Why claiming that all male nerds are privileged could be dangerous

Ultramegasaurus · 2015-06-06T13:17:12+00:00

Feminists attack "nerd" domains because they're easy targets, because they hate unattractive men and because much money's involved.

bertreapot · 2015-06-06T14:36:19+00:00

it's a bit ironic, women are successful at attacking weaker men as having "privilege," because these men don't have the power or social skills to defend themselves. they've been raised to be feminists and to be accommodating to women, and this is the thanks they get.

yes a lot of rich people at the top are white men, that doesn't trickle down to every white man has power and wealth. the daughters of these rich men (who subsequently go to college and accuse male classmates of being privileged) have a lot more power than a guy from an average family who is nerdy and smart, yet lacks social graces, or the wherewithall to defend himself against hostile, catty radfems

Blutarg · 2015-06-06T15:38:46+00:00

Because nerds are a soft target. Since the nerd community is quiet resilient to attacks, thanks to the incessant bullying throughout adolescence they don't give a shit about this.

Feminists don't care about "weak" men either. Virgin neck beard nerd is a go to insult for them and for years they used it smoothly.

I have immense respect for the American nerd community for several reasons( mostly because they're fucking smart and they revolutionised the internet).

Which is why seeing the backlash,- from gamergate to popular blogs,- that feminists get makes me so happy. And this kills feminists, look at how gawker is gasping for attention now? Look at how professional victims are crying harassment and advocating censorship?

It's incredibly beautiful when the weaker, oppressed group strikes back.

At least on the internet, feminism don't stand a chance before these guys. They've seen the worst.

AtomicBLB · 2015-06-06T17:50:11+00:00

I was bullied nearly everyday of my childhood into my teens. I was shunned and mocked by girls because I didn't develop social skills until I was an adult because no one would treat me like a person until then. Then these angry Feminists have the gall to tell me that I'm privileged and my problems are taken seriously because I am male.

You know what I've seen during that time? I've seen female only grants for schools, favouritism in said schools, favouritism in the jobs I have worked, in their problems being addressed, in a great many social situations. I've seen multiple men jump, like savages, to a woman's side at the hint of aggression towards her. At her unquestioned accusation no matter if it holds true or not. Then these same women come into my virtual world where I've held onto what little self esteem I had for so long and they attack me and keep saying I'm the problem.

So, when and where is all this supposed privilege that I have? Aside from white privilege, I don't have any as a man, and if I do, well I'd like to start seeing the positive results from it.

SlashSero · 2015-06-06T16:36:45+00:00

Myself being relentlessly mentally and physically abused for years by both boys and girls just for being intelligent and good natured, almost driven to suicide while working hard on my own future. I persisted through all of it and instead of appreciation and compassion I see people like me getting harassed again and again. No, I am not some spoiled brat that gets 'triggered' by seeing others treated the way I have been and have almost driven me to suicide. I stand up and say something about it. I am sick of it and I am truly sorry for having this 'privilege'.

ConfirmedCynic · 2015-06-06T16:46:59+00:00

And as an MIT professor, he is very privileged

Just what are the MIT professor's "privileges" anyhow? Pay? Recognition in his field? A certain respect for his position?

Wouldn't you say he's earned these by being smart and driven enough to become a professor at MIT??

Or do feminists just honestly believe he got there by treading on women and black people, that everyone just moves aside for him on the sidewalk and that he always sits in the front row at a theater, or something?

What does "privilege" mean when spoken by a feminist anyhow? Sounds like code for "you owe me something because you're successful".

TheRedThrowAwayPill · 2015-06-06T15:45:21+00:00

GamerGate worked because the video game industry gets its money from video game players. It doesn't get barely shit from online YouTube feminazis

Geeks and nerds can become high income earners later in life. They would make excellent providers and ideal fathers. Indeed they are amongst the ones helping greatly to keep up society by procreation and paying taxes and partaking in the economy.

If feminazis even burn down this bridge .... you're gonna have a bad time.

notIsugarpie · 2015-06-06T17:09:59+00:00

I don't think you should be able to talk about geeks unless you are one, and I are one (as Jeff Foxworthy once said).

Here's my bottom line:

Was I bullied as a kid? Sometimes. Did pretty girls make me do their homework for them? Yeah. Was that the only reason why they would talk to me? Yeah. Was I socially ostracized as a kid? Yep. Did I have any friends? A couple, but not many, and I never got invited anywhere if other people could help it. Did I get turned down by every girl I asked out? Yes. Did people think I was nice? Yeah. Did I have interests and hobbies that I wouldn't dare mention in public? Yeah, this was before reading comics was cool, and when it was seen as a form of "Peter Pan" syndrome, so my hobby was frowned upon. This was also before video games were cool.

A few weeks ago, I saw my sister, who spent years trying to get me to dump my entire comic book collection, surfing the net for news about the new Avengers movie. Its cool now, it wasn't 25 years ago when I started reading comics and when no one else was. When she found out I had a copy of man out of time #1 (first winter soldier) in my collection, she gasped, and that was a book she tried to get me to sell, or give away, before she saw the movie. You can't explain why its important to someone who doesn't give a shit.

