Anonymous Patron writes “ABC News Reports Suddenly, It’s Hip to Be Square-
Whatever the reason, being a nerd, a geek, a dork whatever you want to call the tragically unhip is becoming a source of pride.
Michael Lee, a self-proclaimed nerd, is happy it’s happening. “It’s society validating who I am,” says the 28-year-old marketing manager from in Perris, Calif.
But he also worries that the popularity will be short-lived, returning he and fellow nerds to a life of ridicule. “Because it is a trend,” he says, “it’ll become extremely untrendy.”
For now, though, he’s going with it and has put a bumper sticker on his motorcycle that says “Talk Nerdy To Me” so he attracts the kind of women he’s looking for “a librarian type girl,” who likes to go to bookstores and art galleries and whose eyes don’t glaze over when he starts talking about the finer points of “Babylon 5” or “Battlestar Galactica.”
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My eyes are rolling now. It’s always been ok to search out librarian type of people – we aren’t so easy to stereotype as this guy implied.”
Dorks United
My eyes are rolling now. It’s always been ok to search out librarian type of people – we aren’t so easy to stereotype as this guy implied.”
Exactly, B5, BSG? He gets points for the latter, but those in the know realize B5 is old hat, the new hotness is Firefly.
He has a point in chatting up librarians. They are some of the hippest, most awesomely beautiful people out there. But this coolness is also counterbalanced by the fact that, of all the lovely librarians I know, 98.53% are already taken. For a geek, he doesn’t seem to be very knowledgeable about statistics.
Firefly?
Firefly! That is so old hat. Yeah, it’s being shown in its entirety, in order, on SciFi but the movie, Serenity, is what is really happening! It is the TV show, plus the comics, combined on the silver screen. And it is purty enough you don’t have to be a geek or nerd or librarian to love it.
Re:Firefly?
This whole story is so old hat. I remember a story about geeks being the new thing like ten years ago. I wish I could remember the magazine. It was a newsweekly, and Bill Gates was on the cover.
Sometime pre-1995, it was the fashion in NYC for models and movie star types to wear glasses with plain lenses (that is, no prescription) and carry a book around with them. Not only did I see articles about that, I also asked some cutie in a bar what he thought about Cousin Bette. The answer was clearly remarkably little.
Meanwhile, it appears that high schools still treat geeks as vomitous, so we will have a steady supply of disaffected losers to join us true geeks in libraryland.