TechnoSexual: Conspiracy to Make You Buy More Crap
Just when I think there is some hope for geek culture to rise above the shallowness of lesser castes I come across a crapstorm of embedded video proportions:
Like the term Metrosexual (*shudder) this is just another buzzword used by commercial interests to get us to buy more crap. Whereas metrosexuals are urged to buy hair goop and natty clothing geeks are beer-bombed more of the kool-aide they’ve always fallen for: smaller, shinier, better, more. It’s time to break the cycle of addiction. You are not the gadgets that you use. You are a PERSON first and foremost, a consumer demographic second, third, or perhaps even twenty-seventh.
Besides, the terms Gear-Whore or Electro-Slut are so much more accurate.
July 18th, 2007 at 9:50 am
[…] Woot has long been the sterling pinnacle of geek impulse shopping. It has stripped the pretense from web savvy shoppers and exposed them for what they are: lusting technosexuals for whom a good deal is a Pavlovian bell. And when they have their famous Woot-offs its like the cacophony of ‘carol of the bells’ played out on geek wallets everywhere. […]
April 24th, 2008 at 5:05 am
[…] though, this is the kind of apparel idea that only a clueless technosexual could love. And while a pair of speakers built into the knees is begrudgingly cool the placement of […]