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Arguing that geeks are oppressed and therefore men geeks are just as oppressed as women geeks is a silencing tactic in discussions of geek feminism. The argument goes that geek men have very often experienced or are currently experiencing some of the following: * exclusion by non-geek peers * bullying and cruelty from non-geek peers * less success than they'd like at forming romantic or sexual relationships * having a sense that the social, emotional, romantic and/or sexual rules of society are known to everyone but them

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  • Arguing that geeks are oppressed and therefore men geeks are just as oppressed as women geeks is a silencing tactic in discussions of geek feminism. The argument goes that geek men have very often experienced or are currently experiencing some of the following: * exclusion by non-geek peers * bullying and cruelty from non-geek peers * less success than they'd like at forming romantic or sexual relationships * having a sense that the social, emotional, romantic and/or sexual rules of society are known to everyone but them
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  • Arguing that geeks are oppressed and therefore men geeks are just as oppressed as women geeks is a silencing tactic in discussions of geek feminism. The argument goes that geek men have very often experienced or are currently experiencing some of the following: * exclusion by non-geek peers * bullying and cruelty from non-geek peers * less success than they'd like at forming romantic or sexual relationships * having a sense that the social, emotional, romantic and/or sexual rules of society are known to everyone but them Individual women are involved in some of these difficulties, the most commonly discussed one is where a male geek is attracted to a woman or women who do not realise, enjoy or reciprocate his attraction. The emotional power the attractions or attachments have over the man's feelings is interpreted by him as a social power accruing to women that offsets any oppression by the patriarchy. Alternatively a man geek may feel that the bullying he experiences is far more hurtful than the, say, career difficulties a woman geek has. It's important to note that the above difficulties are real and painful to people who have experienced them, and that a geek who is privileged by being a man may have intersecting oppressions. However, experiencing one kind of victimisation or oppression does not automatically grant understanding of others, nor does it lead to winning the Oppression Olympics. An alternative version of this is the man geek who experienced oppression (often but not always poverty) and is now personally or professionally successful. He uses this as evidence that individual talent and motivation can overcome oppression, and that discussion of oppression is merely people who are failures making excuses for themselves. See Clawed my way up.
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