Are Nerds Taking Back Hollywood?
Mack Rawden over at Cinema Blend talks up the recurring theme of nerds in teen films. While a ubiquitous presence from day one, we seem to be in a resurgence of nerd culture lately.
And Mr. Rawden has seem to have had enough. Rawden bemoans movies that glorify the underdog as something of an annoying underachiever and someone who deserves our scorn. The jocks who mercilessly torment the nerds and abuse them for four years? They're the real stars.
Is anyone else sick of dweeb protagonists complaining about getting hit with dodge balls? I am. Picking off the fat kid isn't even mean--it's Natural Selection, motherfuckers.
Now I'm not going to go off on a rant about how odd it is for a grown man to be justifying throwing dodgeballs at an overweight kid, but what in Mr. Rawden's past has brought him to this point of delusion?
Why is it that every single goddamn high school movie now is about unathletic, unpopular, undesirables weaseling their way into a roll in the hay with the most beautiful girl at school? That's not even an admirable goal. Most of the cheerleader types are vapid vortexes of slutiness and stupid opinions.
Okay, now it's fairly obvious he's just jealous and over compensating. It would seem that perhaps Mr. Rawden was in fact counted among the nerd populace and is now rebelling as best as he can by condemning his roots.
If he doesn't want to be associated with nerd culture, he should probably not be writing for a movie blog.
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