Also I think it’s important to remember that in the late 70s and early 80s my and my friends would be LITERALLY beat up for being nerds. Like hospital visit beat up. It wasn’t like now. Nerds were the lowest. Useless. It’s hard to remeber that.
— Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) July 21, 2020
Exactly. It’s weird when women like Amanda Marcotte (who really, really hates nerds and geek culture) say things like, “Oh, you weren’t really oppressed, some people made fun of you in school, that’s nothing” and the other garbage they spew.
In school, these are the things that happened to me that were “nothing:”
- Routinely was sucker punched so hard that I had persistent headaches.
- Had my belongings stolen frequently.
- One time was hit so hard in the head by a bully with a large tree branch that I had trouble walking after.
- Had my nose severely broken.
- From roughly fifth to ninth grade was in a fight or punched nearly every day.
- Still have a small scar on my chin from some kid with a ring punching me in the face.
Of course in school, it would’ve been Amanda Marcotte perpetrating or cheering on this shit, so of course she and those of her ilk believe that what people like me faced in the 80s is just small potatoes.
I’m somewhat convinced my migraines were caused by these persistent beatings, too.