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[ SECRET POST #3923 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3923 ⌋

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[Close Your Eyes]

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[Brooklyn 99]

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[Daredevil, Vanessa Marianna/Wilson Fisk]

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[Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman]

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[A Wrinkle In Time, the forthcoming film]

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[FullMetal Alchemist]

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[A Wrinkle In Time, the forthcoming film]

Well, you know... tv/movie nerds rarely look like real nerds. They're generally going to be better dressed and better looking, because Hollywood. Though to be fair in the books Meg's nerdiness has more to do with her personality, her unusual interests and her family than her looks, doesn't it?

dude no, Meg is explicitly described as looking like a gawky 14 year old mess. She's got thick 60s glasses and braces and horrible unmanageable hair and is described as being very plain. Even Charles Wallace agrees with her about the plainness when she complains about it, although he does so only to point out that their mom probably looked awful in high school and she's beautiful now so Meg has plenty of hope to get pretty in the future. Her personality absolutely has a huge amount to do with her being a social reject---she's a 14 year old STEM nerd with no social graces, who isn't all that feminine, in the 1960s---but the book makes it clear that she ain't all that attractive except for having pretty eyes (which her glasses hide.)

I didn't say Meg wasn't plain or that her looks had nothing to do with her social status at school, though?

>Meg's nerdiness has more to do with her personality, her unusual interests and her family than her looks

is what you said, and speaking from personal experience it's a package deal when you have the combo. But the point is that she is specifically described as looking like your classic messy 9th grade nerd girl with no sense of style and various unfortunate things affecting how her face/hair look, and it's implied that this is part of why she gets picked on by the popular, attractive girls at school. Calvin's a bigger nerd than she is, personality-wise, and iirc she's kind of confused why he would want to hang out with her because he's popular and she's the school freak as it were.

I was phrasing it as a question because it's been quite some time since I read the book and I couldn't remember. Assuming it's accurate, your description answers my question, but it's not entirely fair to quote me and leave the pertinent part of my comment out.

One detail I'll always remember is that her hair was straight on one side of her head and wavy on the other. As someone with a lot of unfortunate cowlicks in weird places, I could relate!

I vaguely recall one of the books saying that even people who didn't know her personally remembered her when they saw her around town because of how ugly she was.

IIRC, in the first book she overhears some neighborhood busybody in the post office saying that there mustbe something to the idea that brilliant people have abnormal children, because "the twins seem normal enough, but that unattractive girl...and the youngest one doesn't even talk..."

Sadly, a black man with a white woman is still pretty verboten on tv. But a white man with a black women is a-okay and doesn't threaten anyone, doncherknow.

I wouldn't say verboten. Controversial, yes. Certainly more so than any combination of white man/POC woman.

Well, let's say 'verboten' to those of the conservative mindset. I mean - do you remember the pearl-clutching hysteria when that Cheerio commercial came out?

Yep. But I'd say that "verboten on tv" is different than "verboten to the conservative mindset". IA that many socially conservative people feel threatened by interracial couples in general and this one in particular. But it's not so controversial that you never see it. It's just rare.

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And yet, the opposite is what I see more IRL (and, when I see them, white man/black woman couples skew younger).

Hee, I've never really noticed. We have a lot of 'mixed' couples here, mostly because of the military base, where so many people from so many states (and countries) mix and mingle. Makes for one of the most diverse communities in the area, and very diverse schools, too, which i *really* liked for the Monstrous Bebe.

She's tying her shirt around her waist. Total faux pas. GET THE NERD.

That's Hollywood.

I see what you mean, but there are red-headed black people.

Also is it some kind of plot point that she's a red-head? I don't remember it being any kind of important point, and I actually forgot about it, though it's been many years since I read the book.

Only in that she was a funny-looking teenager and grew into her features.

Someone mentioned the mom being the redhead. Idk about the girl.

Yeah, not like red hair is exclusive to white people.

was coming down to say the same thing. The red-headed gene mutation began in Africa, back in humanity's early days, and it's a striking combination.

She's also described as having violet eyes and light skin tho iirc (I think "creamy" was the word used). The dad is described as having brown hair but no skin tone is mentioned. It does make more sense to make the character with no canonically described skin tone black than the one who's described as having eyes that are a mutation of the blue eye gene + light skin.

Haha, yes, I only wish I was that cute and put-together when I was a teenage nerd!

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