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Man, I wish someone had said this to me when I was in High School:
[Wil Wheaton’s response to a little girl on how to deal with being called a nerd] (Viewer #697,909)
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Man, I wish someone had said this to me when I was in High School:
[Wil Wheaton’s response to a little girl on how to deal with being called a nerd] (Viewer #697,909)
That was good advice and all, but I can’t resist – “Shut up, Wesley!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlc_YnCoSp0
I can speak from personal experience… that advice probably wouldn’t work. It’s hard to hear what the nerds are telling you. The gym locker they’re stuffed in tends to muffle their voices. And when you’re giving them a swirlie? Forget about it. All you can hear is their “glub glub glub.”
I joke. But, in all seriousness, this advice is good for a 4yr old. It’s probably good for a 10yr old. It’s not so good for a 13-16yr old. Such an approach will likely end up with him in the nurse’s office. As a nerd, I can tell you that at some point in your teenage life, you’ll eventually have to let your fist do the talking.
Bullies can be manipulated when they’re young, because they’re stupid. When they get older, you gotta learn to stand up for yourself and be ready to back it up with defensive force.
So Wheaton gets street cred for being a nerd because he played one in a TV series?
AT-thats EXACTLY what I was thinking. The advice was *benevolent*-key word-but only works in Roald Dahl (my spelling sucks) situations, i.e. where the bully is misunderstood, merely “hurt” and emotionally disconnected. Teenagers have enough cognition to understand their own motivations, so if they are still bullies by late middle school or high school, yeah its a “life choice” and being nice won’t work. From what I’ve seen Wheaton is a decent human being, but still very insulated in the hollywood “cone” of unreality, if you will.
Of course he chose to be a nerd. He chose not to be involved in sports, he chose to pursue books and science. And that’s fine, as far as I’m concerned. It’s not like being a nerd is a birth defect or something. He’s using gay rights key words here and throughout the response, which sorta stands out to me.
The rest of it, ‘it being all about them’ is mostly true but doesn’t really touch on contempt. There’s plenty of school-age kids that are cruel, not because they feel inferior, but just the opposite.
Can never decide how much of a dick Will Wheaton is, sometimes he seems ok, sometimes he comes off as a brainwashed victim of the left.
Meh, I used my powers of math and science to gain friends in high school. People calling me names did bother me for a while, but when my mom told me the “Sticks and stones” poem I discovered that vibrating air coming out of peoples mouths didn’t physically hurt, and I didn’t worry about it anymore.
Later, I learned that ridicule and humiliation are two pretty effective training techniques when used correctly while I was in the Army.