The all-gender geek discussion thread

[Stella_Omega]

Boys, girls, hermaphrodites or neutrois-- A place for all of us to talk -- possibly relating to gender or not.


And I needed someplace to leave this adorable little film in which the hapless Wizzerd meets his maker;
Run, Rincewind, Run

 

[Loverskitten]

Boys, girls, hermaphrodites or neutrois-- Because we need one.

And I needed someplace to leave this adorable little film in which the hapless Wizzerd meets his maker;
Run, Rincewind, Run

What about "The Nerd Herd!"?
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=756470

Or are nerds and geeks different? Are they? I really don't know

 

[ace195008]

Nerd herd , love .since I been on the outside most of my life, bring it on !

 

[KoPilot]

Meh, we have different needs than the binary-ed. While I argue for women in the "geek woman" thread, it's strange to always feel like I have to put a disclaimer at the end of every post there saying "I'm not a woman, but most geeks would think I am and treat me accordingly, so I have A Say".

It just feels disingenuous to lump all "not-men" together under one category too, frankly.

I'm basically gonna treat this as the "being not cis in geekdom" thread, but that's just me.

 

[Stella_Omega]

What about "The Nerd Herd!"?
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=756470

Or are nerds and geeks different? Are they? I really don't know

Oh I am so embarrassed, I didn't remember that thread.

 

[KoPilot]

My group's brand of geekery in public school was occultism and witchcraft, so we got treated like shit for a number of reasons. We called everyone not like us "domesticates".

Man, those were shitty years.

 

[Ahlam]

To identify as a "geek" or a "nerd" is, I think, to be a part of a greater or lesser clique. (The "Nerd Herd," for example.) That sort of bothers me. At what point does sharing common interests with others devolve into "Us and Them" and is it possible to avoid? I know it's a normal or natural phenomenon, but it can get out of control sometimes.

 

[Bramblethorn]

spelling fix

My group's brand of geekery in public school was occultism and witchcraft, so we got treated like shit for a number of reasons. We called everyone not like us "domesticates".

Man, those were shitty years.

School was odd for me. Most of the other kids were fine; some bullying that was bad for a couple of years, but they grew out of it. The part that really have me grief was the hierarchy.

And it wasn't like I was a troublesome student. I was boringly well-behaved, did well in class, but there were a few teachers who were just crappy horrible people. The sort where you read an obituary years later and think "wow, she had loved ones?"