Enough!

It never fails. A new Star Wars movie opens and late night talk show hosts make fund of these alleged losers who go see it. You think the joke would be old by now.

It doesn’t even make sense to ride the joke out as long as they have. Maybe 30 years ago, it’d be easy to dismiss Star Wars fans as virgin nerds….but it’s grown so much since then. It’s become a cultural phenomenon that goes far past high school AV students and the chess club, but apparently Leno, Conan and Letterman haven’t realized it. At the showings I’ve seen, there have been all sorts of people attending: Kids, teenagers, moms, businessmen, black people, white people, geeks and fratties alike. A large majority of the U.S. population will go to see these movies, but I guess it’s still funny to some to pretend they don’t.

Last night, almost a week since the movie’s opening and a month after they started making fun of those lining up, Conan and Leno both were still going strong with their bias. At one point, they sent a cute blonde girl to ask the moviegoers if they were virgins or if they lived with their parents or had jobs and, of course, to say stupid things about the movie. How ridiculous. I mean, I saw it opening night and I don’t fit that stereotype. Neither do the majority of geeks from the 70s, who grew up to be responsible adults just like everyone else. Some of the guys she went after were so obviously not the sort they were hoping to find.

These are jokes made by ignorant writers who wear their biases on their sleeves. So, can we cut it out already?