I saw my other sister playing video games with her friend a year ago, and they were playing the new Zelda game, because video games are cool now. I remember, as a kid, playing the first Legend of Zelda, in the gold catridge, on my NES. I also remember playing the first Super Mario Bros, the first final fantasy and the first sonic the hedgehog. Only kids like me did that back in the eighties and early nineties. Back then, there were a few gamers, here and there, but it wasn't until the internet really took off that gamer culture became a thing.

During that time, growing up, I would call myself privileged, in the sense that I grew up relatively well off, from a stable two parent home, where my dad was the bad cop and my mom was the good cop. I know most people in this world have it worse than I do. I'm very self aware of what privilege means, to me, it doesn't mean that you don't have problems, and it doesn't mean that you feel sorry for those who have bigger problems than you do (most people's problems are self-inflicted ones, just because you have more troubles than another person doesn't mean you have less privilege)

Privilege is about what the world gives you for no other reason than existing. Its about the situation you're thrown into from birth, and it has nothing to do with what you did with those advantages. Alexander the Great was extremely privileged, he was born the son of King Phillip the second, and was taught by Aristotle as a child. However, he used those advantages to conquer the known world. Every other person, in human history, who had Alexander the Great's privilege didn't do anything close to what he did with his. Many people, who start life off with more than I have, haven't accomplished what I have. Many people who start life off with a lot less accomplish far more. At the end of the day, privilege is what you start with, we all encounter set-backs and road-blocks, we all do dumb things and suffer self-inflicted wounds. Some of us learn and grow, others do not.

Women are born with privilege, just because having a vagina is more valuable, biologically, than having a penis is. Cock is plentiful, and easy to get, relative to pussy, so pussy has a higher default marginal value. Beautiful women, regardless of what other things they have at the start of life, have privilege in a way that only elite athletes have it: they will get chance after chance after chance in life, and athletes have to work for their extra chances, women just need to be pretty. There is no group of people on earth, as an aggregate, except for the wealthy, who have more privilege than the top 50% of women on the attractiveness scale. I make an upper middle class living, so I have money to burn, and I know I'm not as privileged as the hot, young, chick who works at my local ice cream palor. She will get way more chances than I will in life, I mess up once and its over, she can keep messing up and another chance will come.

Peter_Principle_ · 2015-06-06T18:59:41+00:00

“This is why Silicon Valley is fucked up. Because it’s built and run by some of the most privileged people in the world who are convinced that they are among the least.”

Hey, Marcotte and Penny, guess what? New rule: If you had a kid with your last boyfriend, you will work at a job that makes the most money you are capable of making. You will give at least 25% of your income to him (and 25% to the courts). He will be the custodial parent. You will pay that 25% regardless if your income goes down or disappears. You will pay more if your income goes up. You will do these things, or you will go to prison.

How I wish I could drop this rule on these oblivious cunts today, just to see their howls of outrage. Then I would think about how men have been forced to deal with this for the past 30 years, and I would laugh.

2015-06-06T16:57:51+00:00

For those who didn't read the vile response by Amanda Marcotte (who's definitely too stupid, like most feminists, to appreciate Dr. Aaronson's work and is too eager to mock him and call him a nerd as many times as possible) :

She was basically denying any adversity men would face by the gender roles which expects men to approach women. And then whined about how SA affects women! The whiteknights/fakes in the comments section were basically saying it's the responsibility of a man to bend to the gender norms which favor women.

So much for feminist hypocrisy. These slimes are too blind by their bitterness to see their blatant stupidity..and the irony of this pathetic woman linking to rational wiki. eww.

romulusnr · 2015-06-06T23:48:46+00:00

It's retarded. If anything nerdy men should be easy allies. Instead they become easy targets. Easy scapegoats. All evil of mankind is projected upon them. You'd think they were frat boy jock jarheads instead of nerds, the way vitriol is expended on them. It does nothing to stop rape culture, either, nor does it do anything to improve gender equality or disrupt gender norms -- if anything, it reinforces them.

augustfell · 2015-06-06T23:41:52+00:00

More SJW rhetorical judo:

Boys drop out of school? Privilege. Proof: Insert names of some business leaders.
Boys with learning and emotional disabilities? Privilege. Proof: Insert names of some geniuses.
Men go to jail. Privilege. Proof: Insert names of some male civic leaders.
Men commit suicide. Privilege. Proof: Insert names some male artists and musicians.

Basically, issue that might garner some compassion from a normal human being is reinterpreted as something to feel envious and resentful about.

practeerts · 2015-06-06T12:57:14+00:00

I just don't see the point in this one other than one perceived victim saying "hey we're bigger victims!"

Edit: I was talking about the feminists saying "hey look at us more."

Unenjoyed · 2015-06-06T23:30:20+00:00

Because it's bigoted at heart?

redditorriot · 2015-06-07T06:38:53+00:00

I thought AVFM links were autobanned by Reddit now?

Title	Why claiming that all male nerds are privileged could be dangerous
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Date	June 6, 2015 11:51 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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