There ' s no nerdophobia . There ' s just society having a bias against comparatively weird people , and the crosshairs flopped onto fantasy novels for some reason . And society will have that bias , it ' s just a matter of recognizing it and trying to avoid having it harm people . I wouldn ' t say it doesn ' t exist , just that it ' s part of a much larger issue . I think it ' s all part of the system where people tend to treat people they perceive of being as a lower class than them like crap . Weirdly , that ' s where I fall on GamerGate as a whole . Sure , the whole covering up and hypocrisy over a callout for domestic abuse is troubling , but for me what really resonated was that for people who disagreed with the standard narrative , the protections against racism and sexism no longer applied . I saw far too much nasty shit being thrown at women and minorities who agreed that maybe just maybe there ' s a tribalism problem in the gaming journalism field .