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What is a Geek?


Personally I have never described myself as such but many have described me this way.  I don’t think I am overly Geeky but alas names such as ‘The Queen of Geeks’ I have been labelled with, I don’t think I am worthy of such a crown.  Also when did it become cool to be thought of as a Geek or a Nerd?  I am certainly positive that the people wandering around with it labelled on their t-shirts are certainly not Geeks, as if you would need that constant kind of reminder or to be able to tell the world.  This is not the attire I think that Geeks or Nerds choose.

Apparently being Geeky is having a passion about something that you then of course know a lot about and being a non-conformist.  If this is the case anybody can be a Geek.  My boyfriend tries to tell me we are geeks as we love our comic book heroes, our computer games and certain subjects we’re passionate about.  Is having a print of Iron Man above your fireplace
 
or Transformer prints in your alcove
 

 
 
or Dangermouse on your sideboard
 

 

 
 or even a Batman themed bathroom Geeky?
 

 Do we have such programs like ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to thank for the new Geeky Coolness or has this been a long time coming and a transition process.  Mentioning The Big Bang Theory, they mention that it is an evolutionary step.  Where once we were hunter gatherers, we needed to be strong and so we adapted to ‘the survival of the fittest’ now it is turning in a different direction and brains are the new brawn.  Saying this I don’t think you necessarily have to be a brainiac to be a geek but you do to be a nerd.

 In conclusion I think everybody has a little geek inside them whether they like it or not hurrah!
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