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Oct 10, 2020

okay so this thing. this nerds vs. jocks thing. where does it come from? i picked it up from TV and movies and shit. who was patient zero? were a bunch of filmmakers bullied a lot in high school? did their bullies have dads who were WWII or vietnam vets or something?

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Adam Fitchett

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· Oct 10, 2020

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Yeh I had a similar attitude due to a kind of aesthetic opposition to jockishness

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 11, 2020

my own actual experience fwiw is that every jock i knew in high school was a nice guy who thought i was funny although i was also secretly jealous of them for being hotter than me they really liked me when i joined choir and they found out i could sing

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@QiaochuYuan

anime is cool because there just isn't a nerd / jock dichotomy. it's more of like a... hmm winner / loser thing? the people on top are just good at everything. they have the highest grades *and* are the best at sports *and* run clubs or the student council or w/e

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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*and* they have amazing tits *and* incredible super-strength that allows them to tear down the walls of the school when necessary *and* they're secretly half-vampires or whatever

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one lunch man kinda differentiates i find most snime is either a sports anime or slice of life, you dont see a lot of crossover like, ping pong is nerdy... at a loss here

Critter

@BecomingCritter

Oct 11, 2020

sakamoto desu ga? i forget if its in saiki k

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I read something about how in the American adaptation of Death Note, they made Light a nerdy outcast, even though in the original he's popular at school, because Japan doesn't have the "unpopular nerd" trope.

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Tatawake Kuno from Ranma?

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Maybe the lack of Christian dualism - the jock is the body the nerd is the mind.