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I don't love the connotation that the term "nerd" has for various people. In my country of birth, you know everything about soccer, you are "a person", maybe a
by Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago
I don't love the connotation that the term "nerd" has for various people. In my country of birth, you know everything about soccer, you are "a person", maybe a "soccer team x fan".
if you know everything about computers, or videogames, you are a nerd. The normalization of the term (good), did not change the connotation: "guy who likes computers/videogames/even board games".
Maybe it's me, but it feels offensive, unless you start calling the soccer fan "nerd" too (which would make sense).
- drewcoo 2y agoWhen I was a kid, nerds were bookish and into math and the arts and liked seeing how different ideas and disciplines worked together. Auto mechanic who's into 18th century literature and likes to explain how the cars are "just like" those books? That's a nerd. Geeks were more monomaniacal. There were Star Trek geeks (two opposing groups of them!), computer geeks (clustered around their chosen systems), gamer geeks, etc. Geeks did not accept the nerds. I wonder if part of the reason for that is that the geeks tended to be tribal and conflict-seeking and nerds were typically not "joiners" and tended to avoid conflict. I'm a bit offended by calling computer geeks "nerds" because it robs nerds of identity.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y agothis is so confusing, I like my "I like computers" thing, lol
- hxii 2y agoI've definitely heard the term "soccer nerd" before ;) I thing the negative nerd stigma was mostly with the millennials during our teenage years, and now that some of them that weren't "nerds" back then are developers now, it begins to soften up.