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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 2624063" data-attributes="member: 10397">Oh I know, but uphill battles happen to be my speciality  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I understand that. And oftentimes, its good and useful. When dealing with things...objects etc, effects, and some types of ideas its great.When dealing with people tho it is more often than not downright destructive and certainlly counter productive.  That can be true in a lot of ways, and on a lot of levels. This whole thing came up in another thread a while back. When I said I dont consider myself a geek or nerd or care to be labeled as one by others, many made comments about me being "out of touch with my inner geekdom" and things of that sort, and seemed to feel that I just didnt want to be thought of in connection with the negative stigma attached to the words. And that is part of it. Both in the basic way they are thinking of ("nerds" never get the girl, or guy in my case, are socially inept, possible unhygienic etc), but also because in my experience many people use those words in the way a bigot uses racial epithets and I consider them...I guess tainted by that.But on the deeper level, its not the specific stigma. Its the "boxing". Its being limited to one thing...and not just one thing, but one persons idea of what that thing is. I dont like innaccuracies or un-truths of any kind, and thats what those terms generally are.I apologize for my ranting tho. I'm off work today, sitting at the computer trying to compel myself to write...which I suppose I am  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ahhh well...</blockquote>

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