Enough With The Geek Bashing

I enjoy listening to sports talk radio. But whenever there is an event movie out like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, these guys start spouting off about all the "geeks" and "losers" who go to see the movies.

This supports my theory that no one ever graduates from high school. The cool people don't watch movies, they call in to sports talk shows, I guess. Sure, let's pick on people who happen to pull themselves away from ESPN for long enough to watch a movie.

One local radio jock took callers and asked them if they were going to see Revenge of the Sith. He got responses like:

"I used to watch Star Wars, but then I started liking girls."

Yeah, I'm sure this guy was calling from the freaking Playboy Mansion. This is the same type of guy who keeps ordering crappy chicken wings at Hooters because he thinks the waitress is into him. He's never seen Star Wars because he's too much of a pimp. Right.

"Those geeks dress up to see a stupid movie."

Yeah, it's goofy and I wouldn't do it. But who cares? How come no one says anything about the guys who go shirtless in sub-freezing weather slathered in their team's colors? And isn't there something a little odd about wearing a jersey with another man's name on it?

Don't get me wrong, I like sports. But in moderation. I admit to getting a little fanatical about pop culture, but let he without obsessions cast the first stone.

A fanatical interest in sports is merely a more socially acceptable subset of geekdom.

Sports fanatics are just as bad as fanboys. In at least one aspect, they are worse: They actually think they can influence the outcome over a game while watching it on television. I know guys who have lucky chairs, jerseys and, in one case, a stuffed Notre Dame leprechaun that he holds during games. Sure, some guys may go see ROTS dressed up like a stormtrooper, but no one is saying "I wore my lucky t-shirt today so that Anakin won't succumb to the Dark Side" or "I have to sit in the aisle seat or Frodo won't be able to destroy the One Ring."

Guess what? There is nothing that you can do from the comfort of your couch that is going to help your team win. So change your underwear already. You're not going to jinx the team.

Another thing, just because we go see LOTR or Harry Potter doesn't mean we believe in magic. Yet untold people blamed the Red Sox' recently ended championship drought on a curse.

Also, geeks don't internalize the movies the way sports fanatics do. When the Death Star blew up, no one yelled "Yeah! We did it! We're number 1!" I root for the home team, but I know that whether they won or lost, I wasn't on the field at the time.

Oh and I'm sorry, but if you're still driving a car with a "3" decal on your back window, seek help. My grandfather was a great man and an excellent driver, I don't have his driver's license number stuck to my rear window.

I wouldn't bash them, myself.


I had a lovely honeymoon on Corfu - they really are quite sweet people if you get to know them properly.

Slash said:

damn, that's terrible.

Essentially, all men are babies first and geeks second.

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Adisa said:

Essentially all women master being full of shit straight from birth and don't need to evolve into geeks.

geek,” a guy who does really gross and disgusting things in the side show at the carnival.
The classic act for the carnival geek was to bite the head off of a chicken.

ewwwww