05 Dec 2013, 4:22 pm
pokerface wrote:
I live in Holland but as I mentioned before on this forum, I can receive a lot of different channels, including the BBC. About a week ago I was watching the talkshow Graham Norton. This time the guests were two actors who both starred as Doctor Who and a brittish comedian who looks like a ventriloquist doll. At the end of the program some people of the audience or some people who volunteer for that part of the show, I don't exactly know how it works, take place in a red chair (one by one) to tell a funny story or to ask the celebrities a couple of questions. This time all of the people who took place in the red chair were Doctor Who fans and ofcourse they wanted to ask some questions about the series. These guys were apparently perceived as nerds by both Graham Norton and his guests, probably because the guys in question were wearing glasses or something. As soon as the first guy took place on the red chair the prejudiced and annoying comments started. I shall give one example out of many to clarify myself. The brittish comedian obviously found it necessary and funny to ask one of these guys if he knew what if felt like to touch a girl. This weird comment had nothing to do with the subject and the typical question a so called "normal" person would ask a nerdy guy who may have a couple of asperger traits. Annoying and inappropriate. The two actors were just as bad as the comedian. A lot of people seem to think that most Doctor Who fans are nerds with aspergers which is a prejudice in itself. I do have aspergers and I have never been interested in Doctor Who. 
People who don't live in the UK who have never seen that show probably haven't got a clue what I am talking about when I am mentioning the red chair. My apologies for that. I have nothing against Graham Norton by the way, he can display a witty sense of humor when he is at his best.
The whole point of my story is that I find it insulting and also quite cruel that folks who appear on tv as well as people in everyday life find it necessary to make fun of nerds and people with aspergers. I think it's out of the vague fear they may resemble us in one way or another. Maybe we show them aspects about themselves they are in denial about. I do wish they would shut up though ! Making fun at the cost of others is kind of cheap in the end isn't it?
People who don't live in the UK who have never seen that show probably haven't got a clue what I am talking about when I am mentioning the red chair. My apologies for that. I have nothing against Graham Norton by the way, he can display a witty sense of humor when he is at his best.
The whole point of my story is that I find it insulting and also quite cruel that folks who appear on tv as well as people in everyday life find it necessary to make fun of nerds and people with aspergers. I think it's out of the vague fear they may resemble us in one way or another. Maybe we show them aspects about themselves they are in denial about. I do wish they would shut up though ! Making fun at the cost of others is kind of cheap in the end isn't it?
That is certainly true. It's all about social dominance. They usualy have the muscles. We usualy have the brains. An oversimplification, obviously, but it's basicaly this duality.
It is possible that the leadership, in pre-civilized human societies, was not totalitarian: you have the tribe leader and you have the tribe shaman. It is possible that these are the roles fulfiled by jocks vs nerds these days _ in "disguise". The shaman is a potential challenger of the leader's authority. Therefore, the leader feels the need to tell who's the boss.
Of course this is just an observation, but maybe it's worth thinking about it.
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