ShardPhoenix comments on Science, Engineering, and Uncoolness; Here and Now, Then and There - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Ritalin 08 December 2012 07:52PM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 09 December 2012 12:17:25PM 2 points [-]

Is your premise true? My impression is that being a nerd/geek has increased in acceptability over the last decade or so (perhaps due to the popularization of the internet).

Comment author: Ritalin 09 December 2012 01:44:02PM 6 points [-]

Complete with happy, fit people with good fashion sense calling themselves "geeks", and people complaining that those aren't real geeks. "It's Popular Now It Sucks!"