"Fake geek girls" debunked

j_bark
j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
in Chit-Chat
These guys do a great job explaining the myth.

SWIW #3: "Fake Geek Girls" - Fact? Or Fiction?: http://youtu.be/k8LFfDbPmD4

Just so you know.. I <3 you Geek Girls
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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    No clue what that is about, but I just think all Forest Gump about it, Geek is, as geek does. Who cares if they aren't geek enough for you. At least they are trying.

    Pffftttt...geek purists as funny as hero /b/tards.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    I play some video games, watch some anime and read some comics, but only specific ones, and only because I enjoy them. I can't imagine having to step up my geek game in order to fit into some stupid subculture. I'm much happier playing my 3DS on my boyfriend's couch while he's on the Playstation. Who cares what anyone else thinks?
  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
    Geek is as geek does...

    Basically sums up their point. To each their own. Be yourself and the cards will fall because gravity.
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    I :heart: this!!!!
  • LifeOfBrian78
    LifeOfBrian78 Posts: 397 Member
    I've never understood this whole myth.
  • sheenarama
    sheenarama Posts: 733 Member
    I don't like being labeled.
  • Shalaurise
    Shalaurise Posts: 707 Member
    My mini-me labels me all the time. We have had to stop buying her stickers because she was labeling everyone and everything.

    I don't claim being a geek of my own accord. In fact I regularly claim not be to smart enough to be one, but he hubbs insists that I am wrong and that I am very much a geek. *shrugs* and really, who cares what some you tube thing says. Hubbs opinion matters more than that. *nods*
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    Those guys are closet-twerkers... I DO remember talking about LOTR in the 80's..... and D&D and my first major was Computer Science/Systems Design, minor in Math..... Oh well..... I should NOT read these forums... must hold my tongue because i am hoping most people on MFP are here with GOOD INTENTIONS.. :) Great day, Nerds or Geeks or whatever
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    I've been using this screen name on various websites for almost ten years now. I'm still surprised when I get an unsolicited PM suggesting I'm not "really" a geek or that I'm "probably just a redditor or something." It's especially sad on dating websites.

    Thanks for the video.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Those guys are closet-twerkers... I DO remember talking about LOTR in the 80's..... and D&D and my first major was Computer Science/Systems Design, minor in Math..... Oh well..... I should NOT read these forums... must hold my tongue because i am hoping most people on MFP are here with GOOD INTENTIONS.. :) Great day, Nerds or Geeks or whatever

    Did we watch the same video? Because I feel like we took very different messages away from it.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I don't care if they're fake or not, as long as they watch Ninja Turtles with me, I'm good.
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    I don't care if they're fake or not, as long as they watch Ninja Turtles with me, I'm good.

    Which Ninja Turtles?
  • JustinAnimal
    JustinAnimal Posts: 1,335 Member
    Anyone ever see American Splendor? The movie about a comic writer (not cartoonist) who kind of sucks at everything and has the ultimate geek friend. Like, such a legitimate geek. He was a real person and his voice was Hank Azaria's inspiration for the voice of comic book guy on The Simpsons. Anyway, there's a part in the movie where he expresses that he's proud to be a nerd and goes to see this upcoming movie called "Revenge of the Nerds." Harvey Pekar (the main character) gets really pissed, because those guys weren't nerds at all, certainly not like his legitimately nerd friend. They were actors and if you're on a screen, yes, even if you're Booger, you're not that ugly or nerdy or truly whatever to be really outcast by "the jocks" or normal society or whoever.

    It's like when American geeky guys who like manga call themselves otaku, a term which carries some pretty serious weight and implications in Japan (or at least used to, as it was explained to me).

    Anyway, I think true geeks get pretty cheesed off when very attractive women put on some horn-rimmed glasses, a cut-off batman shirt, and daisy dukes, and call themselves nerds. I think they feel that, just because you like any really mainstream superhero (like just about anything Marvel or D.C. these days, due to all of the movies), you aren't a nerd. Nerds speak Klingon or Tengwar and live with their mothers and can cite the years each Final Fantasy game was released and what their release number was in the U.S. and Japan and they dress like Dr. Who when no ones around, etc.

    It's just not a black and white issue. There are degrees of nerdiness, people!
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I don't care if they're fake or not, as long as they watch Ninja Turtles with me, I'm good.

    Which Ninja Turtles?

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  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    I feel like geek is a spectrum. For example. My friend thinks I'm insane because I have star wars, batman, pokeman, and serenity themed tattoos. In turn, I think my other friend is a bit nuts because she hand designs her cosplay costumes.

    I've gotten crap before because my lightsaber tattoo isn't "proportional" or "Prefectly accurate" and therefore I only like Star Wars because...-insert stupid reason here-. Whatever. To some people, I'm incredibly geeky, to others I'm not at all. Sliding scale. I like what I like. Deal.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I feel like geek is a spectrum. For example. My friend thinks I'm insane because I have star wars, batman, pokeman, and serenity themed tattoos. In turn, I think my other friend is a bit nuts because she hand designs her cosplay costumes.

