." Sometimes, people like a thing but are mistaken on something about it. This is pretty common with actor's names, tbh.

Oh I guess I have a third thing. What's geeky about the Stooges? Seriously, I don't get this.

[(Anonymous)]

if you don't think Iggy Pop is fantastic, you're clearly not a true nerd

[(Anonymous)]

And given her career is built upon the "I'm so goofy and nerdy, but also I'm sort of pretty, why don't you admire and worship me for taking an interest in your pissy little hobbies" character she's putting out there, then "Doing it for the attention and to seem more interesting that she really is" is top of the list.

What even. When has Felicia Day ever played up her looks to get attention? When has she ever demanded people admire and worship her for being a girl geek? She IS a geek, she was a geek LONG before she ever became famous. This is just sexist on so many levels.

Like okay, pretending to know something you don't, fair criticism. Though there's a fuckload of difference in pretending to know Socrates and making a mistake about dumb old comedy acts in one single offhand comment and joke. Your issue with her is clearly that she is a woman.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehm. I don't see why knowing about Groucho Marx or the Three Stooges would add/remove from geek cred. I'm a geeky person, and I would consider knowing about them more like pop culture knowledge. I'm TERRIBLE at pop culture references -- I could see myself mixing up random comedians or actors or songwriters like she did, and I'm definitely a geek (non-pretty and non-famous). I don't see why she should be any different.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Been thinking about it, and actually my awfulness at knowing pop culture actually contributed to my geek feelings (and so if anything is positively related to geek cred). As late as college, I could tell you the Japanese and American names of the Sailor Senshi, name several JRPG composers, or give you a detailed analysis of the themes of ASOIAF, but if you asked me to name just one song Michael Jackson did, I honestly could not say.

[(Anonymous)]

JFC calm down. Where do you get all these secret coded messages? If someone answered the "famous person dinner" question incorrectly, I would assume they'd made a mistake...unless I already had a ongoing grudge against that person, in which case I would use that one mistake to add credibility to my extant pointless hatred. One mistake doesn't prove anything. JFC.

[(Anonymous)]

In what strange, alternate universe does knowledge of the Stooges or the Marx Brothers make anyone seem super-hip?

If you're questioning her geek cred over this, you were looking for an excuse already.