[ SECRET POST #3146 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3146 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but there's a flaw in your argument there. Of course people would say "Wow lol, you got that seriously wrong." But that doesn't mean they'd say, "I guess that means you never liked any of the things you said you like."

Like, I have legit nerdy (female) friends, who are huge Star Trek nuts and talk hours about the meta, who are scientists and spend their free time making jokey contingency plans with their colleagues in case the zombie apocalypse hits. And they still ask me whether Batman is a Marvel character.

Felicia Day wanted to give a funny answer and picked a seriously unfortunate example, but that doesn't mean she can't be a geek.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm not saying she never liked anything, I'm just saying that it makes me worry that her whole persona as "Geek Queen" might, just might, be nothing more than a marketing ploy to target a specific demographic. Not saying that she can't possibly be a real geek, but that she has an awful lot to gain, that has been gained, by pretending to be a real geek, and that now we know she's willing to pretend to be a bigger fan of something just for appearence sake, people should be allowed to question it.

We say this about literally every celebrity ever, that they don't really think "they had the most fun ever working for [Director X]" or that their fans in Germany are the best most loving fans ever. We acknowledge that everyone else in a position of celebrity panders and lies to get and keep fans. But apparently when this question comes up about a female geek celebrity, we have to accept them at 100% genuine or else we're being mean.

[(Anonymous)]

It's stupid and dumb that you think that. Stop being a dumb. There's a huge amount of space between "entirely sincere" and "entirely invented for mercenary reasons". Stop being a dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

The reason people have a problem with what you're saying is because you're taking a single fuck up and deciding it completely invalidates a person's identity and interests. You're also jumping to the conclusion that she was pretending instead of considering the idea that someone could be sincerely mistaken about something.

You basically come across as trying really damn hard to see this in the worst possible light.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh God SHUT THE FUCK UP. Please stop trying to justify this stupid Fake Geek Girl BS. Geek Queen, Jesus Christ, this is all so fucking stupid. You're the reason people hate geeks, why male geeks are ignored by women, because of misogynistic shit like this. Jesus Christ, paragraphs upon paragraphs of some fucking loser desperately trying to justify his dumbass hatred of a woman who dares to claim she likes XYZ interest.

Not saying that she can't possibly be a real geek, but that she has an awful lot to gain, that has been gained, by pretending to be a real geek,

Just reading this makes me cringe in 2nd hand embarrassment. I'm not saying, I'm just saying gabble gabble gabble real geek fake geek gabble gabble gabble

Just stop. Let people enjoy their interests, let them talk about what they like, let them make mistakes in interviews and stop fucking gatekeeping. Nobody needs to prove anything to you, of all people.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. She she can be a geek and still not know the history of comedy/comedic acts. Now if she said she was a big fan of comedy movies of the 1930s and didn't know The Marx Brothers from the Stooges then I might wonder. But a "geek"? No, she can still be that and not know squat about all sorts of topics the OP considers important to geek cred. People (geeks included) can and often do have a narrow focus of interest. Day obviously doesn't have much interest in vaudeville era comedy. She can still be geek.