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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1729583" data-attributes="member: 6533">You can't just not be a nerd, you also have to fight for what's good about being a nerd.Note this comment:So Jason is a dilligent, curious, individualist, and that's the sort of person we don't want to be role-playing?Actually:Jason is cruel, petty, vinidicative, and prefers crushing his fellow students and siblings to honestly playing with them or helping them to appreciate what he loves.But this is not what Nisarg and most critics will point out. Because by having those positive traits Jason is already a nerd, because the negative traits are a given.  And that's not Jason or Nisarg's fault that's the way any stereo-type works.  You take a set of good elements and bad elements and associate them with each other because the point of a stereo-type is to prevent the norm, with its faults and virtues, from being challenged.To do the best sort of good you have to take Nisarg's advice and act contrary to the bad parts of a stereo-type......but you also have to defend what's good about it.Go out and become more beautiful than the average man, be Buffy, but if you do that then defend what's cool about being Spock.Because yeah it's wrong for a man to not keep up with his hygiene, but it's worse for a man to attack a kid, even a fictional kid, for doing his homework.</blockquote>