My wife used to get the negativity also. As she put it, "You expect me not to be a gamer geek when you have all those RPG books and gone for several months in the Navy?"
She even admitted that being a gamer geek helped her through the times I was gone on missions. She even admitted that reading my sci-fi and fantasy library helped more than reading other stuff.
She got hooked by marrying a sci-fi/fantasy/gaming geek.
I'm more of a history geek than anything, but I get their point. At least they pointed out that some of the snarkage comes from within the "geek community" and not always from outside.
How true. I am told many times that I ain't a geek because I don't have a comic book collection or memorobelia (?msp) or artwork collection. I tend towards more of being a book and maps collector. And when I mention all the sci-fi series and movies I have on DVD, I am still told I ain't geek enough. I then respond that they are not geeks, but ____ole jerks.
Well, as far as I am concerned, I am a geek. And damned proud of it. I am up there with GOF with being a geek before geek was a word. Back then, the term was nerd.
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