From—where else?—the comments section of a post on a skiffy blog (tor.com in this case, but anywhere would do):
My sister and her husband tend toward the notion that I need to be working in some mundane cubical farm, exercising what they deem to be my marginal creativity in the capacity of a paper pusher in order to gain financial stability--despite our current financial stability at a drastically lower income than theirs. What they don't seem to realize is that I have been fostering a lifestyle of creativity that has not now, nor has it ever, centered on material wealth or ownership in the short 27 years that I have been alive. In addition to the sterotype of the gamer slob is that of the broke gamer slob who lives with their parents. The image here is of a fat man playing games in his mother's basement. This stereotype will only be iradicated when men and women of material means and hygene speak up and become proud of their gamer status. We are relegated to the "freak" gamer classification because clean, employed people don't want to be associated with fat mysoginists in popular--and counter-culture--gaming communities.
Truth or parody? Who knows? Either way—Let Us Put an End to Geek Pride.
My sister and her husband tend toward the notion that I need to be working in some mundane cubical farm, exercising what they deem to be my marginal creativity in the capacity of a paper pusher in order to gain financial stability--despite our current financial stability at a drastically lower income than theirs. What they don't seem to realize is that I have been fostering a lifestyle of creativity that has not now, nor has it ever, centered on material wealth or ownership in the short 27 years that I have been alive. In addition to the sterotype of the gamer slob is that of the broke gamer slob who lives with their parents. The image here is of a fat man playing games in his mother's basement. This stereotype will only be iradicated when men and women of material means and hygene speak up and become proud of their gamer status. We are relegated to the "freak" gamer classification because clean, employed people don't want to be associated with fat mysoginists in popular--and counter-culture--gaming communities.
Truth or parody? Who knows? Either way—Let Us Put an End to Geek Pride.