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25th August 2011

Link reblogged from Tankboy with 120 notes

Tankboy: The likelihood that you are *actually* a nerd is pretty fucking slim. →

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staceyjoy:

I met a girl this past weekend who described herself as “OMG THE MOST EPIC NERD” - when she was anything and everything but. She chose “nerdy” as a self-descriptor to appeal to boys because she read something that said that “nerds are going to be hot.”

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You know what? I…

There are “nerdy” things that are still uncool today, just somewhat different things than in the past. For “nerdy” teenagers of any kind, probably not much has changed. Yeah, maybe on the internet you get cool points for knowing the names and hometowns of 25 Pitchfork writers but the majority of people still have no idea who Arcade Fire are (personal example but also goes for all other “nerdy” culture that has become cool - pretty sure that despite presence of a gaming store in Williamsburg, D&D is still not a socially accepted pastime for adolescents.) Things that it’s ok to be “nerdy” about: Harry Potter, Facebook, reality shows, maybe some mainstream sci-fi/action movies, being “anti-social” or “introverted”. You know what is still, even within the “nerdy” hipster subculture, definitely NOT cool? Caring about things. It’s cool that I can make a clever reference to a band that is popular on the internet, but the fact that I can talk for an hour about their motivation for writing their album while listing specific details in a way that can only mean I have spent at least an entire evening reading about them when I could have been like, watching Jersey Shore, is still not cool. Liking anything too much is also still not cool.

And thus I do not find it an exaggeration to label myself as a nerd, albeit an overly self-conscious (and probably self-obsessed) one. 

Tagged: Ranting.Nerds.Reading does not make you a nerd - it makes you literate.

Source: staceyjoy

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    nerd.” Sing it, sister.
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    much better than
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    We are dangerously close to telling “it was so hard back then” stories where we describe how hard it was back then to...
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  13. neveralovelysoreal reblogged this from staceyjoy and added:
    weird telling people what they are and are not, especially with an identity category as fluid as “nerd.” Also, I never...
  14. heyexit reblogged this from agrammar and added:
    A snark is cheap and any more than one in a while can get tiresome, but oh god it’s so true lol.
  15. asteakandmilkshake reblogged this from maura and added:
    What about people who self-identify as popular, but they’re really unhappy? Oh.
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    Quoted for truth, basically. One of my first posts here was quoting Tessa Strain on, basically, the way that nerds grow...
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    People’s kids are going...be so unimpressed...these new...
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    I… There are “nerdy” things that are still uncool today, just somewhat different things than