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Depending on how much you watch the show, Jersey Shore's transformation of a few unknown guidos and guidettes into an international fame plague was either the best thing or the worst thing ever to happen to entertainment. Now comes the good (or bad) news that the same company that unearthed Snooki and Pauly D is looking to cast some nerds to undergo a similar metamorphosis for a new series called Fandom Rising. Might this be your opportunity to rocket to the heights (or depths) of MTV notoriety? More »
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Now that TLC has presented its fascinating/funny/exploitative portrait of virgins, it's moving on to one of the most commonly mocked segments of our society: Geeks. As a nerd who wishes her fiancé could make such an impressive wookiee noise, I'm certainly not the target audience for this trailer, but I suspect we're supposed to be laughing at the idea of people who love cosplay and Star Wars hoping to find mates. If you've been to a Comic Con event you know TLC definitely could have found people who are weirder than the folks in this clip, but I still fear for my dorky brethren. More »
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If you told 15-year-old me that once you graduate from high school, life becomes a movie where the geek girl achieves more than her tormentors, I doubt I would've believed you. More »
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It's easy to see why this would happen. Many screenwriters who choose to write about high school didn't have a magical four years there and most screenwriters are male. So of course when they write a screenplay about high school, it's going to center around the nerdy guy they feel they were. And in their movie, they are going to get the girl. More »
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Just 15% of Wikipedia contributors are women — and while this may be why Sex and the City gets a shorter entry than The Sopranos (not that we object to that), it has more important implications too. More »
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According to the latest Best of Craigslist, stack-nookie is a recurring dream for many. If only it were just a dream. More »
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"Do you think I'm sexy?" Lady Gaga poses this question in her best rock-arena growl. The Toronto audience, easily 15,000 strong, roars its positive response as she flips back her crayon-yellow hair and semi-pornographically writhes on the floor. More »
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Nerd Girls is currently casting "smart, sexy, and tech savvy" ladies for what promises to be a very-subtle pilot. Interested? If you're willing to embody a vision of both "pink heels" and "pocket protectors," here are the awkward details: More »
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Up in Canada, they're having strip spelling bees. The rules: you can keep your underwear on if you want, no booing, and no audience photography. "I didn't expect that so many participants would get completely naked." [The Globe and Mail] More »
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The best part of My Life As Liz isn't its protagonist. Nor is it the the array of cliches about high school life, complete with evil blondes and school-wide talent shows. It's sidekicks Taylor and Sully. More »
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A bizarre, cougar-themed Halls ad is pissing people off and weirding others out: More »
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At their New Yorker Festival reading on Friday, Junot Diaz and recent MacArthur Genius Grant winner Edwidge Danticat talked about writing with kids, being marginalized as a "nerd of color," and why it's so hard to change the world. More »
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Today, another piece on "geeks getting the girls," nerds being "hot" and general nonsense that equates "intelligence" to "nerd" and acts like a dame giving a man in specs a tumble is some new trend. And it's infuriating: More »
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Being a geek is so hip it's now passe, but girl geeks are still getting a fair amount of press. The problem: we're being woefully misunderstood. More »
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Everyone and their mother, brother, sister, grandma, family dog, pen pal, mailman, paperboy, and Great Aunt Helen is talking about how excited they are to see Star Trek this weekend. Everyone, it seems, except me. More »
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The folks at Wired have compiled a list of the most annoying habits of geeky spouses, and, in a bit of bad news for the majority of our commenters, "punning" takes the number one spot. More »
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Geek chic may be in, but nerds are still uncool, says Lori Kendall, researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More »
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Here at Jezebel, we have a fondness for cloth organs, and are glad to see it's a type of crafting that's really taking off. More »
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• Has Snow White been given a sexy makeover in recent years? • Meanwhile, why doesn't Disney capitalize on its trove of female villains like it has with its princesses? We know some angsty tweens who would love that. • France's Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde, is cool and collected as she prepares for an emergency summit meeting of world leaders in Washington this weekend. • The family of an 11-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome is suing their Manhattan co-op, whicih placed strict conditions on letting the boy get a medically necessary dog despite the co-op's no-pets rule. • More »
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I've decided I like it better when college students write the weekly "Modern Love" columns in the NY Times because college is when you still remember high school, which is when everyone got so goddamned warped re: fucking. (Bonus: they're not about loveless marriages, about which Tolstoy was maybe full of shit.) Anyway, Sunday's installment was by one of those videogame nerds who thought he was undoable until he learned to apply his videogame nerddom to getting girls, at which point he used the power of charming IMs, emails and elaborately orchestrated dates to garner nineteen separate girlfriends until the words "I love you" appeared on his cell phone and somehow impressed upon him that he wasn't playing a videogame anymore! Okay, so: I am actually still meeting dudes like this. Dudes whose spate of adolescent girl rejections are never far from their immediate self-justification mechanism. Dudes who were dorks. Invariably portrayed as endearingly clueless in movies, these dudes in real life, are some of the most self-involved and misanthropic and dangerous (or simply insufferable) to date. More »
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When people first started imploring us to weigh in on the Open Source Boob Project we had this scary image of a website featuring a picture of a pair of fake tits that registered computer programmers could modify and reshape and manipulate with nanotechnology or whatever else until the resultant pair of tits reflected the internet's consensus of the ideal pair of boobs. (The consensus would, of course, change and grow over time, reflecting an anthropological study in the ever-changing depiction of breasts in the media, anime and videogames; that's how the project would get academic funding.) Anyway: why did I give the geeks so much credit? The Open Source Boob Project was actually just a consensual gropeathon that went down at PenguiCon, which is, naturally, a science fiction convention, though its genesis happened at ConFusion, another science fiction convention, when one geek, probably inspired by a booth babe, said to another geek: More »
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Over on Craiglist, our new best-friend-if-we-only-knew-who-she-was, posts the delightful top 15 reasons why geeks and nerds make the best boyfriends More »
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