Trekkie vs. Trekker

[La'T'Freja]

Anyway, to get the thread back on track, the point of this whole sidebar discussion is that it doesn't matter what you think of yourself or others or how you treat them. Soon as you tell someone you're a Trek fan, they're going to instantly judge you as being a different kind of person than they thought you were before you told them.

Personally, I would rather someone know that, and accept that--along with all my other geeky interests--than try and act like someone I am not.

And that's my original point - why should my being a Trek fan influence a woman's opinion about me one way or the other. If I was one of those sports nuts who paints his chest in team colors and wears a matching afro wig and foamy #1 finger in 10* weather, she'd say "Oh, that's so cool!" Why is that kind of fanaticism acceptable but being a Trek fan isn't?

What pisses me off the most about the whole thing is that these are the same women who are intensely interested in everything I say to them and every other aspect of my life...until Trek comes up...that's when the trouble starts.

Yeah, there's no bias there on either side.

Well, it just sounds to me like you're trying to chat up the wrong types of girl for you. I'm lucky my boyfriend doesn't mind me being a Trekkie/Trekker; bless him, he doesn't like it but he tries for me lol. Of course, I think that one of the things he liked most about me when we started going out was that I would love and watch action movies with him and was never one for chick-flicks really (but after 6 and a half years there's far more to the realtionship than these points, but I'm just using it as an example) So you really have to look for someone who shares and/or respects your interests and not try running after these girls you mentioned, whom I can only describe as "jock-loving cheerleaders" from your analogies.

Fortunately, that's not really a thing here where I live

Trekkie/Trekker, who cares? I'm having fun

 

[1001001]

Anystar is that pic from Trekkies 2?

It's from the movie Fanboys about Star Wars fans trying to see Episode 1 before the public. They meet Trekkies and get in a fight. It's fiction.

I really enjoyed that movie.

Hence the signature....

 

[Ziz]

Well, it just sounds to me like you're trying to chat up the wrong types of girl for you.

At the rate I'm going, there doesn't seem to be a right type.

 

[AnyStar]

Anystar is that pic from Trekkies 2?

its from Fanboys
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/

its a Star Wars centric film, but its a pretty good one though.

edit: oops, didnt see that was already explained... TWICE! sorry

 

[Greg Cox]

Anyone else read GEEKTASTIC? It's an anthology of short stories set in the world of fandom. There's a funny story about a Klingon fan who, after partying a little too hard at a convention, hooks up with (gasp!) a STAR WARS fan. In a Jedi robe, no less.

Much horror and social awkwardness ensues . . . .

 

[Rush Limborg]

^(Snickers) That should prove...interesting.

Oh, and that Trek-hating girl I was talking about?

Attack of the Clones was her favorite Star Wars film.

Fortunately, she agreed with me that Revenge of the Sith was, and I quote her, "So STUPID! It was so predictable!"

 

[Nardpuncher]

One thing I've noticed is that many people that are newly-minted fans may call themselves Trekkies. Also actors that in Trek, when they're interviewed always spew that line about being a Trekkie for years and so on.
Most people that are die hard fans or at least fans a long time go by Trekker. Though I think some of us, myself included, can return to the Trekkie label and be OK with it. It just ends up that I don't really mind.

 

[Arpy]

Real men are Trekkies.

 

[RegFan]

There's no difference between a Trekker and a Trekkie. I prefer "Trekker" because "Trekkie" sounds like it's ridiculous to like Trek that much. I think of myself as a Trekker/Trekkie.