Is it me or has being a nerd become trendy?

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We played outside when I was a kid. Played hard–sports, climbed trees, always running. We’d ride our Stingray bikes and spit to show how tough we were. Chewed Hot Tamales candies and spit “blood.” Threw dirt clods and tried to smoke cigarettes and gagged. If we had to stay inside we played with slot cars, played board games–competitively–and read Hardy Boys, other boy books. Played Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots or Electric Football. Made forts, roughhoused and got yelled at.

Now all that is part of “toxic masculinity.” The push is on to make boys gentler, more feminine. Not gonna happen, though, for the most part. I work with kids and see the same gender differences (and there’s only two) as always. Boys are resilient and mostly impervious to the girlification efforts of the left.

All the social engineers will succeed in is making some boys more confused. Some of these will snap when they reach their teens or young adulthood, maybe kill a bunch of people. Definitely be “medicated.”

When I was a kid guns were far more freely available than they are now. It was part of becoming a man to shoot, safely and responsibly. How many mass murders were there? Zero. Nobody had heard of ADHD, autism, psychotropic meds, etc. No “triggering” or “safe spaces,” no being urged to question your “gender identity.” Everybody followed baseball.
 
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I was picked on for being a nerd back in about 1989-97 about. like having glue poured on my head,hearing people saying dragons are lame and such and being told nerds will never make it.
 
That really happened? Sounds like the stuff of teenage sitcoms.
 
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I was memorizing Shakespeare in junior high, and into astronomy. But I was into girls too. And did all that other stuff. In high school I hung out with some brainy kids. But I did high risk stuff like hitchhiking and spelunking. Point is, some people who seem “nerdy” because they’re smart have other friends acets to their character that are very “un-nerdy.”
 
Well i brought in some Dragonlance books and i got bullied for it,and was also brought in Dragon magazines,way back when it was TSR and not WOTC.
 
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Sounds like a completely different era. No one got bullied for being a nerd when I went to high school 2011-2015.
 
I remember some girls in gym class in junior high in the early 90’s. Their nickname for me was Urkel.

You definitely got bullied for being smart, or liking things that weren’t mainstream at the time.

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I remember being called that as well and some messed up my last name by putting nerd in front of it.
 
I think more-so the movies. The movies are epic, something a larger audience can enjoy without necessarily being into the fantasy genre.
 
Haha, no claims to early adaptation here!

I was the third generation on computers in my family… my grandfather was in computers in the 50’s, and my father had his stories of punch cards and the mainframe he used in the 70’s.

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