It feels sometimes like the jock/nerd conflict has become a really overriding obsession.
::nods::
I do think there is some kind of a preference for obsessive characters, but for me that's connected more to story--keeping me involved in the story by making the character have a real stake in whatever's happening. (Like a character who's obsessive about solving the story's problem.) But I get that you’re talking about a different kind of obsession. I hate when they make the character say, have poor social skills or get nerdier and nerdier for no apparent reason other than they want to make it about some kind of nerd/jock conflict, which I do agree, in some stories, seems to be an overriding obsession to fulfill.
Or take established characters and force one into each side of that nerd/jock equation, just to have that contrast. Instead of going for something more interesting.
And I hate the idea that in order to fit in this one group, you have to not be a member of the other group. Talk about cliques! Being a member of the nerd group or geek group seems to currently have as many rules as being thought of as 'successful' or well-rounded or whatever you want to call it—the group that’s the ‘not geeks’/’not nerds’?
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It feels sometimes like the jock/nerd conflict has become a really overriding obsession.
::nods::
I do think there is some kind of a preference for obsessive characters, but for me that's connected more to story--keeping me involved in the story by making the character have a real stake in whatever's happening. (Like a character who's obsessive about solving the story's problem.) But I get that you’re talking about a different kind of obsession. I hate when they make the character say, have poor social skills or get nerdier and nerdier for no apparent reason other than they want to make it about some kind of nerd/jock conflict, which I do agree, in some stories, seems to be an overriding obsession to fulfill.
Or take established characters and force one into each side of that nerd/jock equation, just to have that contrast. Instead of going for something more interesting.
And I hate the idea that in order to fit in this one group, you have to not be a member of the other group. Talk about cliques! Being a member of the nerd group or geek group seems to currently have as many rules as being thought of as 'successful' or well-rounded or whatever you want to call it—the group that’s the ‘not geeks’/’not nerds’?
The more competence, the better the porn indeed!