I’ve been out with plenty of girls who loved music and could tell their House from their Garage and their Orange Juice from their Jam — I even married one — but I’ve never met one who rose to the obsessive level of nerdy music anorak that men do. The same with films, comics, and sport.
I know they exist. I have occasionally seen a girl in a second-hand record shop intently digging through the boxes, and every man in the place will be staring at her as if they’ve spotted some rare bird — because they have (and probably wish she could be their girlfriend). But usually, whatever gene it is that turns men into anal trainspotters who can name every Clash b-side, women don’t have it.
Obviously this is a sweeping generalization and I don’t intend to be sexist in any way. It’s a compliment really, High Fidelity couldn’t have been written about a woman because they just aren’t that sad and ridiculous.
The young lady above should be able to tell Mike that this is a classic dance track from 1984. Then she should break up with him.
Download: Music Is The Answer – Colonel Abrams (mp3)
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It’s a sort of semi-autism I think, and autism is much more common in boys
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generalising, largely inaccurate and slightly offensive
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Wait until you read my next post about how men are terrible at cooking.
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Extreme generalization. I’m a 20-year-old woman and I know my b-sides. Proud of it too.
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I just do not understand why people are so intent on ranking levels of ‘nerdiness’ or fanaticism. The point of liking things, when it comes down to it, is just that- to like them. The very concept of considering some people’s way of liking things to be somehow better than others is entirely ridiculous.
As a woman in my 20’s, I am sick and tired of having men question my dedication to being passionate about certain things, or strip the value away from my passion towards these things, simply because I do not know every single detail about them. If I want to memorize every character’s name, age, family tree, and backstory from a fantasy series, if I want to read every Spiderman comic ever published, if the way that I go about liking something is by educating myself about it, then that’s what I’m going to do. But if I want to listen to one song or watch games when they’re on the television or just casually like something, then – guess what – that’s what I’m going to f**king do. And I do not need the author of this article or any other man to validate me liking something- I can do that myself.
So stop quizzing me on how many names of football players I know, stop examining my halloween costumes as if you know there’s a mistake somewhere, stop informing me in an infuriatingly obnoxious voice that women (every woman, every single woman in the entire world) simply do not have the capacity to be as passionate about something as men do, and stop, please, for the love of god, stop telling me that I know nothing about music simply because I have no freaking clue what a b-side is.
Oh, and if you don’t stop- good luck getting laid tomorrow night.
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I wasn’t ‘ranking’ anyone nor questioning your knowledge about anything, you’re angry about something I didn’t even say. Personally I’m way beyond the age where I care that much about the trivial details of music or movies or comics anymore, and I find it sad that there are men out there who get off on that kind of trivia dick-measuring.
If anything I was saying that women are better than men because they don’t think that shit is important. Yes, it’s a generalization and there are girls out there who can out-nerd any man, but it is still mostly a habit of men.
Has this just been linked somewhere?
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Yep. It’s been retweeted by Wil Wheaton’s tumblr. http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/
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Thanks.
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Curious to know what the original source comic was, thanks!
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Don’t know I’m afraid. Though the art looks Marvel-like and the girl has a vague resemblance to Mary Jane Watson so the artist could be John Romita.
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