The Science of Gawker's Nerd Baiting

YetAnotherCommenter · 2013-10-05T00:23:39+00:00

This is an important topic for MR, I think. Male nerds, by definition, transgress traditional masculinity (since traditional manliness is all about physical strength and competence). Nerd bashing is thus gender policing.

Gawker, as we all know, is SJW journalism. Jezebel is just the start - they have posted articles on Kotaku basically about how nerds need to learn about "male privilege" (even though nerdy men actually show how a lot of so-called "male privilege" is really "real man" privilege). Hell, they've ran a Privilege Tournament... a LITERAL Oppression Olympics.

And yet they openly, brazenly, gleefully engage in picking on male nerds.

Nerdiness in women is seen as cute/adorable/endearing, or as a "you go girl" exercise in forcing one's way into a "boy's club" (I think there is one exception though - slash fangirls are typically treated as having a 'dirty' hobby which needs to be hidden away - but otherwise, female nerdiness is considered adorable and cute... or even hot in some respects (look at Bayonetta - her glasses were intended to make her look more intelligent)).

Nerdiness in men is seen as being immature and childish and symptomatic of weakness and hence "not-real-manhood." Indeed, even nerd culture has internalized this self-loathing... the Forbes article says that being a nerd is 'more acceptable' because its now okay to like video games and superheroes... but the 'blockbuster' video games these days are becoming ever more like action films and are targeted towards the kinds of people that used to beat up video game players for being too nerdy... and superheroes, well, I wrote about the self-loathing-nerd-complex and its influence on Superhero films in my previous article on /r/Masculism.

Nerdiness is like bisexuality - men socially lose from it, women socially gain from it.

Gawker's nerd baiting is gender policing. And they're happy to make money from it while lecturing us about how privileged we all are.

That said, I am not surprised when today's feminists gender police men. Today's feminism no longer represents a rebellion against the gender system but rather an attempt to reformat it to serve the interests of women; to reinforce how women can shame, harass and manipulate men emotionally in order to enlist their agency in their service.

Title	The Science of Gawker's Nerd Baiting
Author	blueoak9
Upvotes	12
Comments	2
Date	October 4, 2013 4:48 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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