at some point I am going to have something more than dot points to say about
- how “geek culture” is, in my experience, just like hipster culture but with a slightly more developed persecution complex and slightly less self-aware status jockeying and, actually, more sexism and sexual harassment; subtitle, the deadening familiarity of nerd banter in cadence and content, a critique from an escapee
- the misogyny and narcissism of queer men who complain to you that most men are dickheads and it’s all right for you because there are more radical women out there and you can get laid by an anti-imperialist anarcha-feminist but how is he supposed to find a boyfriend? i.e. “most people like me are comfortable with their lot in life and therefore kind of reactionary but instead of connecting with them and trying to change this, a useful act of feminist solidarity, I’m just going to complain to women about how massively self-congratulatory subcultures that purport to have feminism as a shared value actually do, surprisingly, end up appealing to and centering women, and who cares about women’s experience of misogyny from potential male partners, amirite, let’s talk about the real victims of men’s shitty attitudes: queer guys!” (this is actually a thing I’ve heard from a number of queer guys and is not specific to any one individual, swear to God, if it sounds super familiar that’s because these conversations are all the same)
- basically the misogyny of men who purport to be immune from it just because they perceive themselves not to be right at the top of the alpha male hierarchy, plus some other stuff about complacent “outsider” subcultures
