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@ 2017-03-15 17:50 Joseph Reagle
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From: Joseph Reagle @ 2017-03-15 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm not sure what happened, but when I generate a docx (using pandoc 1.19.2.1) Windows Word 2013 chokes on a note related error. (All the notes ended up appearing as footnotes rather than endnotes when opened with Libre Office.)

So I decided it must be time to update my reference.docx. To do that, you can start with the internal/blank one (which only says "Hello"), but I found it's easier to start with one using the styles/types I use (and need to format for APA).

However, I can't even generate a working non-error causing docx file using the default/internal template.

If you try the following on the attached myfile.md, Word 2013 will complain myfile.docx is corrupted. Can anyone reproduce? What am I doing wrong? I have no reference.docx in my .pandoc directory.

```
pandoc -f markdown+mmd_title_block+yaml_metadata_block+implicit_header_references+superscript+subscript+tex_math_dollars+autolink_bare_uris -w html -s --smart --tab-stop 4 -o myfile.docx --mathjax --filter pandoc-citeproc myfile.md
```

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[-- Attachment #2: myfile.docx --]
[-- Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, Size: 8010 bytes --]

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---
title: "Nerd vs. bro: Geek privilege, idiosyncrasy, and triumphalism"
author: Joseph Reagle
date: 20170126
suppress-bibliography: false
...

 To generate a new reference.docx, generate a docx file from this and then customize the styles in MS word:

```
pandoc -f markdown+mmd_title_block+yaml_metadata_block+implicit_header_references+superscript+subscript+tex_math_dollars+autolink_bare_uris -w html -s --smart --tab-stop 4 -o myfile.docx --mathjax --csl=chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl --filter pandoc-citeproc myfile.md
```

**Acknowledgments**: <!-- Carol Stabile, Sarah Jackson, Nora Schaddelee -->

**Word count**: currently: 5700/7000; limit: 6000/7000

**ABSTRACT**:  (160 words)
Peggy McIntosh characterized privilege as an "invisible knapsack" of unearned advantages. 
Although the invisible knapsack is a useful metaphor, the notion of unearned advantage is not readily appreciated, especially in androcentric geek cultures associated with computers, comics, and gaming.
After providing brief cultural histories of geekdom and privilege, I ask: Why are some geeks resistant to the notion of privilege?
Beyond the observation that privilege often prompts defensiveness and unproductive comparisons, there is a geek-specific reason.
Geek identity is informed by the trope of *geek triumphalism*: early *insecurity* is superseded by a sense of *superiority*.
Geeks' intelligence, unconventional enthusiasms (e.g., technology and fantasy), and idiosyncratic dress were once targets of ridicule, leading geeks to believe they are without privilege.
These same characteristics, later in life, become sources of success and pride, leading them to think they are beyond bias.
Nonetheless, even in the seemingly innocuous realm of idiosyncratic dress, bias and privilege exist.

**Key words**: privilege, geek, feminism, idiosyncrasy, meritocracy

----

# Heading 1

In early 2014, Nate Silver, the analytic whiz behind the site *FiveThirtyEight*, was talking about the site's expansion plans now that it had been purchased by ESPN.
Silver had gained fame by successfully picking baseball players and electoral winners using savvy quantitative analysis; new staff were hired for their ability to emulate his methods.
Although there were some good qualitative journalists at places like *The New York Times*, Silver thought most analysts, columnists, and pundits were "worthless" practitioners of qualitative and "anecdotal" musings [@Dickey2014hfb].

At *FiveThirtyEight*, he hoped his hiring would achieve a "clubhouse chemistry" among journalists that were quantitative, rigorous, and empirical.
Emily Bell [-@Bell2014jsa], a senior journalist writing at *The Guardian*, noted that there were only six women among Silver's 19-person editorial staff: "By the sophisticated math of this pundit---and Silver hates pundits---that is just under over 30%. Minorities---as, after all, women are a majority---are even more poorly served, at *FiveThirtyEight* and elsewhere."
Consequently, Bell believed "journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men."

## Heading 2

In a series of famous essays among geeks, programmer and venture capitalist Paul Graham [-@Graham2003wna;  -@Graham2004gh; -@Graham2004wh] wrote about the identity and behavior of hackers and nerds. 
In a five thousand word essay on "Why Nerds are Unpopular," Graham explained that young nerds fail to appreciate that being popular takes effort.

