WTF - Geeks

Since when did geeks become cool? I had to spend all my geek years feeling awkward and uncomfortable, and now when I've finally outgrown it, it's suddenly become hip! The whole point of being geeky is that people make fun of you. Without that, you might as well be a regular person.

Okay, so I can see how some people might have personality quirks they feel self-conscious about, and yes, it's more honest to admit them first yourself rather than posturing and acting like you're cool and coming off like a tool in the end. It's also damage control, because it's far more embarrassing to be found out that you were posturing than to be upfront about your quirks.

The point is that we all have these insecurities. Does that mean we're all geeks? Of course not. So why don't we just agree that unless you're one of those extreme cases of goth-polyamorous-mantra-chanting-Renaissance-fair-going-science-fiction-reading, in short WEIRD, like, druid-types, you're not a geek? Let's reserve the designation for the truly deserving, and hate on geeks they way we used to.

Why this sudden animosity? Geeks have screwed me over. If it weren't for them, no one would have made Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a major release movie that an unsuspecting iinnocent like me could have stumbled into. GOD AWFUL. Only a geek could love it.