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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 6121265" data-attributes="member: 3987">Which is the point. In programs that aren't sitcoms you tend to get more rounded and developed characters, the geeks in these programs are generally more simpathetic and their character flaws are less exaggerated.Really there is very little difference in how they are handled it seems to me it is more a matter of taste for you.Really, because trading friendly insults is a pretty common chat up technique used by both men and women.No because normally people don't insult people to their face, unless it is done as a friendly jest, or their has been some angry build up before hand. Hence it probably wasn't intended to cause offence.Have you even watched the movie? The "virgin" in it, was the most likable character of all his male companions, for his naivety round women, he was the most caring, and least chauvinistic male character in the film. Sure he painted miniatures and was a virgin at the start of the movie. But he wasn't a bad stereotype, he was handsome, caring, had a job wasn't overweight, in fact his only problem was his naivety around women. It's hardly a terrible stereotype.No but you will assume the worst about them based on a joke they make.Societal norms, like I said before people rarely throw insults at strangers, unless some argument has heated up before (or you've cut them up in traffic). There are a couple of occasions this happens, one is banter between friends, and the other is towards people you are attacted to in jest.I get where you are coming from, just a) I don't agree with you.b) Pretty much most of the rest of society doesn't agree with you.I'm trying (like other people in this thread) to show you that.I do though. Have that right. Free speech and all of that. No one has taken away the right to offend (well okay they have in the UK, but there are attempts to get that stupid law repealled).Perhaps not, but you know when BBT is hugely popular, especially among geeks, I think it does make your opinions about it a little less valid.</blockquote>

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