Fake Geek Girls
Apparently, the world is abuzz because there’s a meme about a “Fake Geek Girl”. And now all these geek women are mad, I guess because guys don’t want to let them in the “geek” club (insinuating that there’s no way they’re REALLY geeks). Buzzfeed has a whole “article” about it here.
They’ve got it all wrong.
The Fake Geek Girl meme wasn’t created to call out women geeks. It’s making fun of women who obviously are NOT geeks who SAY they’re geeks so that geek guys will like them. See, they’re so “hot” that normally, geek guys wouldn’t even bother fantasizing about them. Totally unattainable. But someone like Megan Fox says she like Star Wars or something like that, or Katy Perry saying she farts in bed… well, NOW “they’re like me! Geeky!” They’re attainable. So, instead of just the jocks and burnouts and everybody else thinking she’s hot, now she’s got EVERYBODY fawning over her.
THAT is a fake geek girl.
Now, what Buzzfeed is talking about? A real geek girl? I’m down with that. We all are. Just don’t say that you like geeky things just because you think that’s what I want to hear.
I think people need to stop with this. Seriously. We don’t need some big Nerd War going on.
I’m a girl. I like nerdy/geeky things. I get super excited over things in which I am super excited about. There are likely people in the world that would like to tell me I’m not really a nerd girl and to stop being a poser for a wide variety of reasons. But I like what I like and that’s just about it.
I don’t cosplay but that’s only because it doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t have a need to do that. But I’m not going to make fun of or point out those that do. Despite my gut reaction to want to when I see girls cosplaying in very little clothing. But, hey, if that’s how they want to express themselves, go for it. I shouldn’t let that define ME in anyway. It’s all them.
Aren’t most of us nerds/geeks because we don’t really fit in any where else? Why should we sit back and judge who can or cannot fit in to this label? I don’t know what these so called “Fake Geek Girls” true motivation is and I’m not going to assume anything. But I’m not going to immediately be all “You’re a poser.”
It all just seems kinda silly to me. Why should any of us let anyone else take away how we feel about the way in which we define ourselves just because they don’t do it the “right way.” You know?
I dunno. The Fake Geek Girl thing bugs me. Because I do feel there is an underlying sexism at play. But that’s just me.