“He’s too cool to be a geek; he’s a decent basketball player; he knows how to dance; he dresses well,” Sarewitz said. “It’s too high a standard for geeks to possibly live up to.”

Once again, the ugliness and exclusionarianism of high-school rears it’s ugly head.

I have always been a geek, and always been athletic. The two are not mutually exclusionary, unless you’re stuck in highschool from the 60s remembering how you were stuffed into trash-cans for being different. Now you’re trying to stuff Obama The Funk-Soul Emperor is a verbal garbage can of your own making.

Grow up!

“It’s too high a standard for geeks to possibly live up to.” Really? I think maybe someone is just jealous of a more successful man. It’s not too much to live up to, it just requires dedication and a chromoly will.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 at 09:07.