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but to be serious nerd identity rejected the aesthetic trappings of American hypermasculinity but kept all its values
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and now that the culture at large is starting to move past those values you have a revanchist fringe among nerds
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also since SF/superheroes/fantasy are in vogue there's no pretext to pretend "nerd culture" is a subcultural identity
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so since they can't create identity through these cultural products they turn to those values of toxic masculinity
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