thread: 2005-11-28 : Closeted
On 2005-11-30, Charles Wotton wrote:
Curly,
Yeah, I grant you I probably wouldn't get into deep gaming philosophy in the staff room. However, I made my post based on a snippet of recently overheard conversation:
the subject of D&D came up, was affirmed as something people had observed other kids doing years ago, then someone mentioned with something like scorn (I thought, though I may just have been feeling insecure) that not all the people she'd noticed playing it were children.
I'm not sure if I can generalize from this one case, but I do get the sense sometimes that 'geek-pursuits' are sometimes looked down upon as kind of immature. Genre fiction, for example, especially sci-fi / fantasy is rarely considered 'real literature.'
Of course we make exceptions for movies that make fortunes at the box office—supporting Meguey's point about 'Work ethic' in post 34.
I seem to recall Ursula K LeGuin talking about something like this in her essay "Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons", but, tragically, I can't put my hands on it.
This reminds Curly of people will pay $5,000 for a comic book?"....a key step for comics' eventual....re-postitioning in U.S. culture.
This reminds Isk of Le Guin's essay collection (Amazon).
