Why not both?
If I'm understanding the question correctly, social norms and stereotypes, of course.
(.. not that I would agree with them.)It's obvious to me that the nerds are, generally speaking, the cool ones. There are bad nerds though, even on this forum. I was merely responding to pugman's separation of them.
The point being: Even when factoring in social norms/stereotypes, I'd still choose nerd, any day of the week.... except on Saturday's.. I'm Shomer Shabbos. I don't work, I dont drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I dont handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit won't be fucking picking between nerds and "cool boys". Shomer Shabbos!!
I am kind of thinking that without necessarily creating different forum accounts, each of us has an ability to create our on-line persona, and maybe even to start over?
Of course, each of us has our personal predilections, too. For example, quite frequently I receive suggestions about how I should or could modify my online personality in one way or another that might be more satisfying to some others, and other readings into my online persona as if my online persona is equivalent to my in real life persona.
Of course, there is going to be some overlap, but there certainly can be abilities in the non-meat space, when not distracted by the actual meat.
