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The question is why is the connection between men and trains relatively strong? OP never implied liking trains was restricted to men. Rephrasing to "nerds" do
by randyrand 8y ago
The question is why is the connection between men and trains relatively strong? OP never implied liking trains was restricted to men.
Rephrasing to "nerds" doesn't change anything.
- bobthepanda 8y agoTrains are a complicated problem space where a lot of impressive large-scale and small-scale engineering has been done over the course more than a century, but where you can still explain how stuff actually works at the layperson level. On top of that a fair amount of laypeople will interact with and even depend on a train on a fairly regular basis, in a way that is not necessarily true of other problem spaces; railroads have been romanticized in media for decades in a way that few other technologies have been.
- jacquesm 8y ago> railroads have been romanticized in media for decades in a way that few other technologies have been. Cars, space travel, boats, aircraft, all manner of transportation has been romanticized as much or even more than trains.
- bobthepanda 8y agoAnd all of those also have a lot of nerds who like those things.
- usrusr 8y agoExcept for cars, those who obsess about cars are considered the antithesis of a nerd.
- gambiting 8y agoSince when? I work at a games studio, you couldn't imagine more dorky people than those who work here, and yet there's several serious petrolheads here, we go to car meets, one dude rents a barn to keep all of his rare US-imports and to work on them in his spare time..... I don't understand(and rather dislike) the notion that if you are a nerd/into computers, you have to automatically dislike cars.
- opinionator1 8y agoWrong, anybody who obsesses about anything is a nerd by definition.
- usrusr 8y agoObsession about muscle buildup strategies at the gym has rarely been associated with rhe term “nerd“. Those people can be quite nerdy, and even connect well with regular nerds if they find common ground, but isn't the mainstream accepted term “jocks“?
- bobthepanda 8y agoDepends on which problem space around cars we're talking about. Are we talking about the vehicles themselves? Then those aren't referred to by nerds in colloquial usage. That being said, there are a lot of nerds who obsess about things like highway systems, road planning and the like. There's also the electric car space, the AV space, etc.