"Nerdy men" and the double standard it represents.

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127. it's simple: it's anti-intellectualism

which is a form of discrimination just as sexism, racism, heightism, weightism, etc. are.

for the most part, talking about "nerdy men" is pretty straightforward anti-intellectualism. it's not so much shaming this group because men in particular aren't supposed to be intellectual, it's really that people aren't supposed to be intellectual.


if you want to get a bit more refined in your analysis, yes, there are areas of overlap in discrimination, ask a lesbian. in this case, the reason for asserting the anti-intellectualism may certainly be to tarnish the image of the smarter male competitors and to make the attributes of the non-intellectual males appear attractive by comparison. but i'd say that's a more nuanced view.

the straightforward, simple analysis that gets it mostly right is that it just plain anti-intellectualism.