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This article feels like the grown up version of being ostracized at school: As a teenager, you get made fun of[1] for liking geeky stuff, people call you weird
by probably_wrong 10y ago
This article feels like the grown up version of being ostracized at school:
As a teenager, you get made fun of[1] for liking geeky stuff, people call you weird, all usually followed by the phrase "you'll never get laid".
Now all those geeks have grown up, and moved to Silicon Valley to do what they love. And here's a newspaper article to point at how weird they are, and how they will never get laid.
Why is this even an article? There's no real content here, only a couple random anecdotes and an opening paragraph about Trump, for some reason.
[1] It used to be that liking comics and programming made you a loser, but I don't know whether that's still "out" with kids these days.
- coldtea 10y ago>This article feels like the grown up version of being ostracized at school: As a teenager, you get made fun of[1] for liking geeky stuff, people call you weird, all usually followed by the phrase "you'll never get laid" The grown up version is simply called "life". People will always judge people that don't fit into social norms. That's part and parcel with being in a society, as opposed to doing whatever one wants in the wilderness. Even worse, and that's something people tend to ignore these days: not fitting into social norms is not necessarily something to be cherished. In some cases it is, but in others it's the social norms that are right and not the outlier. (In some cases that's obvious: nobody would consider a junky or a hoarder totally fine).