http://geekfeminism.org/2010/01/17/on-geekitude-hierarchy-and-being-a-snob/ Women, feminism, and geek culture Sun, 20 May 2012 08:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://geekfeminism.org/2010/01/17/on-geekitude-hierarchy-and-being-a-snob/comment-page-1/#comment-3551 lsblakk Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2066#comment-3551 Oh my god. I feel like you've just exposed the dynamic I experience on a regular basis with my exceptionally smart and enthusiastic workmates. This "it's more complicated than you thought" smugness comes up a LOT on every topic from beer-making to rescue efforts in Haiti. It's incredibly frustrating to me because I was that smug person at times too when I was in a less technical crowd but now I am in a whole new pond, surrounded by engineers who love to be right and who act as though they are just pointing out the scientific facts while really I can tell that under it all is that similar smugness of being more right or more geeky than the person they have now outdone. I do wish it came across more as sharing then squashing sometimes. What I take away from this though is that I can only change my own behaviour and I will do my best to recall this post the next time I am looking down on someone for not knowing as much as I do about a topic. Oh my god. I feel like you’ve just exposed the dynamic I experience on a regular basis with my exceptionally smart and enthusiastic workmates. This “it’s more complicated than you thought” smugness comes up a LOT on every topic from beer-making to rescue efforts in Haiti. It’s incredibly frustrating to me because I was that smug person at times too when I was in a less technical crowd but now I am in a whole new pond, surrounded by engineers who love to be right and who act as though they are just pointing out the scientific facts while really I can tell that under it all is that similar smugness of being more right or more geeky than the person they have now outdone. I do wish it came across more as sharing then squashing sometimes. What I take away from this though is that I can only change my own behaviour and I will do my best to recall this post the next time I am looking down on someone for not knowing as much as I do about a topic.

]]> http://geekfeminism.org/2010/01/17/on-geekitude-hierarchy-and-being-a-snob/comment-page-1/#comment-3541 Restructure! Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:05:30 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2066#comment-3541 The problem with most people is that they think that solving problems in domains they know nothing about must be simple, so they deserve to be shot down and corrected. The problem with most people is that they think that solving problems in domains they know nothing about must be simple, so they deserve to be shot down and corrected.

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