Starcraft Briefly Mentioned on ESPN Radio - Page 4

On May 12 2012 10:10 flowSthead wrote:


Gaming is popular, but competitive gaming is not. It's one thing to hang out with your friends and play Halo or Super Smash, it's quite another to call them over to watch he GSL or MLG.

And I think "jock" in may ways is somewhat of an outdated term, but the current incarnation is conflated with "frat boy". A jock in the 80s was basically a nerd hating sports guy, typically a villainous sort, although not always. They were popular, and rarely smart (this of course by stereotype only, not in actuality). Nowadays, a jock might be in to nerd stuff and has just as good of a likelihood to be smart. That part of the stereotype is mostly over, but when people talk about a "typical jock" they really mean the modern day "fart boy", who is basically the 80s style jock only without the specific nerd hating. It's aggressive, sex obsessed guys that don't give a shit about anything in the long term, who also usually end up in business, finance, or McDonalds.

It's not really about accuracy, it's just a common term that people use. It's kind of like hipster, which in reality doesn't mean absolutely anything and no one self-identifies as a hipster, but has a common connotation of being in to "indie", "retro", and "ironic shit", and against "the mainstream". There are very few actual hipsters of this specific type, but there are a wide group of people that are called hipsters, similar how to there are very few jocks of the specific type outlined above, but there are a wide group of people that are called jocks. *shrugs* It is what it is.