This afternoon, I decided to run a personal social experiment.
My plan was simple: Play Magic: The Gathering in McConn. Magic: The Gathering was a card game created in 1993. It was essentially the game that both Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh stemmed from. MTG shaped a huge part of the male childhood experience. Regardless, it is seen as nerdy. Rightfully so, perhaps.
Zach Arneson and I sat down to play and something interesting happened. People actually noticed. Mostly, their recognition came from snickers. A couple of people were actually audacious enough to confront our nerdiness with disdain. I was surprised when a freshman girl, about five feet tall with a short blond pixie cut approached us and told us that we were some of the most nerdy kids she'd ever seen. I was honestly shocked, and I definitely laughed out loud.
I wonder what gives someone the nerve to approach strangers just to say something so brash. And if we are being so harshly judged for being "different," how much more would we judge those off of our homogeneous campus where society is even more diverse?
In Devon's defense, she is a very bold little pixie. Probably comfortable because I was there ;)
ReplyDeleteIndeed, that was probably the reason. I was still a bit shocked. :P
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