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<blockquote data-quote="fodigg" data-source="post: 4672695" data-attributes="member: 69518">Which is what I was railing against.&nbsp; The part in my post where I say &quot;if you set your shop up to be a boy's club, it will be&quot;.I'm not denying there are idiots in the world.&nbsp; God no.&nbsp; Water is wet.&nbsp; The Chicago Cubs will always dissapoint me in the end.&nbsp; And there are stupid people.&nbsp; I'm simply calling them out on it.Are you getting this out of personal experience?&nbsp; Are you guessing about the age-demographic for the writers?To me it seems like you're referencing a stereotype and apologizing for the writers using a stereotype.&nbsp; And you know what, you might be right.&nbsp; That doesn't make it acceptable, and I feel fully justified in calling BS on it.I find it unrealistic because the actor portraying Alex was not a &quot;sweaty man&quot; who needed to be in a &quot;sweaty man haven&quot;.&nbsp; He's even said to be a jock, a swimmer.That said, am I surprised by it?&nbsp; No, not really.&nbsp; This is a show about stereotypes and corresponding powers that go along with it (e.g., the blonde cheerleader, the black ex-con, the japanese office worker).&nbsp; So with Alex we get the geek who is awkward around girls and has a superpower like the &quot;geekiest&quot; member of the justice league (Which is a load of crap, for the record. Aquaman is hardcore. You try to look good wearing that much orange and green.). The thing is that the need to provide a Claire-equivalent pretty-boy and the growning trend of &quot;geek-charm&quot; (e.g., &quot;Chuck&quot;) in the media makes the presentation ring false even for the stereotype.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fodigg, post: 4672695, member: 69518"] Which is what I was railing against. The part in my post where I say "if you set your shop up to be a boy's club, it [i]will[/i] be". I'm not denying there are idiots in the world. God no. Water is wet. The Chicago Cubs will always dissapoint me in the end. And there are stupid people. I'm simply calling them out on it. Are you getting this out of personal experience? Are you guessing about the age-demographic for the writers? To me it seems like you're referencing a stereotype and apologizing for the writers using a stereotype. And you know what, [i]you might be right[/i]. That doesn't make it acceptable, and I feel fully justified in calling BS on it. I find it unrealistic because the actor portraying Alex was not a "sweaty man" who needed to be in a "sweaty man haven". He's even said to be a jock, a swimmer. That said, am I surprised by it? No, not really. This is a show about stereotypes and corresponding powers that go along with it (e.g., the blonde cheerleader, the black ex-con, the japanese office worker). So with Alex we get the geek who is awkward around girls and has a superpower like the "geekiest" member of the justice league (Which is a load of crap, for the record. Aquaman is hardcore. [i]You[/i] try to look good wearing that much orange and green.). The thing is that the need to provide a Claire-equivalent pretty-boy and the growning trend of "geek-charm" (e.g., "Chuck") in the media makes the presentation ring false even for the stereotype. [/QUOTE]

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