tyzephyr's Journal: Geek snobbery

I think at some point everyone in the "geek" culture could be accused of snobbery. I recently came across someone who made me re-evaluate my own snotty attitude towards certain types of geeks in the hierarchy...

I was on Flickr and noticed a picture of Pocky. It was subtitled with something along the lines of "This stuff is really popular in Japan, the kids there eat it like crazy!"
Now, I found this to be a stupid comment as Pocky is relatively popular in the US - at least among the culture/subculture I hang out with; So I commented with "Yeah, I live in the states but Pocky is like crack to most of my friends - then again, most of my friends are anime freaks and gamers."
Her responding comment more or less said that those people are only kids born in the 90's who weren't around when being called a "nerd" wasn't COOL, unlike her friends who were all born in the 70's & 80's, who were REAL gamers that played RPG's and watched old skool cartoons.
Considering I'm 23, and most of my friends are between 21 & 30 y/o, I found her comment rather, well, stuck up.

...which got me to thinking of my own attitude. I mean, I'll admit it, I kinda look down on CCGers. In my experience they're kinda gross.
Also, gamers with a lot of cats bother me too. Especially male gamers... it's just weird.
Then there are the two types of table top RPG gamer. The first type I enjoy - I am one sometimes. The regular person, "I have a job but I do this for fun." Then there's THEM. The other type of table top gamer. The live-in-their-mama's-basement-until-they're-45 type. These are the scary ones.
OH OH! And one more - the Naruto kids. These people... THESE PEOPLE... who ware those damn Naruto headbands all the time, constantly bitch about how CN messed up their FAVORITE SHOW (as if this is something CN doesn't do with every anime), and go to every single CON dressed (poorly) as their fav Naruto character.

I guess what I'm saying is we're all a little biased. We all have an entire group of geeks we can't stand/look down on. We all have our own little idea of a geek hierarchy. And of course, we're the kings & queens of our own hierarchy. Maybe we could all (myself included) learn to be a little more benevolent.