Re: Insults (was: PBS show)
At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here. (Except to say that "nerds," "geeks," and "dweebs" are terms of insult, and anyone who accepts this labelling by the media and by "jerks" (a comparable term, by the way) is proably just a dweeb anyone, so I guess the term is accurate.)
IMHO the best way to deal with an insult is to make it a badge of pride. This is how my ancestors in revolutionary New England dealt with being called Yankees. It beats hell out of trying to force the rest of the world to call your group something different every 10 years of so, like some groups have been doing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here. (Except to say that "nerds," "geeks," and "dweebs" are terms of insult, and
IMHO the best way to deal with an insult is to make it a badge of pride.
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Simon Spero wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here. (Except to say that "nerds," "geeks," and "dweebs" are terms of insult, and
IMHO the best way to deal with an insult is to make it a badge of pride.
Geek Pride! Yes! Time to start Hacked-Up!
"We're Freaks! We're Geeks! We've got RSA, Get Used To It"
We're freaks, we're geeks, we've got your data and we're not afraid to use it? Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@crash.suba.com
Simon: On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Simon Spero wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
I personally despise the term "nerd," but I won't get into that here. (Except to say that "nerds," "geeks," and "dweebs" are terms of insult, IMHO the best way to deal with an insult is to make it a badge of pride. Geek Pride! Yes! Time to start Hacked-Up! "We're Freaks! We're Geeks! We've got RSA, Get Used To It"
Note in passing that both "Baptist" and "Mormon" were originally terms of insult heaped on members of those respective faiths. xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com ********************************************************************** * * * Opinions expressed don't necessarily reflect my own views. * * * * There is no way that they can be construed to represent * * any organization's views. * * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * * * http://members.tripod.com/~graphology/index.html * * * ***********************************************************************
In message <Pine.3.89.9606140305.A10802-0100000@netcom19>, jonathon writes:
Note in passing that both "Baptist" and "Mormon" were originally terms of insult heaped on members of those respective faiths.
I think "Quaker" had a similar history.. Derek Bell
Derek Bell writes:
In message <Pine.3.89.9606140305.A10802-0100000@netcom19>, jonathon writes:
Note in passing that both "Baptist" and "Mormon" were originally terms of insult heaped on members of those respective faiths.
I think "Quaker" had a similar history..
Yes, as does "Queer". But the "crypto-" prefix has an additional meaning that may make its use somewhat problematic. A "crypto-" something can be a "fake-" or "hidden-" something. So if it actually became popular to be a geek, you'd have cool people becoming crypto-geeks. -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | PGP ok 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | It's no mistake to err on Potsdam, NY 13676 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | the side of freedom.
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