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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
I don't that's the case here. Most people think things like the SCA, LARPS, or even HEMA are embarrassingly nerdy but that boxing definitely isn't. Certianly media portrayals of martial artists (who aren't boxers) outside of action genres often uses geek stereotypes, from Say Anything to Napoleon Dynamite.
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Hmm. You seem to be grouping things differently than the way I saw them grouped. As in, IME, LARPs* and tabletop RPGs fell into the Nerdy group, while wearing plate and participating in fights using wooden swords was more linked to the Informal group (with a strong slant towards Metal culture). And the Informal/Metal culture was considered a rather different entirely, with a stereotype for physical toughness, but
not for the savant-like focus on unpopular intellectual topics. If anything, swinging swords seems like a very jocky thing to do.
* == LARPS in the style of MET, i.e. without actual shooting and sword-swinging.