This community predominantly white, male, and nerd-like, and that makes it easily ignored by outsiders.
So white nerd-like males tend to generally get ignored in Western society? I haven’t seen much difference in the amount of attention female nerds tend to get (except among male nerds). Mostly female groups of nerds or subcultures don’t seem to attract even male nerd attention. Groups of non-white nerds also don’t seem to do better attention wise. Otakus aren’t taken seriously in Japan. Weaboos even less.
Mayybe, just maybe, could it perhaps be the nerd-like thing? Might we be better off working on that?
I see your point now, and I think might agree. Although, there are different more widely accepted versions of nerd culture (I think someone like Jonah Lehrer exemplifies that more acceptable culture), while the other versions are seen as populated by hopeless losers (e.g., the typical trekkie that’s laughed at in sitcoms). So, if you were to fight against LW nerd culture, I think you could keep a lot of it out in the open. You’d have to treat your love of Star Trek, for example, as sort of a guilty pleasure and laugh it off. And you could never mention that you like anime unless it’s by Miyazaki. But you could profess your love of books, science, and philosophy while gaining status for doing so.
So white nerd-like males tend to generally get ignored in Western society? I haven’t seen much difference in the amount of attention female nerds tend to get (except among male nerds). Mostly female groups of nerds or subcultures don’t seem to attract even male nerd attention. Groups of non-white nerds also don’t seem to do better attention wise. Otakus aren’t taken seriously in Japan. Weaboos even less.
Mayybe, just maybe, could it perhaps be the nerd-like thing? Might we be better off working on that?
I see your point now, and I think might agree. Although, there are different more widely accepted versions of nerd culture (I think someone like Jonah Lehrer exemplifies that more acceptable culture), while the other versions are seen as populated by hopeless losers (e.g., the typical trekkie that’s laughed at in sitcoms). So, if you were to fight against LW nerd culture, I think you could keep a lot of it out in the open. You’d have to treat your love of Star Trek, for example, as sort of a guilty pleasure and laugh it off. And you could never mention that you like anime unless it’s by Miyazaki. But you could profess your love of books, science, and philosophy while gaining status for doing so.