    I've gotten crap before because my lightsaber tattoo isn't "proportional" or "Prefectly accurate" and therefore I only like Star Wars because...-insert stupid reason here-. Whatever. To some people, I'm incredibly geeky, to others I'm not at all. Sliding scale. I like what I like. Deal.

    if it doesn't glow, it's not worth it.
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    I don't care if they're fake or not, as long as they watch Ninja Turtles with me, I'm good.

    Which Ninja Turtles?

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    This is acceptable.
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    I read this as "Fake gReek girls"...

    Anyway, carry on.
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    I feel like geek is a spectrum. For example. My friend thinks I'm insane because I have star wars, batman, pokeman, and serenity themed tattoos. In turn, I think my other friend is a bit nuts because she hand designs her cosplay costumes.

    I've gotten crap before because my lightsaber tattoo isn't "proportional" or "Prefectly accurate" and therefore I only like Star Wars because...-insert stupid reason here-. Whatever. To some people, I'm incredibly geeky, to others I'm not at all. Sliding scale. I like what I like. Deal.

    if it doesn't glow, it's not worth it.


    I was going to put the glow in th dark ink around the edge of it, but I have nerve damage on that leg and I don't want to mess with it anymore :(
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I don't care if they're fake or not, as long as they watch Ninja Turtles with me, I'm good.

    Which Ninja Turtles?

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    This is acceptable.

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  • MarshallLuke
    MarshallLuke Posts: 177 Member
    I once knew a fake geek girl. Don't get me wrong, she was a total geek, but she was actually a robot.
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    I once knew a fake geek girl. Don't get me wrong, she was a total geek, but she was actually a robot.


    I just laughed pretty audibly and my coworkers think I'm insane now.
  • Kabiti
    Kabiti Posts: 191 Member
    I was a geek when it wasn't cool to be one. Truthfully, though, I couldn't care less about cosplaying or comic books (and never have). I really don't even care about video games any more. Anime / manga I like because I like cartoons but I watch TV with real people and read more literary books. Life got in the way, I guess.

    STEM stuff, though? Yeah... I like those.

    I prefer to just be me and like what I like... no need to call me names :P
  • katew221
    katew221 Posts: 82 Member
    Maybe nerds and geeks have been materialised, like other subcultures. Hey, if it helps Marvel sell more T-shirts right? My friend and I look really "normal" and yet we are both nerdy about many many things. I think you can usually tell apart those who are born geeks and those who have adopted it as a look. Neither is better or worse than the other, we just are who we all are :)

    Funnily enough, you can usually tell the native geek from the invasive species because they will actually shy away from being called, or calling themselves, a nerd or a geek, because they will have grown up with the shame and mockery of being passionate about the 'wrong' thing, as with my friend and I. A 'new geek' however will wear their specs and batman t shirt as a badge of honour, and maybe that's not a bad thing... Embrace the geek!
  • _Pseudonymous_
    _Pseudonymous_ Posts: 1,671 Member
    I'm sorry, I don't get why this even matters. If a person wants to claim to be a geek then who cares? They will only eventually embarrass themselves. They only hurt themselves. I don't understand why anyone would put so much effort into hating a group of people for thinking that something they liked was cool. Watches Star Trek but can't speak Klingon?! HERETIC!!!

    I'm sorry. I just don't get it. Be whoever, like whatever. Don't worry about other people and enjoy life.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I was a geek when it wasn't cool to be one.

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  • phantasmagical
    phantasmagical Posts: 66 Member
    Eh. I'm holding out for the Toast episode. And if you call me a fake geek girl, I'll just laugh at you, and you'll be right back where you started before a critical mass of general America realized smart people are cool: single and stinky.
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  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    What I don't like about these things is the thing that it's still all about dating these 'geek girls', real or fake.

    How 'bout we, as women, dressing up for fun? Or we genuinely like those things WITHOUT having the need for approval by males who may or may not like those things? Or how about we just let people call themselves what they want without even having to approach the reasons for why they may be at these conventions?

    It's tired. It's old. And frankly, the majority of geek girls don't care what geek guys think about them.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I'm sorry, I don't get why this even matters. If a person wants to claim to be a geek then who cares? They will only eventually embarrass themselves. They only hurt themselves. I don't understand why anyone would put so much effort into hating a group of people for thinking that something they liked was cool. Watches Star Trek but can't speak Klingon?! HERETIC!!!

    I'm sorry. I just don't get it. Be whoever, like whatever. Don't worry about other people and enjoy life.

    I'm gonna weigh in, and not to argue, but just to present a different perspective. And it's not relating specifically to women at all.

    I loved comic books when I was a kid. Because I liked comic books I was beat up on a regular basis. Literally. Groups of bigger kids would knock them out of my hands and beat me to the ground, because I liked comic books.

    Now that the movies are popular, those exact same guys are walking around in Iron Man t-shirts. If you ask them they'll freely admit they've never read a comic and never would, they just like it because it's cool now.

    So, as someone who paid a price for the things I like, F those people! You don't get to put something down as lame and for nerds only, until it gets popular, and then claim it as your own. It's not like they had a revelation and changed their ways, they're just glomming onto what is now a trend. I have zero respect for that.

    Yea, people's opinions can never change! You tell them!

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