GEEKS can be the oppressors too. (Score 2)

I understand the outrage over the Village Voice article..

Regardless of your race or social status, you can be opressed and abused.
I remember kids from high school who hung out with the jocks and were considered jocks by most but who felt sick about it all the time...

They didn't know how to get away from the jocks.. they were afraid of the people who were supposedly their friends. They were afraid of the harassment they would have to endure if they tried to get away (and i truly believe in these cases it would have been worse then what the geeks had to endure). But, believe it or not.. I've seen geeks do the same things to their friends. I've seen people who have been trapped by their geek friends who constantly endure a barrage of abuse because they don't love star wars (or for some reason equally stupid).

I've known Geeks who have belittled me for being female.. I've known Geeks who have gone out of their way to trash my projects so they could get a slightly higher mark...

Worst of all.... I've known Geeks who acted like jocks, showed the social awareness of a jock and after being an asshole to everyone, would then go on to tell us al that we were stupid (or maybe even call us ugly) for not giving in to their childish demands.

They would treat people (who weren't jocks or geeks) like they were complete morons because they hadn't heard of *Linux*... The Geeks at my school made fun of people too...

Now, I know that a lot of geeks are hurt and treated badly.. but I really believe that it's more of an individual thing..

I'm from Canada.. and every school in my city has its own personality... I was always into "Geeky" things, as long as I can remember... but I faced opression on both sides. I wasn't geeky enough for the geeks and I did NOT want to hang out with the jocks...

But Geeks had some sort of elevated status at my school... they believed that because they had been accepted by this unbelievably clique-ish group of geeks that they were somehow the most intelligent people on the face of the planet... even the jocks sort of looked up to them in some sort of twisted way...

I hated my situation and wanted to make it better.. instead of kiiling them all I sat down and made a plan to my school a better place..
I made it possible for those who had no friends, who had no group to be my friend...

the jocks didn't like me, the geeks didn't like me... but that was ok.. because there were other people out there who needed friends. people who were sensitive and treated badly by both sides...

ok well, anyway.. my point is.. opression can be felt by anyone.. and the oppression can be cause by anyone.. we've all been the oppressor or the oppressee at some point..

We all need to take a good look at our situations if we don't like it and then make an effort to change it.. I was the most sensitive, self consious child.. I would cry before school everyday because i was afraid.. but then I learned to reach out and help and it made me feel a lot better...

much better then feeling self pity.