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They're apparently making a new reality show about "Nerd Girls". It's going to be about the unconventional love lives of a bunch of university engineering chicks. Except that the girls that they picked were clearly not nerdy at all. Engineering majors they may have been, but they weren't ~nerdy~. They seemed quite together and girly and confident and socially capable.
A reality show about *real* nerd girls, the kind pulled out of anime clubs and science bowls, that's what I would like to see. This isn't going to do anything but create a lot of false perceptions. Granted, I guess you can't expect more from a reality show. Still, it disappoints me that only the slickest, most diva-tastic women are the ones that get the spotlight, even when they are flaunting the "nerdiest" sides of their nature.
Totally unrelated, but I took out my Japanese textbook out today, and reviewed all of the first semester stuff on a whim. It was refreshing, and enjoyable. I really don't know how I feel about Japanese. Sometimes I feel like it's just annoying and I have no affinity for it...but other times it's just...really fun. I definitely have SOME relationship with it, which is annoying because I can't figure it out.
...Also, I'm probably one of the few people on Earth (a select few on my flist being others) who can have an "it's complicated" relationship with a LANGUAGE.
...That said, I'm pretty sure my relationship with foreign language in general is more complicated still. Aheh.
A reality show about *real* nerd girls, the kind pulled out of anime clubs and science bowls, that's what I would like to see. This isn't going to do anything but create a lot of false perceptions. Granted, I guess you can't expect more from a reality show. Still, it disappoints me that only the slickest, most diva-tastic women are the ones that get the spotlight, even when they are flaunting the "nerdiest" sides of their nature.
Totally unrelated, but I took out my Japanese textbook out today, and reviewed all of the first semester stuff on a whim. It was refreshing, and enjoyable. I really don't know how I feel about Japanese. Sometimes I feel like it's just annoying and I have no affinity for it...but other times it's just...really fun. I definitely have SOME relationship with it, which is annoying because I can't figure it out.
...Also, I'm probably one of the few people on Earth (a select few on my flist being others) who can have an "it's complicated" relationship with a LANGUAGE.
...That said, I'm pretty sure my relationship with foreign language in general is more complicated still. Aheh.
