Nerds Vs Popular Kids
The idea of being a nerd, versus being popular has plenty of analytic depth. Studies have shown that nerds get teased and bullied by their peers. The kids that appear to do the bulk of the teasing are those who are unsure about their status quo and or the popular kids who have bad days. Usually popular kids don’t bother nerds because they’re already secure about themselves, they don’t really need validation. Nerds are an easy target for ridicule because somewhere down the line someone decided that being smart or intelligent was uncool, and that the average minded people should be treated like royalty. Nerds are constantly faced with an inner conflict; they want the perks of being popular and the perks of being smart. They have these ideas
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about creating innovative things to change the world and to somehow end up better than the popular kids, but on the other hand they have these fantasies about being popular; playing sports, and being loved, etc… They never realize how much work and effort is put into being popular, until after they’ve already tried and failed numerous times. Luckily for nerds, their harsh reality of being bullied, feeling unwanted and being separated only lasts for a little while, even though it seems like a lifetime (This is just the dramatics of adolescent kids). In the adult world, most people only pay attention to the things that affects them. So whether or not someone is a nerd, compared to everything else, it’s minuscule. Smart people tend to be steps ahead their average minded peers, therefore the reason why nerds don’t fit in is simply because they’re always steps ahead and to someone who’s physically imposing and mentally frail, that one factor is intimidating. Until the adults in these kids’ lives decide to play an active role in the development of these youth, the American standards in secondary schooling will forever remain the same. This means that thousands of kids will continue to commit suicide each day all because of a lack of compassion from the adults.
I agree with Graham’s ideology to a certain extent, I feel that he digressed from the main point quite a few times but managed to bring it back.
I like the fact that he gave a very accurate analogy comparing school teachers to prison guards. I also think that school teachers are a lot like prison guards in many aspects such as; lack of compassion, low tolerance, no patience, and conforming to the stereo types placed on people by society. I wish that he would’ve elaborated a little more on the concept of popular kids not having to ridicule their nerd counter-parts because they have already reached their level of comfort (I think that this is a misconception). People assume that “popular” kids are automatically bullies or only have a certain level of intelligence. I wish that he would’ve expanded on this idea. I was surprised at how in depth he went into the subconscious war between nerds and their popular peers. The very idea of being a nerd versus being popular had to start somewhere. I wish that he elaborated on the origin of the entire concept; where it came from, when, why, and how did it become American culture, and why is this phenomena so embedded in our minds that it has become second nature. His courageousness in speaking out against this almost preferred concept made the article very interesting to read. I feel that he should have elaborated more on the fact that at the end of the day; nerds, geeks, dorks, popular kids, athletes, cheerleaders, etc… are all just kids, and because this phenomena has been internalized in American culture due to endless movies that portrays separatism, and millions of books that use this concept, children growing up in this society has no other choice but to internalize the nerd versus popular rhetoric. In order to rid of this internalized phenomena we as a growing society have to first understand why we think that beating another kid’s ass because the size of his or her physic or their intelligence is ok. This is a sick
cruel society approved mindset that can only be fixed by simply asking moral and logical questions to oneself. I appreciated the article for giving the reader so much insight this plague.
about creating innovative things to change the world and to somehow end up better than the popular kids, but on the other hand they have these fantasies about being popular; playing sports, and being loved, etc… They never realize how much work and effort is put into being popular, until after they’ve already tried and failed numerous times. Luckily for nerds, their harsh reality of being bullied, feeling unwanted and being separated only lasts for a little while, even though it seems like a lifetime (This is just the dramatics of adolescent kids). In the adult world, most people only pay attention to the things that affects them. So whether or not someone is a nerd, compared to everything else, it’s minuscule. Smart people tend to be steps ahead their average minded peers, therefore the reason why nerds don’t fit in is simply because they’re always steps ahead and to someone who’s physically imposing and mentally frail, that one factor is intimidating. Until the adults in these kids’ lives decide to play an active role in the development of these youth, the American standards in secondary schooling will forever remain the same. This means that thousands of kids will continue to commit suicide each day all because of a lack of compassion from the adults.
I agree with Graham’s ideology to a certain extent, I feel that he digressed from the main point quite a few times but managed to bring it back.
I like the fact that he gave a very accurate analogy comparing school teachers to prison guards. I also think that school teachers are a lot like prison guards in many aspects such as; lack of compassion, low tolerance, no patience, and conforming to the stereo types placed on people by society. I wish that he would’ve elaborated a little more on the concept of popular kids not having to ridicule their nerd counter-parts because they have already reached their level of comfort (I think that this is a misconception). People assume that “popular” kids are automatically bullies or only have a certain level of intelligence. I wish that he would’ve expanded on this idea. I was surprised at how in depth he went into the subconscious war between nerds and their popular peers. The very idea of being a nerd versus being popular had to start somewhere. I wish that he elaborated on the origin of the entire concept; where it came from, when, why, and how did it become American culture, and why is this phenomena so embedded in our minds that it has become second nature. His courageousness in speaking out against this almost preferred concept made the article very interesting to read. I feel that he should have elaborated more on the fact that at the end of the day; nerds, geeks, dorks, popular kids, athletes, cheerleaders, etc… are all just kids, and because this phenomena has been internalized in American culture due to endless movies that portrays separatism, and millions of books that use this concept, children growing up in this society has no other choice but to internalize the nerd versus popular rhetoric. In order to rid of this internalized phenomena we as a growing society have to first understand why we think that beating another kid’s ass because the size of his or her physic or their intelligence is ok. This is a sick
cruel society approved mindset that can only be fixed by simply asking moral and logical questions to oneself. I appreciated the article for giving the reader so much insight this plague.