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    Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?

    4 Tips For Understanding "Girl Geeks"

    I'm Not Handing In My Geek Card, I'm Just Letting It Rest For A Second

    When Loving A Geek Means Loving Their Annoying Habits

    Nerds Vs. Geeks

    Why America Should Be Thankful Those Nice Cops Didn't Send Star Simpson Straight To The Morgue

    American Apparel Ad-Mimickry Gains Popularity in the nation whose sweatshops are losing jobs to their highly-paid Mexicans

    Getting down to some dirty Geek lovin'.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    Star Trek fans are NOT nerds or geeks.

    They are DORKS.

    I am married to a DORK, who lives for Star Trek, Star Wars, Battledork Gallectica (oh, how said he is about that being over and done) and graphic novels.

    The differences are very important here.
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    08/19/09

    @NewsBunny: Although I was once forced attend an actual stamp convention at Madison Square Garden. That's nerd. I have never seen so many nerds in my life in one place. Sweater vests, pleated pants, and glasses galore. Even several instances of glasses mended with tape. I shit you not.

    He also collects coins.

    So I guess my husband is a Dork/Nerd hybrid. A Nerk?
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    Image of itsonreserve itsonreserve
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    Did it ever occur to these people that Woody Allen has been getting laid since the sixties?
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    This is only supporting my theory that the absolute worst thing anyone can think you are in this country is stupid. Everything else pales.
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    Image of Dauphine Dauphine
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    Just think of the articles as using "geek" in the original parlance: because biting the heads off of chickens is so hot.
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    08/19/09

    @Dauphine: Always gotten my off. Especially since they usually did it for a fifth of cheap whiskey. So sexy.
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    Stupid with glasses is still stupid.

    When I said I liked smart guys I didn't mean guys with glasses, I meant guys who read something other than comics once in a while.
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    08/19/09

    @Mafalda para Presidente: In the words of Milhouse: "I'm not a nerd! Nerds are smart."
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    Image of onthecornerofparkerandwoolf onthecornerofparkerandwoolf
    08/19/09

    @Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: "i'm not a smart nerd, i'm just a weak nerd." oh milhouse-- how i love thee.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    The next trend: Shiek Chic. Rich oil billionaires from the middle east bedding the hottest women. Fashionheads the world over dressing like the cast of Lawrence of Arabia. And geeks returning to their rightful place, in my high school locker.
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    Image of Stagtasticfantastic Stagtasticfantastic
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    I'm praying my boyfriend is a whole lot dumber than he seems -- or at least his sperm is.

    Maybe since he's a brainy (former) jock, I can get the brains AND the bad baby-making skills?
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    08/19/09

    @Stagtasticfantastic: Just tell him to smoke a ton of pot and go for long bicycle rides. Reduce the ol' sperm count.
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    Image of clintosterholz clintosterholz
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    FUCK I hate these goddamn articles. Also, that dude you used for the article? He is hot. He is a model wearing square glasses. They never show pics of the neckbeards wearing a "Lord of the Onion Rings" T-shirt.
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    Image of lecoqsportif lecoqsportif
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    It seems like this whole trend is about money/power. One could argue that the rise of "geek chic" has mirrored deindustrialization. tech boom, quantitative finance, and moneyball management have all favored intellect over the "traditional" attractive traits of confidence and social presence. hence geeks have monitary potential, hence geeks are "chic." oh, and that makes the trend piece about 15 years late.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    Geeks don't believe in "chic."
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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    08/19/09

    @NefariousNewt: You've been looking in my closet, haven't you?
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/19/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: Not at all. Look, first off, the word "geek" is bandied about too liberally, as if every nut with a Blackberry or a Wii is somehow technologically astute. Second, anyone who actually has "geek cred" (another phrase I dearly loathe), doesn't go about talking about their "geek cred." Third, geeks are sterotypically considered male, but I went to college with female geeks, and even dated a couple -- we don't need to chase after "babes" to have relationships.
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    08/19/09

    @NefariousNewt: What cheek! In a fit of pique, I, a geek, without a shriek or the squeak of the meek, took some critique and made myself a bit sleek - just a minor tweak, nothing to do with my physique, but now I look less like a freak, so to speak.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/19/09

    @andBegorrah: And yet don't you dread, that your cred may be dead, having been fed these lies that have been said?!?!? What led, in your head, to have fled from the last shred of your cred? How many tears must be shed now that you have been so bled?
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    08/19/09

    @andBegorrah: I find your need to tweak a bit bleak. But I hope you find what you seek and at least you no longer reek.
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    How do they think it happened that nerds roam the earth today if no-one had sex with them till now?
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    Image of sportz.star sportz.star
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    We all know that smart is decidedly not sexy -- when it's a woman. That's why Miranda scored when she said she was a flight attendant instead of a lawyer. Of course, moral was she scored with a moron, but still.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    08/19/09

    @sportz.star: That.
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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    But where are all the nerd girls? The geek girls? It's still all about "hot" girls dating super smart guys, which then makes it okay for them to be non-mainstream.

    It's still not okay to be a "nerd" girl, or a "geek" girl because it's not equated with conventional "hotness". So being a smart woman is still the anti-sexy, and being a "geeky" one means you're nigh unto invisible.

    Awesome.
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    08/19/09

    @tiredfairy: If you wear stilettos and a bikini with your horn-rimmed glasses, you can be a hot nerd girl.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    08/19/09

    @ihateyourescalade: What about sexy librarians with ample clevage?
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    08/19/09

    @morninggloria: ample cleavage wins everytime, nerd girl or not...which sucks for the rest of us blessed with booty and nothing to fill our bras but kleenex.
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    Image of xuatastic xuatastic
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    um i find christopher hitchens kind of hot. Yeah i don't get it either
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    Image of Stagtasticfantastic Stagtasticfantastic
    08/19/09

    @xuatastic: I think I do as well. At least sometimes. My boyfriend has a definite crush on Hitchens, even since he saw his FoxNews Jerry Falwell is dead and I still won't say one single platitude about how it's a shame, so shut up Hannity clip on youtube. He's SUCH an asshole, and yet it's so beautiful.
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    08/19/09

    @Stagtasticfantastic: I just watched that. Thank you for making my afternoon.
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    Image of theartinyourparty theartinyourparty
    08/19/09

    In reply to Let's Have A Moratorium On "Geek Chic" Trend Pieces, Okay?
    I'll take Rahm Emanuel with his aggressive eyebrows and dance degree.
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    Rooo sez BISH PLZ promoted this comment theartinyourparty was starred theartinyourparty was unstarred
    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    08/19/09

    @agrippa: Hello! Rahm's people probably breathed a sigh of relief when he pimped someone else for the list; that would mean they wouldn't get more fan mail and instead could deal with the reams they already have. Bullet successfully dodged.
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    Image of theartinyourparty theartinyourparty
    08/19/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: I want to know how they approached him with this question without anyone feeling awkward.
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