Nevanmaa wrote:I have nothing against girl gamers or geek girls.
"girl gamers" screaming "LOOK AT ME I'M FEMALE AND I PLAY GAMES LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME GIVE ME ATTENTION TEE HEE HEE I'M SUCH A GEEK YOU SILLY BOYS GIVE ME ATTENTION" are a whole different matter.
I find the number of women screaming "LOOK AT ME I'M FEMALES GIVE ME ATTENTION" to be profoundly and staggeringly outnumbered by men who feel that any woman who dares to merely exist in their sacred spaces and share the same hobbies is an "attention whore".
And I note the irony of the quoted poster's statement, as his entire history on NS has been one long drawn out cry for attention.
The simple fact is, there's no such thing as "posers" because there's no such thing as "geek culture". We, as a society, have fortunately moved on to the point where liking certain things no longer results in social stigma, and people who might like watching a movie about a bunch of superheroes no longer have to feel that they can't tell their friends about it.
And that's a GOOD thing.
The bad thing, however, is the fact that things often associated with "geek culture" had, for many years, been the refuge of the socially maladjusted. And now people are throwing a prissy little fit about their special special hobby being associated with the "normals". "geek culture" existed as an escape, a way to foll themselves into thinking "so what if I'm not as good looking, or as funny, or as successful, or as popular, I can kick their asses in halo!"
The fact is, the only people who actually have a problem here, are the people who can't handle the reality that there may exist people in this world who are smarter than they are, better looking than they are, more successful than they are, have a better sex life than they do, and still also enjoy the same things they do.
In short, the only people who rail incessantly on about "posers" and "fake geeks" are people who have failed to learn one very very simple lesson.
Life's not fair.
Grow the fuck up and deal with it.