{"id":205796,"date":"2014-06-17T04:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T04:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/17\/frankly-put-i-am-a-fake-geek-guy-i-admit-it-i\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T04:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T04:13:04","slug":"frankly-put-i-am-a-fake-geek-guy-i-admit-it-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/17\/frankly-put-i-am-a-fake-geek-guy-i-admit-it-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Frankly put. I am a FAKE GEEK GUY. I admit it. I like geek stuff, but I don\u2019t love geek stuff. Not the way most geeks do. I\u2019m an interloper on the geek scene. I\u2019ve seen the movies, but I don\u2019t know the canon. I am not a true<\/i> fan.<\/p>\n

All those things about not really<\/i> loving the source material and \u201cjust watching the movies\u201d or only reading the one book that everyone has read. That\u2014all of that\u2014applies to me.<\/p>\n

But here are some things that have never happened to me. I have never been quizzed about who Data\u2019s evil brother is to prove I like Star Trek. I have never had to justify my place in a midnight line to see Spider-man II by knowing who took up the mantle of Spider-man after Peter Parker\u2019s death. (Peter Parker dies? Really? That\u2019s so sad!) I have never had to explain who Nightwing is in order to participate in a conversation about Batman. (Nightwing is like\u2026.Robin on steroids, right?) I have never been asked how battle meditation works in order to voice my opinion that Enterprise shields would probably make a fight with Star Wars technology one sided. (Battle meditation is something that was in that Jedi role playing game, wasn\u2019t it?) I have never had to beat everybody in the room (twice) at Mario Kart to prove I liked video games. I have never had my gender \u201chonorarily\u201d changed by having enough geek interests to be accepted (\u201cyou\u2019re one of the guys now\u201d). No one has ever insisted I tell them the difference between a tank and DPS in an MMORPG before allowing me to discuss raiding Molten Core. I have never been dismissed as a faker at a prequel screening because I didn\u2019t know which admiral came out of light speed too close to the planet\u2019s surface in The Empire Strikes Back. I have never been quizzed about Armor Class in order to get past someone who was blocking my path to the back of a game store where my friends were waiting at the tables. I have never been told I\u2019m not a real fan. I have never been shamed for coming to a convention despite my lack of esoteric knowledge. And I have never, ever, EVER been invited to leave a fandom because I didn\u2019t like [whatever it was] enough.<\/p>\n

Every one of the things I have listed, I have personally witnessed happen. To women.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not elitism. That\u2019s sexism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The \u201cFake Geek\u201d is Not The Problem When It Comes to \u201cFake Geek Girls\u201d<\/a> (via brutereason<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frankly put. I am a FAKE GEEK GUY. I admit it. I like geek stuff, but I don\u2019t love geek stuff. Not the way most geeks do. I\u2019m an interloper on the geek scene. I\u2019ve seen the movies, but I don\u2019t know the canon. I am not a true fan. All those things about not … <\/p>\n

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