#nerd entitlement

[thegamefulscholar]

White male nerds need to recognise that other people had traumatic upbringings, too - and that's different from structural oppression.

[boycott-love]

Hi there, shy, nerdy boys. Your suffering was and is real. I really fucking hope that it got better, or at least is getting better, At the same time, I want you to understand that that very real suffering does not cancel out male privilege, or make it somehow alright. Privilege doesn’t mean you don’t suffer, which, I know, totally blows. Women generally don’t get to think of men as less than human, not because we’re inherently better people, not because our magical feminine energy makes us more empathetic, but because patriarchy doesn’t let us. We’re really not allowed to just not consider men’s feelings, or to suppose for an instant that a man’s main or only relevance to us might be his prospects as a sexual partner. That’s just not the way this culture expects us to think about men. Men get to be whole people at all times. Women get to be objects, or symbols, or alluring aliens whose responses you have to game to “get” what you want. This is why Silicon Valley Sexism. This is why Pick Up Artists. This is why Rape Culture.

Laurie Penny (http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement-rebel-alliance-empire)

[omegaspreem]

[trigger warning: social justice, condemnation of some feminism, tangential reference to eating disorder. Note that although our names are very similar, I am NOT the same person as Scott Aaronson a...

Man, I am floored by the absolutely amazing responses that these people can create. It's just outstanding how amazingly well written this is and just how it portrays the issue at hand so well. I have to thank this dude because this is glorious.

[bolshevikpunx]

These are curious times. Gender and privilege and power and technology are changing and changing each other. We've also had a major and specific reversal of social fortunes in the past 30 years. Two generations of boys who grew up at the lower end of the violent hierarchy of toxic masculinity - the losers, the nerds, the ones who were afraid of being creeps - have reached adulthood and found the polarity reversed. Suddenly they're the ones with the power and the social status. Science is a way that shy, nerdy men pull themselves out of the horror of their teenage years. That is true. That is so. But shy, nerdy women have to try to pull themselves out of that same horror into a world that hates, fears and resents them because they are women, and to a certain otherwise very intelligent sub-set of nerdy men, the category "woman" is defined primarily as "person who might or might not deny me sex, love and affection.

[inclusivetech]

White male nerds need to recognise that other people had traumatic upbringings, too - and that's different from structural oppression.  

[voidscreamingformillenials]

White male nerds need to recognise that other people had traumatic upbringings, too - and that's different from structural oppression.  

[sorinkavglazy]

Remember that Arthur Chu's article I posted recently? (http://www.salon.com/2014/05/28/arthur_chu_mansplains_entitlement_to_nerdy_men_stop_trying_to_win_girls/) Here's another one - not his but it gives the nerd-must-get-the-girl some perspective. Quite narrow but nonetheless interesting - http://www.salon.com/2014/05/30/amazon_is_killing_my_sex_life_partner/

[cakespeare]

On Pearl-Clutching

People seem to be suddenly forgetting how tags work on Tumblr. Some users track tags for things that they love or are enthusiastic about/interested in, okay? If you're going to spew vitriol on some fannish enterprise and then tag it, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE IT. And if your arguments are standing on a pretty shaky limb, people are going to kick that mother up for you.

To quote that great sociological treatise of our time, Men in Black, "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'."