-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I missed the original, but it appears that Peter Trei once claimed that Tim May wrote:
People with pride in themselves and what they do can make their detractors eat their insults. We should make it clear that "nerd," "dweeb," "geek," "jerk," etc. are where the money is. We should turn them into terms of pride in what we are and what we do.
Maybe it's a generational thing (though Bill is as old as me, I think), but terms of insult are just that. The biggest users seem to be clueless journalists, like blonde bimbette Sue Hutchinson of the "S.J. Mercury News," who writes repeatedly of "nerdfests," and "geek conventions." (Hey, maybe womyn need to reclaim the terms "bimbo" and "airhead"?)
Actually, I know Sue, and I believe she has. She's got a rather healthy sense of humor, thank you, "for a womyn." I don't think it's a generational thing, because lord (tm) knows that there are members of my generation with sticks firmly up their asses, too. - -rich nerd - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM$/GSS d- s++:- a- C++ UU+ P++ L+ E- W+++ N++ o+ K++ w !O M+ V-- PS++ PE Y++ PGP++ t 5 X R- tv- b+ DI++ D- G+ e++* h r* y+ - -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBMfldt5NcNyVVy0jxAQEXMgIAh+jiyGCmcJUm2Adzq46I51/QhBeMAejn yXQER/sdniq2esC6jH/07eHScp5m1WUy9m4UW+MSR92PKryghb1b0w== =gXd/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----