We are all nerds now

[Lush]

One may object to stereotyping, labeling, put-downs, etc. One can even refuse to engage in the activities as payback to those who mistreat or mis-label or any-label them. That, however, will not keep others from labeling you. Get used to it.

One can learn to live with these things, but to stop protesting them? Never. This is why I go to the library in a mini.

I, for one, am intrigued by Lush's term 'vapid' and hereby label everyone else on this thread as VAPID. There is a label that will never die in my book!

Oh, but I didn't invent it.

And Lush, you are right, in that The Intelligent go for looks--if they can get them.

I, for one, go for looks because I don't want my future children to curse me for polluting my bloodline and leaving them without the advantages that good looks have to offer. Though the initial screening usually hints at great disappointment ahead, and in this, I have rallied my mind to go to war with biology. Hardy har har.

(Then again, Sartre was painful to look at, and we can't even begin to count all the women he got, nevermind his great contributions to world culture.)

And, speaking totally hypothetically, if I was interested in you, I would be looking at your bookshelf, and if I didn't find the right stuff there, I would quickly drop you as VAPID. (Regardless of my opinion of your good looks.)

Well, there's the LotR and Bible, but then again there's The Delta of Venus and my friends Nabokov and Joyce (both of whom were once banned for being scandalous).

Sometimes a glance at my bookshelf confuses people. This is when I tell them to drop their silly stereotypes (if only we could do that as easily as, say, dropping our pants).

Mine is a foolishly idealistic quest, but at the very least, it grants me an aura of moral superiority and I recommend it highly to every thinking person, including all the members of this board, who have all, at one time or another, felt that they were being judged on sadly superficial terms. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:07 PM January 02, 2004: Message edited by: Lush ]