Single Men and Bachelors: Feminism is not for you.

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What is so geek about liking star wars or star trek?

[thesummerqueen]

It has to do with science fiction, as opposed to Gossip Girl, Bratz, or the myriad other mainstream TV shows that girls are "supposed" to watch these days.

Watching Star Wars made me wonder how a lightsaber could be built, which ended up making me look into lasers and all sorts of other technology when my peers were still pulling each other's hair and throwing rocks at passing cars.

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well I guess youre a 90s kid, my generations girls are different.

[thesummerqueen]

How so?

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mhmm just a feeling I have, cant back it up. sorry.
Just, a feeling I have when talking to women of my age - the goals they have set for themselves, their aspirations, their views.
Not a lot of cliche "barby dolls" running arround of my age. which is a good thing.

[thesummerqueen]

How old are you?

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my age is displayed on my profil,.... 22

[thesummerqueen]

You're only 5 years younger than me.

Here's the thing: I was stuck with a bunch of schmucks for most of my life. It could have been the school I went to, or the area I lived in, but I didn't find a place to "belong" until I moved down here to Charlotte, about 300 miles away from where I lived from the age of 4 until I was 22.

And even then, I didn't fall into a group of people whose aspirations and values matched mine until over a year ago when I fell in with the local atheist group. Then I met a whole bunch of people who were your age all the way up to 10 years older than me who loved to read and nerd out about things.

My point being that you could be a hell of a lot luckier than me at that age and surrounded by people who don't act like shitheads.

You see, here in America being smart is still looked down on, which is strange since we like to ride the coattails of people who are smart and get shit done. Or who are the figureheads of the people who get shit done. While there's a growing hipster trend to accept nerdery, since people are packaging it in more acceptable chunks to the members of the lowest common denominator tier, you still have people like Sarah Palin stirring up that mob of ingrates because the "elitists" are doing something to America...you know...being all smart and shit and having that programming on History Channel and Discovery that no one could understand...good thing we got rid of that!

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i was bullied throughout my entire childhood and had parents who ignored it, i had no other choice but to do things which you would call nerdy.
the thing is, no one calls them nerdy. what is nerdy? how can someone look down on education?
I accepted the fact that i was bullied because i noticed every generation had the same thing and therefor this must be something naturaly human, i wasn`t bullied for being good at school or having an interest in biology, it simply happend for no other reason other than that they thought they could get away with it and that they had joy in doing so.
knowlege is something which hightens your social status enormously here, and it is almoust impossible to get a job here without education.
maybe it is a cultural difference, knowlege is certainly not disregarded in my culture.

To bring it back to the original question. We have a woman as chancelor and that pritty much says a lot about our culture, being a woman and having a education simply is seen as something atractive here. I certainly dont want to enter a releation with someone who doesn`t know anything and i never have and never will.

[thesummerqueen]

All you have to do is look at our TV shows to see that women of education and intelligence are not sought after in America.