Nerds Vs Popular Kids

The idea of being a nerd, versus being popular has plenty of analytic depth. Studies have shown that nerds get teased and bullied by their peers. The kids that appear to do the bulk of the teasing are those who are unsure about their status quo and or the popular kids who have bad days. Usually popular kids don’t bother nerds because they’re already secure about themselves, they don’t really need validation. Nerds are an easy target for ridicule because somewhere down the line someone decided that being smart or intelligent was uncool, and that the average minded people should be treated like royalty. Nerds are constantly faced with an inner conflict; they want the perks of being popular and the perks of being smart. They have these ideas
I like the fact that he gave a very accurate analogy comparing school teachers to prison guards. I also think that school teachers are a lot like prison guards in many aspects such as; lack of compassion, low tolerance, no patience, and conforming to the stereo types placed on people by society. I wish that he would’ve elaborated a little more on the concept of popular kids not having to ridicule their nerd counter-parts because they have already reached their level of comfort (I think that this is a misconception). People assume that “popular” kids are automatically bullies or only have a certain level of intelligence. I wish that he would’ve expanded on this idea. I was surprised at how in depth he went into the subconscious war between nerds and their popular peers. The very idea of being a nerd versus being popular had to start somewhere. I wish that he elaborated on the origin of the entire concept; where it came from, when, why, and how did it become American culture, and why is this phenomena so embedded in our minds that it has become second nature. His courageousness in speaking out against this almost preferred concept made the article very interesting to read. I feel that he should have elaborated more on the fact that at the end of the day; nerds, geeks, dorks, popular kids, athletes, cheerleaders, etc… are all just kids, and because this phenomena has been internalized in American culture due to endless movies that portrays separatism, and millions of books that use this concept, children growing up in this society has no other choice but to internalize the nerd versus popular rhetoric. In order to rid of this internalized phenomena we as a growing society have to first understand why we think that beating another kid’s ass because the size of his or her physic or their intelligence is ok. This is a sick