Nerds and Male Privilege Part 2: Deconstructing the Arguments
A few months ago, I wrote an article on nerds and male privilege. Maybe you read it.
Nerds and Male Privilege
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Did I oversimplify an issue with regards to male privilege? Did I miss an aspect of male privilege in geek culture that you feel needs to be highlighted? Sound off in the comments and let me know.We Offer 3DS Advice To Nerds
I appeared on College Humor's Nerd Alert show yesterday in order to make the other people on the show seem funnier.
How Otaku Annoy Other Otaku
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Are you a nerd or a geek? If calculations are correct, I've probably pissed off oodles of others, who have also pissed off their fair share of fellow nerds. It's a vicious cycle: otaku (loosely "geek" or "nerd") pissing off other otaku. But it exists and, otaku being otaku, there's not much one can do about it.