Lies Beautiful People Tell...About Nerds

Yes, I’ll admit, I am a bit of a science, tech, and comics-&-animation nerd. For a while there, I boycotted the term “nerd” when sexy, physically attractive and hideously shallow female pop tarts started using that term to describe themselves and their mates. That was the gayest shit I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen a few idiots (“The Beautiful People”) fuck up such a great and appealing word (“Nerd”) in horrible and horribly gay TV—The Big Bang Theory, certain neo-alterative musicians, pop music, the press, porn actresses, “Teen Hollywood” MTV, VH1, Disney Channel, and G4—in such a short amount of time. When stuff like that was on TV, I disowned my nerd roots. I boycotted that term (“Geek” in particular), just like I boycotted “Designer”. Attractive, ignorant jocks and preps like the kinds in those shows make being a nerd (and at times, a designer as well) so uncool. With them, it’s a fashion statement. It’s shallow. It’s the verbal and categorical equivalent of fashion runway model. Just a lot of beautiful and dumb fucks trying to be “cool” by doing what is “marketable and trendy and marketing approved”. That’s like Chris Rock saying he’s a "civil rights" activist because he's a black actor who "just happens to take nothing seriously, including civil rights!". Just a sad, sad, very sad attempt on behalf of someone trying to be either something they’re not, or something deeper than they are in reality. I don’t see Bill Gates or Steve Jobs proclaiming themselves to be nerds, even though they’re big time nerds. You don’t get the shallowness and creepy “nothing underneath” vibe from Gates and Jobs though.