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Originally Posted by Aylmer
I meant no offence. Just out of curiosity, what does it represent?
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It represents an open attack on people of often high intelligence, but awkward social skills and fashion sense.
In my lifetime I have seen how other groups visible in our society have been targeted as the but of jokes or for not being worthy of equal treatment. In fact pretty much any minority starting with women and moving to visible minorities, gays, etc. were once subject to this but no longer are. Few would make a "little moron joke" today, or a sexist or homophobic one. So why do we still accept this for other groups including the one pictured above.
Just as Queer Nation took back words and stereotypes associated with homosexuality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaimed_word I feel it is long past the time to do the same for this other identifiable group of which to some measure I am a member. The Revenge of the Nerds movies were a start, and while I refuse to watch any television programming with a laugh track, the Big Bang Theorey may be achieving some net gains despite its blatant stereotyping.
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