"Nerds" Book Report
Aug. 24th, 2008 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieI want to summarize. This, like so many books out there, would have been better as a 7-page essay.
One, don't deliberately expose young children (less than 10) to the nerd stereotype. In general, they will treat it like the "baby" stereotype, and use it to tease someone less mature or who gets along with their parents well.
Between 10 and 13 or 14, children will finally get the non-sexually attractive part of the stereotype and many of those in the middle will punt their math/science classes to avoid the stereotype.
Around 14 or 15, children will be more comfortable in their own skin and treat the stereotype with some irony/sarcasm/or embrace it for its power. That is when the difference between nerd and geek can actually have some meaning.
Two, the show "Beauty and the Geek" needs to be taken off the air.
Three, "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" needs to be only assigned in late high school, or saved for college. It is typically assigned to pre-teens and is corrosive in its depiction of Ichabod Crane as the beginning of the nerd stereotype.
One, don't deliberately expose young children (less than 10) to the nerd stereotype. In general, they will treat it like the "baby" stereotype, and use it to tease someone less mature or who gets along with their parents well.
Between 10 and 13 or 14, children will finally get the non-sexually attractive part of the stereotype and many of those in the middle will punt their math/science classes to avoid the stereotype.
Around 14 or 15, children will be more comfortable in their own skin and treat the stereotype with some irony/sarcasm/or embrace it for its power. That is when the difference between nerd and geek can actually have some meaning.
Two, the show "Beauty and the Geek" needs to be taken off the air.
Three, "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" needs to be only assigned in late high school, or saved for college. It is typically assigned to pre-teens and is corrosive in its depiction of Ichabod Crane as the beginning of the nerd stereotype.
