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May. 11th, 2003 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumLast night we had a THEM party, and watched a little TV. Among the shows was "The 25 Greatest Videos to Get It On to" or something to that effect. And we mocked everything.
I think I realized at the end that the mockery was a symptom of something but I couldn't tell what. I figured it must be something beyond the usual geek tendency to shun those things that popular culture embraces, but maybe that's exactly what it is.
Popular culture embraces the kind of televised seduction present in many music videos. Therefore geek culture must shun it, in favor of, for example, the kind of televised angst you see in anime, and in science fiction shows.
Somehow I think geeks may be a little threatened by the idea of "beautiful people" getting it on. Perhaps our pragmatic minds fear that they'll breed faster than us. Maybe it's standard jealousy, if not at the contrivances on-screen taken seriously, but at the freedom with which the actors therein can perform them. Or, maybe we just weren't programmed with the same visual cues that the pop-culture zombies are, and as a result we can see just how contrived a music video is. Or maybe those of us who have gotten it on, didn't use music videos in our seduction ploy.
Or maybe it was just all the people talking over the videos. Many of them were more than a bit dopey.
Though I do think there's a kind of unwarranted stigma against seduction in geek culture. That would explain a lot.
I think I realized at the end that the mockery was a symptom of something but I couldn't tell what. I figured it must be something beyond the usual geek tendency to shun those things that popular culture embraces, but maybe that's exactly what it is.
Popular culture embraces the kind of televised seduction present in many music videos. Therefore geek culture must shun it, in favor of, for example, the kind of televised angst you see in anime, and in science fiction shows.
Somehow I think geeks may be a little threatened by the idea of "beautiful people" getting it on. Perhaps our pragmatic minds fear that they'll breed faster than us. Maybe it's standard jealousy, if not at the contrivances on-screen taken seriously, but at the freedom with which the actors therein can perform them. Or, maybe we just weren't programmed with the same visual cues that the pop-culture zombies are, and as a result we can see just how contrived a music video is. Or maybe those of us who have gotten it on, didn't use music videos in our seduction ploy.
Or maybe it was just all the people talking over the videos. Many of them were more than a bit dopey.
Though I do think there's a kind of unwarranted stigma against seduction in geek culture. That would explain a lot.
