How about compared to these two shows (and others from that time)?
Posted on 03/30/2018 11:20:15 AM PDT by C19fan
Two professors are warning in a new book that TV shows like The Big Bang Theory are emblematic of a worrying trend they call “toxic geek masculinity.”
The new book Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Politics was written by Bridget Blodgett, a professor at the University of Maryland, and Anastasia Salter, who teaches classes on digital culture at the University of Central Florida.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Being a liberal must be exhausting.
A show about the most beta males ever invented is too masculine for the rabid feminists...
This is just attack on the masculinity of success. In the Progressive world, you didn’t build that, you didn’t win that, you are nothing without the collective.
We are getting to the point that the only acceptable portrayal of a young, white straight male on TV will be either as the villain or a character who simply does everything that the female characters tell him to do.
Yes! I knew that if I lived long enough, I would see the day that nerds, geeks, dweebs and poindexters would become trendy. Our day has arrived! We will rule!
But also, comforting. You never have to think an original thought, or work something out for yourself.
How about compared to these two shows (and others from that time)?
How would you like it if you are compelled to spend every waking moment searching for things that trigger you? Particularly, when you are too f#$%ing stupid to understand any facts, so you you have to invent weird little "nuances" to explain it?
A new book that no one would ever have heard of if not for articles like this one.
It truly is the most masculine show on TV.
“...teaches classes on digital culture....”
Translation: That “teacher” would fail a fundamental Boolean algebra course, let alone things such as digital signal processing, pattern recognition, etc.
As such, we KNOW he/she/it has one of those degrees in “graduate nothingness” good for 1 cent off on a box of Cheerios. (No insult meant to Cheerios.)
I thought I would never see the day when geek was combined with masculinity. How the world has turned upside down. Perhaps as Beta or lower on the Greek lettering of male masculinity I should be happy.
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Crazy, right?
Of course, masculinity and geekiness are not mutually exclusive, though it’s pretty hard to express both at the same time.
The guys on TBBT are anything but masculine, though.
Wow.
I would think Big Bang would be the ultimate feminist fantasy land. The only non alpha female on the show is the Amy character. The only reason she exists is a comedic foil to illustration the obnoxiousness of the male Sheldon character.
FWIW, I have always told my daughters that geekiness is to be admired. A geek is simply someone who has attained professional level mastery of a subject without the establishment's defined credential trail. (Sphinx's definition.) Geeks are largely self-taught, or work their way up the ranks. They sometimes suffer from the autodidact's vulnerability to blindspots and occasional susceptibility to silly mistakes because they missed a trick as they were learning, but they often have outsized knowledge in their area of particular interest without the student loans and years of incarceration in the indoctrination mill. Geek is not synonymous with nerd.
Bkmrk.
Or gay but definitely not a gay villain because everyone knows gay men are never evil.
Yeah, it's hard to name another show where all the guys are in hetero relationships and one of them has fathered two children (despite wearing impossibly tight pants). Plus, there are the ever-present STEM topics (which have been raising the feminists' hackles for decades).
Now I'm wondering if the show's creators deliberately "hid" all of the above with a fog of geekiness.
Not content to destroy real men, the two man-haters move on to 3 extremely insecure males and one gay man trying to act normal. In the end, 2 of the 3 insecure males get married and are close enough to normal to be actually happy.
The fems hate that. Sorry, butches, but your book is already a failure.
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