Do you feel your criticism would still apply with the same force if it was clear that the author was considered to be a geek by himself and others?

*Edited to add a quote from http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/fifteen.html regarding this point:

  > First up is the issue of what "geek" means. It's an ill-
  > defined subculture at the best of times, but I generally
  > see two loose and overlapping superfamilies. On the one 
  > hand, those geeks whose common denominator is a passion 
  > for technical pursuits of all sorts -- OS geeks, coding 
  > geeks, sysadmin geeks, etc.; on the other, those whose 
  > common denominator is a passion for media -- comic book 
  > geeks, film geeks, anime geeks, gaming geeks, etc. I'm a 
  > game designer with a degree in performance studies. You 
  > can probably guess where I fall. I wasn't thinking espe-
  > cially rigorously when I wrote 5GSF (or, for that matter,
  > Why Geeks Like Anime), so while I defined my terms, I
  > used the media-geek definition throughout. This caused
  > problems for some readers coming from the other side of
  > the tracks -- like, say, Metafilter.

I just can’t find the hostility or attack in it that you’re seeing. It sounds like someone inside a group pushing the emergency button.

This kind of comment is a poor response, and not one you could ever prove. All it does is shit up the comments and amounts to little more than an insult.

At least post something substantial.