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Hey, that '16' in my name isn't for nothing. Call me a teenage bookworm/geek.
Although I do see where you're coming from, unless I'm wrong, because since when was it considered 'cool' to like SF at our age? I speak from a extreme pov, I've been at odds with stereotypes for years, teenage or otherwise, and as for being a female SF fan.....
Anni, I didn't mean to say all Mums are like that, it's just mine is. If you ask me, I think it's a good thing that SF in itself has such a wide age-range of fans.
 
nice one

nice one sci-fi

it is rather depressing 2 b the only sgfan under like, 30

the only people i share my interest with are my piano teacher and my aunt;

very depressing, what is wrong with teenagers nowadays?

they don't know a good thing when they c it.
 
I was lucky as a teenager my best friend loved Sci-fi too (she still does!). It is tough trying to be a sci-fi fan. I always worry people are goin to think Im strange. Then I remember what Terry Prattchett said. "You're not considered strange if you go to sleep in a bedroom full of Man U merchandise, but go to a convention dressed like a Klingon and everyone looks at you funny."
A fact you should always bear in mind whenever anyone gives you a hard time about it!!
 
umm well I'm a big sci-fi fan, but I wouldn't go around dressed as a Klingon or even a Vulcan...but I'm also a Man U fan, and will happily wear my Man U shirt, so what does that say about me??

And my room is full of both Man U and sci-fi stuff :D
 
umm well I'm a big sci-fi fan, but I wouldn't go around dressed as a Klingon or even a Vulcan...but I'm also a Man U fan, and will happily wear my Man U shirt, so what does that say about me??


It tells me that its more acceptable to go out wearing soccer shirts...mind you - MAN UTD?? I don't know whether that is acceptable! LOL

I have been a sci-fi fan since way back when the original Star Trek was the only Star Trek on tv. I am also a fan of Quantum Leap, ST:TNG, Stargate, to name a few......the only people I have found that will talk about the show are people like yourselves - people on fandoms, because as much as my brothers like the show, they are not hardcore fans. They do get sick of 'Jack said this, Teal'c did this' etc. So I say thank God for sites like this where I can discuss Stargate without fear of backlash!!
 
markpud, i've been TOLD not to join forces with u, but...

i'm sure that you would dress as something 2 do with sci-fi if the characters didn't dress in such rediculous clothing

does that make u feel better?
 
Okay that example was just one of the extremes. Im not saying everyone does that. I have a large collection of Sci-fi related t-shirts which I wear with pride. And I proudly wear my Scotland football even if they are rubbish, (my cousin plays for them so Ive got to keep up the support.)
The only t-shirt i ever had a problem woth was my Ares god of war one. One woman looked at me funny and said "Xena, isn't she a big gay icon!"
 
Oh, quotes from Pratchett, nice. Spookypumpkin: Yes, people do not know what they are missing! Don't know if oyu're inot music, but It'll be an amzing day when I enter my form room to anything other then Eminem (sorry fans, he gets on my nerves), and some rubbish rapper I don't know the name of. I get my teachers asking me why I stand in the corridor on my own. Answer, I don't want to be deafened!
I'm not that much of an Sci-Fi fan as far as TV goes. I don't get a chance to watch anything other then SG, and even that was a bit of a fluke. Books are more my scene.
I want to watch Trek and X-Files but my family plead with me 'Please, not that, I couldn't stand it!'.
 
uhuh

yeah, i can't stand eminem

i like greenday and that sorta thing

but not when it's thrust down your throat!
 
I think that Sci Fi used to be something that only Intellectuals, 'nerds' and older guys liked. Certainly when I was 16 (in 1900 and frozen to death!!) I used to think my dad was really weird for liking Science Fiction novels. He used to get them in droves every week from the library. My ex husband was mad on sci fi too. But it wasn't something that anyone 'normal' or female (or both) like to read at that time. I did start reading them a few years later and I did see what he saw in them!

Things have changed quite considerably and quite frankly, it was shows like Star Trek that started everyone of thinking that this was a genre that could really be fun, as well as painting a more positive view of the future of world (and sometimes blowing it up!). Remember that in the 60's when the genre really started to grab hold of the entertainment industry, we were going through the Cold War thing. Everyone wanted something positive to hang on to, nobody wanted to believe that we would go up in smoke in a nuclear war. Prior to the 60's, most of the sci fi films were a joke.... apart from a couple which were really good. The Day the Earth Stood Still leaps to mind. It had some great ideas for it's day.

