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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 1729434" data-attributes="member: 9037">There are no more freaks now then there were in the 70s. I have been in trek fandom since then and I have found it to be about the same the only thing that really changes is the make of the uniforms that certain fans make.Let me clue you in on something about SF fans they had the first con in the 40s and even back then they were sterotyped as bespectecled weak freaks who couldn't get a date if their life depended on it. This image of a maladjusted smart nerd living in his parents basement was around in the 40 long before gaming ever was thought of. The sterotype has always been here and you know why because some people find it easier to sterotype. For example a person who learns klingon and likes to dress in costume for events and likes to practice with a bathleth is a maladjusted freak right? Just because he also happens to have a wife two kids and is a neonatalogist saving thousands of premature babies every year. But if you saw him at a con in full costume in character you would not know all those other facts about him.As for trek having a lot of freaks in it are you aware that Starfleet one of the biggest clubs raises a lot of money for charity? Everything you are saying has been said  many times before by others it is nothing new. Like I said before I think a lot of this is worry that you will be judged this way for being in this hobby.</blockquote>