I'm so glad people said those things in the thread! So true!
Your thoughts remind me of the scene in American Splendour when they see Revenge of the Nerds and Harvey points out that the nerds in the movie are rich enough that they're going to college and have computers they didn't get from "saving box tops" like his friend Toby who loves the movie and identifies with the nerds. Of course the comic American Splendour is all about class but that's an additional critique of the idea of nerds as outsiders; Harvey and his fellow file clerks are much more on the outside. And certainly the intense consumerism of nerd culture bears that out.
And ugh yes fanboys are so entitled because they are so focussed on the one privilege they don't have. Makes me think a lot about intersectionality and the problems of white cis upper-middle class dominated feminism, white male upper-middle class dominated gay rights movement, white male straight cis dominated labor movement, etc.
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Your thoughts remind me of the scene in American Splendour when they see Revenge of the Nerds and Harvey points out that the nerds in the movie are rich enough that they're going to college and have computers they didn't get from "saving box tops" like his friend Toby who loves the movie and identifies with the nerds. Of course the comic American Splendour is all about class but that's an additional critique of the idea of nerds as outsiders; Harvey and his fellow file clerks are much more on the outside. And certainly the intense consumerism of nerd culture bears that out.
And ugh yes fanboys are so entitled because they are so focussed on the one privilege they don't have. Makes me think a lot about intersectionality and the problems of white cis upper-middle class dominated feminism, white male upper-middle class dominated gay rights movement, white male straight cis dominated labor movement, etc.