Just once I’d like a post where everyone is chill and positive about stuff instead of focusing on negative

Edit: I dunno why I expect people to ever be capable of being positive anymore. Dunno why I bother.

  • JWBananasEnglish
    22•1 year ago

    Let me see if I can explain it to you: Nerds don’t have a problem with women; they have a problem with change. I’ll give you an example: Nerds are upset at black stormtroopers in the new Star Wars movie. Do they have a problem with stormtroopers being black? No. They have a problem with you changing their definition of a stormtrooper. I’ll be a little clearer: If the first time you introduce oatmeal to a nerd it has maple syrup in it, it better have maple syrup every fucking time, or it’s not oatmeal.

    – Larry Wilmore, on the closed-mindedness of sci-fi fans.

    • @samus12345English
      5•1 year ago

      I take issue with the idea that being a nerd is the problem. Some people are just assholes, nerdy or not.

      • JWBananasEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I tend to think of the term as meaning “obsessive to a fault” (versus simply being passionate about something).

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      Oh my god that is the perfect explanation of the (often unintentionally / incidentally) bigoted opinions I hear around.