I think it's great that I can, at the age of 50, talk to people of the age of 16 + - about something that we all like. I find it amazing and wonderful that we can have these discussions. And it doesn't matter what age you are....everyone has something of relevance to say.

Learning never stops at any age. I learn things every day, from my children and most especially from my 2 year old grandson and from people like you. Life is a learning curve and if it isn't then you're stagnating.

When your parents say they don't like sci fi or anything to do with it, it's really change they don't like and let's face it, anything which looks as far into the future as the science fiction genre does, stands for change. People don't like change, it frightens them, and sometimes the older you get the worse that fear becomes and the more you try to hang onto the old things.

Sorry to get all philosophical, but I think you're all great people

:D!
 
I suppose I'm lucky. Sci-fi was always big in my house! That and science. I've always thought the two go hand in hand. My first memories of television are the ending of Blake's 7 and Tom Baker turning into Peter Davison in Doctor Who.
 
gilraen;

my first sci fi memory (proper) was watching sum of my dad's reruns of red dwarf on video!

hee hee
 
definitely a genetic disposition to sci fi handed down from my parents...but my sis doesnt watch any??? But what can I do? Shes a lost cause, esp since she moved away to uni
On the other hand there is no history of football in my family...I started supporting Man U all by myself, and why not ;) (and I started when I was a kid, not when they started winning everything ;))

Gilraen - your cousin plays for Scotland? Whats his name??
 
I just do the opposite to what everyone expects...

Females aren't supposed to like sci-fi....so I do

Females aren't supposed to play soccer.....so I do

Females aren't supposed to travel around the world on their own....so I do

You are actually supposed to have a point to this.....so I don't....


Carkedit
 
Carkedit...... You DO have a point and make it very clearly. A sad one too.

Who told you that females weren't supposed to do all of these things?

You're a human being with free will and choice and just because 'society' has in the past said that those things are in the male and not the female preserve doesn't mean that you're not supposed to do them.

Females can do ANYTHING they want. The offical line of the Ministry of Defence and the British government is that female soldiers are NOT allowed in the FEBA (forward edge of battle area) and they do not get trained as combat soldiers in the same way as men. Yet I was one of the first female British soldiers to be trained in combat skills alongside men. There were a few of us that they decided to train as an experiment and I came through the training with flying colours. I served as a frontline armed escort for senior ranking personnel and was in the FEBA in Kuwait and Iraq during the Gulf War, along with whole platoon of female drivers from the Royal Corps of Transport. So much for the official line about females in battle. The reality is that when it suits them, governments WILL send females into battle.

I reached the rank of Staff Sergeant and my next would have been Sergeant Major, but I was at end of service. I had already passed all of the courses which would have qualified me for this. I was a weapons instructor and instructed in NBC (Nuclear, biological and chemical defence in warfare) and am a combat veteran. I was a highly trained and efficient soldier. Just as efficient and good at my job as any man.

I have travelled around the world alone since I was 18 and am still doing it at 50. And I shall be doing it when I'm 90, if I'm still alive. And I LOVE Sci Fi. I also played football many times with my sons and their friends.

Do what YOU want to do. Always. If you want to like Sci Fi or play football etc. Then it's your choice and your decision and nobody else's business!

Sorry about the soapbox guys. It justs makes me fume when I hear someone say that 'females aren't supposed to do things'.
 
I guess I shouldn't underestimate the number of female fans there really are out there.
Hate having music shoved at me too, but far as Greenday goes, well, this playlist has 'Good riddance (time of your life)' on it in about, oh, two songs time.
Like that one. This is the wrong thread for that.
If it is some kind of seterotype that SF is for males only, then a big mistake is made. I like Red Dwarf, HHGTG, Discworld, some 'real' Sci-Fi, (the kind with 'hard' science in it), and Sg of course.
Break away with all seterotypes, I say!
 
I guess I shouldn't underestimate the number of female fans there really are out there.
Hate having music shoved at me too, but far as Greenday goes, well, this playlist has 'Good riddance (time of your life)' on it in about, oh, two songs time.
Like that one. This is the wrong thread for that.
If it is some kind of seterotype that SF is for males only, then a big mistake is made. I like Red Dwarf, HHGTG, Discworld, some 'real' Sci-Fi, (the kind with 'hard' science in it), and Sg of course.
Break away with all seterotypes, I say!
 
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