From: Rich Graves <rich@c2.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:43:48 +0800
To: Peter Trei <trei@process.com>
Subject: Re: Nerds, Dykes, Niggers, Dweebs, Fags, Bimbos, and Geeks
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I missed the original, but it appears that Peter Trei once claimed that Tim
May wrote:

> > >People with pride in themselves and what they do can make their detractors
> > >eat their insults.  We should make it clear that "nerd," "dweeb," "geek,"
> > >"jerk," etc. are where the money is.  We should turn them into terms of
> > >pride in what we are and what we do.
>  
> > Maybe it's a generational thing (though Bill is as old as me, I think), but
> > terms of insult are just that. The biggest users seem to be clueless
> > journalists, like blonde bimbette Sue Hutchinson of the "S.J. Mercury
> > News," who writes repeatedly of "nerdfests," and "geek conventions." (Hey,
> > maybe womyn need to reclaim the terms "bimbo" and "airhead"?)

Actually, I know Sue, and I believe she has. She's got a rather healthy
sense of humor, thank you, "for a womyn."

I don't think it's a generational thing, because lord (tm) knows that there
are members of my generation with sticks firmly up their asses, too. 

- -rich
 nerd

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