One of the really interesting things about the Salem Witch trials is that the accusers were all young women. Similarly, the insult of "weird" against JD Vance is mostly coming from young women. He gives them the "ick." "Weirdness" is a gendered phenomenon, and we often underestimate how much men are followers and women are leaders in defining social spaces.
Sure, the gregarious theater kid may be more popular than the football player but that's just a change in the relative status of theater and football. But the socially skilled, friendly and decently looking/groomed have never been the ones subject to hardcore bullying. That has always targeted those who stick out -- mostly those who have trouble grasping social subtexts, find it difficult to engage in social lieing/preference falsification most people do naturally or otherwise have low social/emotional skill.
Some people grow out of being weird some don't but often have quite good lives (Bill Gates and Scott Aaronson qualify) but they aren't the people running the world or taking revenge. The weird people go become effective altruists or rationalists. Even Gates for all his billions is obviously not able to really relate to most people and isn't going to be comfortable schmoozing or wielding power in the way it is usually done.
Unsurprisingly, even when the things like tech that was inspired by and developed by the weird, become more important those with great social and interpersonal skills try to claim association or dominance. But the weird still get left on the outside because real weirdness is a genuine barrier to the kind of social networking necessary to form the kind of networks you complain about.
Indeed, it's the weird who are usually the ones who get cancelled. People who are just not in the tribe or enemies of it either are beyond it's reach or know not to fuck themselves. It's the people who can't play the social game as well and get confused into thinking that they should take things at face value and actually tell the truth about certain things etc..
Yeah, this author doesn’t seem to have actually bothered to verify their claims on weirdness, and seems to assume that because Bill Gates is successful, people like him now have an easier time. They don’t - the people being severely bullied are the exact same people as before, it’s just now they don’t have ‘being gay/having computer science skills/liking Marvel’ etc lumped in with them. These are the real ‘weird nerds’ that Teslo talks about, and a couple of high profile tech successes doesn’t change the fact that for the majority of them, adolescence (and often adulthood) is still utterly miserable.
One of the really interesting things about the Salem Witch trials is that the accusers were all young women. Similarly, the insult of "weird" against JD Vance is mostly coming from young women. He gives them the "ick." "Weirdness" is a gendered phenomenon, and we often underestimate how much men are followers and women are leaders in defining social spaces.
Sure, the gregarious theater kid may be more popular than the football player but that's just a change in the relative status of theater and football. But the socially skilled, friendly and decently looking/groomed have never been the ones subject to hardcore bullying. That has always targeted those who stick out -- mostly those who have trouble grasping social subtexts, find it difficult to engage in social lieing/preference falsification most people do naturally or otherwise have low social/emotional skill.
Some people grow out of being weird some don't but often have quite good lives (Bill Gates and Scott Aaronson qualify) but they aren't the people running the world or taking revenge. The weird people go become effective altruists or rationalists. Even Gates for all his billions is obviously not able to really relate to most people and isn't going to be comfortable schmoozing or wielding power in the way it is usually done.
Unsurprisingly, even when the things like tech that was inspired by and developed by the weird, become more important those with great social and interpersonal skills try to claim association or dominance. But the weird still get left on the outside because real weirdness is a genuine barrier to the kind of social networking necessary to form the kind of networks you complain about.
Indeed, it's the weird who are usually the ones who get cancelled. People who are just not in the tribe or enemies of it either are beyond it's reach or know not to fuck themselves. It's the people who can't play the social game as well and get confused into thinking that they should take things at face value and actually tell the truth about certain things etc..
Yeah, this author doesn’t seem to have actually bothered to verify their claims on weirdness, and seems to assume that because Bill Gates is successful, people like him now have an easier time. They don’t - the people being severely bullied are the exact same people as before, it’s just now they don’t have ‘being gay/having computer science skills/liking Marvel’ etc lumped in with them. These are the real ‘weird nerds’ that Teslo talks about, and a couple of high profile tech successes doesn’t change the fact that for the majority of them, adolescence (and often adulthood) is still utterly miserable.
Lots of things
demanding to see Obamas birth certificate
antivaxx
calling people who disagree with you “cat ladies”
believing that cutting taxes on the rich and creating deficits promotes growth