Growing up as a geek girl, I have burned out my sympathy for whiny geek boys.
Some complaints are legitimate, getting beaten up sucks, and I can totally identified with that because I got beaten up too, but um, I find it hard to sympathize with the geek boy who's whining about how some popular conventionally pretty girl he rates higher than geek girls is too shallow to like him when he's doing said whining without a hint of irony. When Howard Wolowitz on Big Bang Theory explained that he stopped seeing Bernadette Rostenkowski when they started having a good relationship, because he was holding out for a Megan Fox (and one that would act like his arm candy instead of intimidating him with her own capabilities), I wanted to feed him to the salt sucker from M-113.
Geek boys get beaten up for not being 'manly' enough to play football by jocks intimidated by their intellect, maybe, well, I don't know why my age and gender peers gave me such a hard time back in /gradeschool/ for not wearing or giving a damn about nail polish and preferring reading to giggling about boys I'm not sure they are really interested in beyond because it's trendy yet, but point of the matter is: Geek Girls don't have it easier. I've heard about geek boys whine about how it's easier for the girls because girls can get dates no matter what, um
1) How can they say this when they rate us below conventionally pretty girls? Or girls following conventions.
2) Sexual harassment douchebags, ever seen Carrie? Because um, if you are a geek girl before geek was remotely chic, there will be boys in your class who'll see you as good enough for sexual harassment, but not good enough as girlfriends, who act as if their unwanted attention upon my body is a FAVOUR for me.
In general, unsubs are unsubs and they belong in jail. Occasionally there are some that deserve sympathy and medical treatment, for example, Samantha Malcolm. I don't think I can stay mad at her even if she had sewn a wig onto my scalp, because good god, her creeper father, I think she was the victim and her father was the villain.
In this episode, I have zero sympathy for Caleb, ZERO. Caleb is his name right?
...and Garcia is so adorable in this episode with her mega neko ears, and how come this episode is titled True Genius but no mention is made of how Garcia narrowed down who the two unsubs could be with her neat database shifting skillz?
Furthermore, and I say this as someone who, back in highschool, was one of the five members of the chessclub who got to play tournament, chess is a hobby, it requires forethought but being good with it doesn't crown you the master of the universe. Smart People Play Chess, but an increasingly apt trope I see is, "former prodigy present-day washout obsess about chess", fitting and sad.
...and yeah, at the end of the episode it was revealed that he wasn't obsessed with the girl, he was obsessed with his dominant partner, but at the point, rant already present! ...and he's definitely one of those geek boys who can whine about being the victim of alpha males while sexually exploiting girls. Why can't more geek boys be awesome like Barack Obama?
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Date: Jan. 20th, 2012 03:04 am (UTC)Some complaints are legitimate, getting beaten up sucks, and I can totally identified with that because I got beaten up too, but um, I find it hard to sympathize with the geek boy who's whining about how some popular conventionally pretty girl he rates higher than geek girls is too shallow to like him when he's doing said whining without a hint of irony. When Howard Wolowitz on Big Bang Theory explained that he stopped seeing Bernadette Rostenkowski when they started having a good relationship, because he was holding out for a Megan Fox (and one that would act like his arm candy instead of intimidating him with her own capabilities), I wanted to feed him to the salt sucker from M-113.
Geek boys get beaten up for not being 'manly' enough to play football by jocks intimidated by their intellect, maybe, well, I don't know why my age and gender peers gave me such a hard time back in /gradeschool/ for not wearing or giving a damn about nail polish and preferring reading to giggling about boys I'm not sure they are really interested in beyond because it's trendy yet, but point of the matter is: Geek Girls don't have it easier. I've heard about geek boys whine about how it's easier for the girls because girls can get dates no matter what, um
1) How can they say this when they rate us below conventionally pretty girls? Or girls following conventions.
2) Sexual harassment douchebags, ever seen Carrie? Because um, if you are a geek girl before geek was remotely chic, there will be boys in your class who'll see you as good enough for sexual harassment, but not good enough as girlfriends, who act as if their unwanted attention upon my body is a FAVOUR for me.
In general, unsubs are unsubs and they belong in jail. Occasionally there are some that deserve sympathy and medical treatment, for example, Samantha Malcolm. I don't think I can stay mad at her even if she had sewn a wig onto my scalp, because good god, her creeper father, I think she was the victim and her father was the villain.
In this episode, I have zero sympathy for Caleb, ZERO. Caleb is his name right?
...and Garcia is so adorable in this episode with her mega neko ears, and how come this episode is titled True Genius but no mention is made of how Garcia narrowed down who the two unsubs could be with her neat database shifting skillz?
Furthermore, and I say this as someone who, back in highschool, was one of the five members of the chessclub who got to play tournament, chess is a hobby, it requires forethought but being good with it doesn't crown you the master of the universe. Smart People Play Chess, but an increasingly apt trope I see is, "former prodigy present-day washout obsess about chess", fitting and sad.
...and yeah, at the end of the episode it was revealed that he wasn't obsessed with the girl, he was obsessed with his dominant partner, but at the point, rant already present! ...and he's definitely one of those geek boys who can whine about being the victim of alpha males while sexually exploiting girls. Why can't more geek boys be awesome like Barack Obama?