What’s so wrong about the popularization of the ‘nerd’ culture
This used to be a safe space for some people. Until suddenly, it wasn’t.
I’ve struggled a lot about whether I should submit this article to my publication. Hell, I’ve even thought about not writing it at all. Because the language I’m going to use here may not be to everyone’s liking. It may come off as ‘angry’ or ‘divisive’ or whichever other label the person reading this might choose to put on it. But I’m going to write it anyway and just leave it here. Because there are some things that I feel need to be said.
I don’t like streamers. I don’t like the nerd culture. I don’t like people walking around in the street wearing their Marvel or DC or Dragon Ball T-Shirts. I find that extremely annoying, not to mention pretentious. Because up until a few years ago and even today, some people suffered for that. And for many of us, those things that people casually wear to look cool mean a whole lot more.
As a person who grew up in a white-male dominated society, up until the dawn of the new millennium, for me there were only two types of guys: the be-good-at-sports, have-a-good-looking-body and get-all-the-girls kind of guy and the be-ignored-by-everyone-no-matter-how-hard-you-try type of guy. For the former, everything seemed to come easy and they didn’t really need to put much effort into…
