There is a movement to encourage High School and College students to break stereotypes in the 80s

as well as 90s?

What would it take for us to start seeing a lot of weight lifting jocks who play DnD and Cheerleaders who like Zelda? Don't a lot of these high status students have conservative parents? Would this social movement have to be underground and tell the students to be secretive?

Would it take a push to ban violent video games and comic books as well as cartoons with an alliance of Christian conservatives and nanny state liberals?

Would video games have to have today's graphics to be more mainstream? What would it take to get video games with 2010 graphics in the 80s or 90s? Alien technology found in the 1950s? A humanity more dedicated to technological and social advancement?
 
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Why would someone with the power to start a movement want to get jocks into geek culture? It's not like getting kids off of drugs(ie. something seen as bad) and into studying(ie. something seen as good). More like getting people to wear blue ties instead of green ties(both seen as morally neutral).

Would it take a push to ban violent video games and comic books as well as cartoons with an alliance of Christian conservatives and nanny state liberals?

I'm not sure I see the causality here. Video games, comic books, and cartoons seem, to me anyway, culturally aligned with D & D and Zelda. So how would banning them make jocks want to take up those kinds of activities? Some sort of Forbidden Fruit effect? In my experience, most jocks weren't really drawn to things viewed as culturally transgressive, unless it was drugs or underaged drinking, and even then, it was just the lulz they were after, not any sociopolitical overtones.
 
What would it take for us to start seeing a lot of weight lifting jocks who play DnD and Cheerleaders who like Zelda? Don't a lot of these high status students have conservative parents? Would this social movement have to be underground and tell the students to be secretive?

I think people who were paranoid about DND etc were themselves a pretty small subculture. I grew up in the province known as the Bible Belt of Canada, and even there, I knew lots of kids who were into role-playing games with little visible objection from their parents. I'm sure if you went into church basements in the smaller towns(or even the cities, to some extent), you'd meet people who were worked up about "occultic" entertainment and whatnot, but it certainly didn't stop my school from being flooded with dozens of heavy metal t-shirts every day of the week.

Granted, I went to a Catholic school, whereas anti-occult paranoia tends to be a protestant thing. It might have been a little different in public schools, but I'm guessing not much.
 
I think people who were paranoid about DND etc were themselves a pretty small subculture. I grew up in the province known as the Bible Belt of Canada, and even there, I knew lots of kids who were into role-playing games with little visible objection from their parents. I'm sure if you went into church basements in the smaller towns(or even the cities, to some extent), you'd meet people who were worked up about "occultic" entertainment and whatnot, but it certainly didn't stop my school from being flooded with dozens of heavy metal t-shirts every day of the week.

Granted, I went to a Catholic school, whereas anti-occult paranoia tends to be a protestant thing. It might have been a little different in public schools, but I'm guessing not much.

I think you’re right about the Catholic/Protestant difference. Jack Chick wrote tracts against D&D and the Catholic Church. The same kind of conspiratorial thinking that leads people to the conclusion that D&D is a plot to lead children to Satan can also lead people to believe that the Catholic Church killed JFK (Jack Chick said both things). I think people who believe these kind of conspiracy theories would probably tend to leave Catholicism because they don’t trust authority (which is usually a good trait, but not when it leads to hate).
 
I think you're overestimating how closely people conformed to stereotypes in the 1980s. I'm sure every young person kind of liked video games when they had access to one. Plenty of people who liked science and math were also interested in sports, and plenty of people who liked Dungeons and Dragons were also interested in hard rock music, just like now. If you want modern "Geek-Chic" to start earlier, you can follow what happened in the 21st century. Better marketing, high-quality movies about "nerdy things", greater access to "nerdy things", and ideally, better technology.
It's more a marketing campaign than a movement.
 
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