Aellé
Aellé
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

If it wasn’t for Emoji: the Movie, Ready Player One would already be preordained to the the Geek’s version of the movie Ishtar. I can’t wait to see how Spielberg creates his worst movie ever.

If Ready Player One isn’t already like the dead-on stereotype of the Gamer-gate Geeker, I don’t know what is. Cline’s “erotic poetry” also screams of stuff I’ve seen in adult versions of anime called hentai, which I’m convinced between them and actual Japanese porn is a prime reason why Japan’s youth don’t want to have children of their own. It’s uncomfortable, awkward, and frankly uber patriarchal in a guise of the kind of loser geekdom that the 4chan community revels in. I bet Cline’s poem is revered as much in the 4chan-ish underbelly as it’s reviled on Twitter and Facebook.

My biggest concern isn’t that Ready Player One will continue to push the “loser computer nerd-ish guy forever doomed to live in the basement of his mother’s house” stereotype but rather gives a geeker version of the jock and rich kid boy destined to be permitted to find his own type of girl to dominate in some indirect fashion whether it’s the cheerleader for the jock, the rich socialite daughter for the rich kid, and the valedictorian girl for the geek. This is completely unnecessary.

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