An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
I've never been much given to little social cliques.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.
The ideological posturing, moral nitpicking, and clique formation that occur in places such as academic Twitter have more to do with crafting a scene than building a movement. And scholars, of all people, should be able to recognize these dynamics, call them into question, and make more reasonable decisions about how to engage with their colleagues, whether in agreement or debate.
Joseph M. Keegin is an editor at The Point and a doctoral student in philosophy at Tulane University.
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
At college - I went to Yale, and everybody's very smart, and everybody has their thing that makes them special, and people at Yale would pretend they didn't recognize me. Only after they'd had a couple of drinks would they start singing the 'Life Goes On' theme song.
I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.
It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.
I wasn't a part of any real clique at school but had a select few friends that I would open up to.
Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.
The popular girls let me hang out with them because I was funny. They told me that. 'You're not popular, but you're funny.' Now all my friends are funny.
I'm pretty much only friends with comedians.
He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically. Then I add, “Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees.” “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.” I can’t help but laugh. “Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.