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Big puffy headphones make google glasses less nerdy? |
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Not less nerdy but more accepting and embracing of
the nerdiness as a disability issue, and disabilities as
the source of innovateness and ambition, which is a
bolder and less hidey kind of statement. |
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Why is being a nerd a disability? I thought it was pretty en vogue to be a nerd these days. Personally, I hate nerds. |
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I'm sorry that you hate nerds. Why is disability the
opposite of en vogue? |
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My apologies. Racism and lame attempts at humor
taken out. I am happy to give them up as they are a
false overlay over a serious issue. |
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>>nerdiness to be a disability |
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There are lots of ways to answer that question but
the first should be: why do you consider disability
to
be a problem? Disability is an identity for some and
it
is hard to have a negative value as an identity.
Especially for cognitive disabilities and other
language related issues like intercultural
communication between mainstream and Deaf
cultures, identity shouldn't be defined as group of
things one cannot do - like mountain biking, Tae
Kwan Do and especially procreating. |
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Some of the other ways have to do with the grey-
area and
hidden "disabilities" that didn't exist 20 years ago
but
that people increasingly view as commonalities,
sources of innovative opportunities, and motivators,
rather than a description of things that they cannot
do. |
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As for the racism around the Google Glass project, I
hate to get sucked into it, and it really is a long shot
and I hate to shoot myself in the foot, again, but,
Private Boney Bunney reporting for duty sir,
maybe it is an opportunity to start to address
whitemess as a disability. |
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And as for parties and friends and procreation, I
dont
know how to begin answering that. |
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That Venn diagraim is spot on. Nerds are no different from the beautiful people in that, they rely a little too much of what they're good at for their self esteem. |
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