I have another post up at GMP, one that long-time readers might recognize: “How Revenge Of The Nerds Ruined My Life”. Go read it, it’s fun.
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I never understood that false choice, myself. Growing up, I was both a jock and a nerd; I played football, baseball (well, until I seriously sprained my ankle one season and grew averse to running on bases that stuck up out of the ground), hunted, did weight lifting, took chemistry and physics, AP classes, did amateur astronomy, read a lot, built computers and played video games. I pretty much defied either stereotype. I also wonder if my school was different than most others in not enforcing the boundaries between the two cliques. My “jock” friends accepted my just as much… Read more »
I am a nerd; and proud of it, thank you very much, tee,hee,hee!
Good article! Have you heard about the pastor Mark Driscoll? I can not help but see the majority of his views, if not all of them, as damning to masculine and feminine identity. And it saddens me that it seems his popularity is only gaining.