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In the (relatively average) 2015 American biblical sci-fi series The Messengers, actor Joel Courtney (pic related) plays the role of a "swim nerd" orphaned Arkansas teenager chosen by God along six other randoms to stop the impending Apocalypse. Superpowers and a race against time ensues.
I was surprised by the description of an athlete as a "nerd". Seriously? Is swimming that unpopular in the US that high-school swimmers are picked on, called gay, and considered "nerds"? And why?
Legit question. In my country swimming is neither popular nor unpopular in high school, but either way, people who can swim laps for hours are not usually looked down.
I asked /asp/ about that a few days ago but didn't get a lot of answers since /asp/ is actually almost entirely about wrestling.
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Here's another image from the series, just for the sake of avoiding a 1-image thread. I never noticed, but you can see a swimmer's reflection in the underside of the water surface! Pretty cool. Opticks and whatnot.
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Bump. Is really nobody here from the US with high school experience who could tell me more about this and satisfy my curiosity?
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"Nerd" can just be another way of saying someone really, really likes something.
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I went to an American high school and I don't recall swimmers being thought of as nerds or gay. But we didn't have a swimming team and in fact the sport never crossed my mind. It's probably the same as in your country. Well, that's one American's perspective.
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