Are you teased or bullied for being a Fan?
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Don't you just hate that, they are not the same thing at all
Hopefully she knows the difference between Spider-Man and Superman.
I was never teased or bullied about being a Trekkie. Not as a teen in the 70's or as an adult. Even today, my wife, kids, and granddaughter actively support my life long hobby.
was this before the Pepsi Generation?It's funny. While clearing out my parents' old house last summer, I stumbled onto a cache of fan fiction I wrote back in junior high, long before I even knew what "fan fiction" was. (And, no, it wasn't that kind of fanfic.)
So clearly I was doomed at an early age . . .
It was the Pepsi Generation.
No, never. I don't advertise being a Trekkie but I don't think that's the reason.
I'm sure some people would give me odd looks if I ran around in Trek uniforms but merchandise has never been something I was interested in when it comes to fashion or home decoration choices. I don't think there's anything sci-fi-related on display in my flat.
I never hid my like for Trek, though. People in school were aware of it but nobody seemed to care.
Funny enough I have gotten shit from male nerds for being a female nerd. So in all honesty I think for women the sexism in geekdom can be way worse than any reaction by non-nerds.
And of course there's the "WTF, you're a model and a nerd????" reaction which never ceases to amuse me.
I'm sure some people would give me odd looks if I ran around in Trek uniforms but merchandise has never been something I was interested in when it comes to fashion or home decoration choices. I don't think there's anything sci-fi-related on display in my flat.
I never hid my like for Trek, though. People in school were aware of it but nobody seemed to care.
Funny enough I have gotten shit from male nerds for being a female nerd. So in all honesty I think for women the sexism in geekdom can be way worse than any reaction by non-nerds.
And of course there's the "WTF, you're a model and a nerd????" reaction which never ceases to amuse me.
Long, long before.
And I can't believe you remember Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation.
(For the uninitiated, that was a fan film one of my old housemates made back in the eighties. I've got a screen credit for contributing a few jokes.)
Not this again.
I don't get that. When I was a teenager a female nerd was like hitting the jackpot! I was lucky though since my girlfriend in high school had similar interests as me. We even both read Elfquest!
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Yes would think so but most geeky guys still thought of us as just friends (shattering the myth that men and women cannot be friends). We were like honorary members of the club. The Smurfettes. They still wanted to be with the head cheerleader which was fine by me but then I met Mr. Right at fairly young age. He wasn't a nerd but was very tolerant.
Yes would think so but most geeky guys still thought of us as just friends (shattering the myth that men and women cannot be friends). We were like honorary members of the club. The Smurfettes. They still wanted to be with the head cheerleader which was fine by me but then I met Mr. Right at fairly young age. He wasn't a nerd but was very tolerant.
Maybe it's different for others, but as a teenage geeky guy, I saw ALL women as being unattainable as romantic partners. Of course, I had zero self-confidence and a Raj-level inability to talk to women. Especially women I found attractive, which would have definitely included the female nerds I went to school with.
It got better.
I used to get teased in middle school back in the 70s. Nothing really malicious but it got old real fast.
I never got into star trek until I was in my mid 20s. So I never experienced that in school. What I did experience was something when I fell in love wth nerd culture. Being a 6 foot construction worker in work coveralls and a pilsner hat, stepping out of an oversized truck, and walking into a comic store, the owners would talk to me like I wasn't allowed to be there. Like I was an idiot. I've always struggled at video game stores. I'll ask them for a specific title and they'd steer me toward NHL or madden. And anytime I'd say I'm a trekkie to anyone, or claim to be a science fiction fan, there was always some difficult set of questions I "needed" to be able to answer before I was "allowed" to be a fan. Breaking into nerd culture later in life with little knowledge of it, was far far harder then I thought it would be. It's like the reverse of high school. Funny enough, I was never into sports either. But when I did decide to give hockey a watch and get into it later in life as well, the guys who were jocks in high school were totally accepting, even though I didn't know the rules. More of a "sure let me explain what icing is". It's funny how things change. And I don't mean any of what I've said as an Insult to the trek community, which I'm proud to be part of, but God was I talked down to constantly when I tried to break into it.
I don't remember being teased in middle school or high school, at least to my face. Most of my friends were into some sort of sci-fi and we did our own thing. I was however relentlessly teased by my older sister. If she wasn't picking on my older brother for being a Star Wars fan, she was picking on me for being a Trek fan. I didn't care then what anyone thought and I don't care now what anyone thinks. I watch my show(s) and wear my Star Trek swag like a boss.
I think my dad teased me more about Star Trek than anyone in school.
Same here, even one of the last time I saw him, he called me sad with a glint in his eye when I was telling him about my latest starship.
They had some preconceived notion of what a Trek fan should be like. And they thought you didn't fit into that mold.
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