From: thefridayjones@hotmail.com (Friday Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2002
The geek putdown tree:
http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
AH!! Just this morning I was accusing people of being wimps for not
being geeky enough, but was unsure if "wimp" was the right put-down.
Could I instead have accused them of being, say, "nerds" because they
aren't geeky enough? That was my question.
This chart is of some help, but really is too specific to the
SF-pro-and-down subcategories of geeks. Where, for instance, are the
COMPUTER geeks? The REGULAR movie geeks? The SUBGENIUS geeks? The
PAGANS? The POLITICAL geeks? And dare we, as did the Onion, drag in the
SPORTS geeks?
Nonetheless, for its subcategories, this chart seems accurate enough to
me, and I know the territory, residing as I do currently in SEVERAL of
those Sf fandom related niches simulaneously, from top to bottom.
"Amateur Fantasy-SF Artists Who Can't Get Breasts Right" being one
example.
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From: parsee@whale-mail.com (King St. Edwin)
"Rev. Ivan Stang"
>
>
> AH!! Just this morning I was accusing people of being wimps for not
> being geeky enough, but was unsure if "wimp" was the right put-down.
> Could I instead have accused them of being, say, "nerds" because they
> aren't geeky enough? That was my question.
>
> This chart is of some help, but really is too specific to the
> SF-pro-and-down subcategories of geeks. Where, for instance, are the
> COMPUTER geeks? The REGULAR movie geeks? The SUBGENIUS geeks? The
> PAGANS? The POLITICAL geeks? And dare we, as did the Onion, drag in the
> SPORTS geeks?
>
> Nonetheless, for its subcategories, this chart seems accurate enough to
> me, and I know the territory, residing as I do currently in SEVERAL of
> those Sf fandom related niches simulaneously, from top to bottom.
> "Amateur Fantasy-SF Artists Who Can't Get Breasts Right" being one
> example.
See FAQ #2 below:
http://www.brunching.com/features/geekhierarchyfpq.html
Yeah, I was having a little correspondence about the chart with a fan
of mine the other day, which was a followup to a discussion we've been
having about erotic furries. She wrote that I was SO RIGHT when I
connected their existence to geekdom. I had just seen the bit on MTV
about them and never heard of them previously. (The fact that they
have conventions gave it away for me.) She thinks that since she wears
plushie slippers, that she might be a closeted furry.
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From: prostata@bronze.coil.com (The Stinking Bishop Prostata Cantata MP)
In article <020220021313387516%stang@subgenius.com>,
Rev. Ivan Stang
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>AH!! Just this morning I was accusing people of being wimps for not
>being geeky enough, but was unsure if "wimp" was the right put-down.
>Could I instead have accused them of being, say, "nerds" because they
>aren't geeky enough? That was my question.
As a practicing nerd of the first water, I would
be very offended
by the use of the title 'nerd' to describe wimpy geeks.
I recomend instead the use of 'wuss', 'l4m3r', or
'week'.
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