> Teenage kids pay a great deal of attention to clothes. They don't consciously dress to be popular. They dress to look good. But to who? To the other kids. Other kids' opinions become their definition of right, not just for clothes, but for almost everything they do, right down to the way they walk. And so every effort they make to do things "right" is also, consciously or not, an effort to be more popular. Nerds don't realize this. They don't realize that it takes work to be popular.  [@Graham2003wna]

## Heading 3

In a subsequent interview, Silver offered two lines of defense.
He noted that 85% of applications came from men; "that worries us" and his organization needed to continue to "make sure that we're looking widely for the best possible candidates."
More interestingly, he found Bell's critique upsetting because his allusion to "clubhouse chemistry" was just a baseball reference and "the idea that we're bro-y people just couldn't be more off"  [@SilverCoscarelli2014nsl].
Silver's expression of "bro-y"  refers to a stereotypically macho culture, and it is related to the neologism "brogrammer," which become popular in 2010--2012 and describes programmers who fit the stereotype of the frat-boy more so than that of the quiet nerd.
Silver explained: "We're a bunch of weird nerds. We're outsiders, basically. And so we have people who are gay, people of different backgrounds. I don't know. I found the piece really, really frustrating. And that's as much as I'll say" [@SilverCoscarelli2014nsl].

# References

---
references:
- id: Bell2014jsa
  type: article-newspaper
  author:
  - family: "Bell"
    given: "Emily"
  container-title: "The Guardian"
  custom2: "merit.mm"
  issued:
    year: 2014
    month: 03
    day: 12
  keyword: "privilege"
  title: "Journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men"
  URL: "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/12/journalism-startups-diversity-ezra-klein-nate-silver"
  accessed:
    year: 2016
    month: 09
    day: 15
- id: Dickey2014hfb
  type: article-magazine
  author:
  - family: "Dickey"
    given: "Jack"
  container-title: "Time"
  custom2: "merit.mm"
  issued:
    year: 2014
    month: 03
    day: 06
  keyword: "privilige"
  title: "How the FiveThirtyEight boss picks his employees"
  URL: "http://time.com/12551/nate-silver-fivethirtyeight-hiring/"
  accessed:
    year: 2016
    month: 09
    day: 15
- id: Graham2003wna
  type: post-weblog
  genre: Web log message
  author:
  - family: "Graham"
    given: "Paul"
  custom2: "merit.mm"
  issued:
    year: 2003
    month: 02
    day: 11
  keyword: "geek"
  title: "Why Nerds are Unpopular"
  URL: "http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html"
  accessed:
    year: 2015
    month: 03
    day: 11
- id: Graham2004gh
  type: post-weblog
  genre: Web log message
  abstract: "Reflection on the qualities of great hackers: good tools, space, interesting problems, other good hackers"
  author:
  - family: "Graham"
    given: "Paul"
  custom2: "merit.mm"
  issued:
    year: 2004
    month: 07
    day: 11
  keyword: "geek"
  title: "Great hackers"
  URL: "http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html"
  accessed:
    year: 2015
    month: 03
    day: 11
- id: Graham2004wh
  type: post-weblog
  genre: Web log message
  author:
  - family: "Graham"
    given: "Paul"
  custom2: "merit.mm"
  issued:
    year: 2004
    month: 04
    day: 11
  keyword: "geek"
  title: "The word \'Hacker\'"
  URL: "http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html"
  accessed:
    year: 2015
    month: 03
    day: 11
- id: SilverCoscarelli2014nsl
  type: article-magazine
  author:
  - family: "Silver"
    given: "Nate"
  - family: "Coscarelli"
    given: "Joe"
  container-title: "New York Magazine"
  custom2: "merit.mm"
  issued:
    year: 2014
    month: 03
    day: 13
  keyword: "privilege"
  title: "Nate Silver on the launch of ESPN's new FiveThirtyEight, burritos, and being a fox"
  URL: "http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/nate-silver-interview-fivethirtyeight-espn.html"
  accessed:
    year: 2016
    month: 09
    day: 15

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