Why do people think that people who read are losers and make fun of them?

Question

Why is it considered "uncool" to read? I like to read and I have many books. People in my life tend to complain about my books and reading. I do have alot of books but I don't just sit on my butt all day and read. Why do people have to make fun of the people who like to read?

Answer 1

I love to read books, too...welcome to the club, girl! Don't worry about it. Reading opens up a world unfamiliar to our own & takes us away from reality.

Answer 2

Suprisingly, many people find that reading actual books is a waste of time and I wonder why myself. I love to read and often wish that I had more time to do so. I don't think that these complainers realize that you increase your vocabulary, strengthen your comprehension and keep your mind active with reading. Perhaps, they don't feel that reading is presently important, but, in the long term readers will be the great thinkers, speakers, and those less prone to developing Alzheimer's and dementia.

Ignore the non-reading masses and know that you are cool and smart, because, you do read!

Answer 3

Anyone who would mention anything less than more power to you to an intelligent reading person is a complete retard. The television sets people are so addicted to constantly have scene changes. These constant scene changes do effect the memory and cause the attention span to lessen. Those who read books are actually smarter as they spend more time paying attention and being consistent with their work. A television is only a retarded box which makes young people very naive.

Answer 4

I go through this a lot. I like to read and I am a collector of books. Most of the people who make fun of this are people who do not have the patience or imagination to make it through a book.

In other words, if they can't see what is happening in front of them on a screen, they have no interest. I say it's their loss.

Answer 5

Because people who don't read don't have much to work with other than ridicule. Readers might know how to use intellect, logic, reason, creative thinking and so on, but uneducated people can't do much beyond pointing and laughing. Pity them, tell them you would like to listen to their idiotic comments some time, but you are busy doing something important at the moment.

Answer 6

Uh... What are you doing right now?? I was called a Dork, Bookworm and a Nerd because I went to a bar in a Mall and was reading a book I purchase, the STAFF was calling me that!!

Answer 7

Because those people are jealous of our capacity to accumulate intelligence. They make fun of things they don't understand and will never have the aptitude to understand. The pursuit of knowledge through reading is a very honorable quest, something that the Neanderthals among us will never understand(the Geico commercials aside).

Answer 8

I believe it comes from the stereotype that people who read tend to be anti-social. Also, the people who make fun tend to be jealous and ignorant.

Answer 9

because for people tv is new version of a book and reading is boring to allot of people and reading is vaste of lots of time i aint saying its bad but it kinda makes people like a nerd which is not good

Answer 10

Take a barrel, fill it with crabs, whenever one crab trys to crawl out of the mess inside the others will pull it back down don't listen to the idiot crabs they will always be in the barrel. You however will see what's outside the barrel.....