Sexy Nerds

Let's just clear this up. 

They don't exist.

I'm sorry, folks, but the words "nerd" and "sexy", as they're traditionally understood, are mutually exclusive. 

One negates the other. 

I don't care if you're a wand-making, num chuck-wielding, Smeagol impersonator, 

if you're confident, beautiful and unashamed, 

you're not a "nerd". 

The confusion lies in the stigma that certain obsessions fall within a nerd framework of sorts. 

Whereas say, tennis, is cool, 

chain mail making is not. 

But the real old fashioned "nerd" was not a G4 gamer babe, or a painfully good looking actor who's secretly good at math, or a beautiful bohemian chainmail artist.  

No, "nerd" was once synonymous with social incompetence and ostracization.

So why this cultural shift? Why has dorkdom become an ideal? Why has labeling oneself a "nerd" become a fashion statement of sorts, when it used to cause such shame?

Is this that same irony that we talked about before? Did a nervous joke become a social movement? Are we really so defensive that we feel a need to announce our dorkdom aggressively in order to avoid being accused of it further down the the road?

Or maybe it's as simple as a language deficiency. Maybe "nerd" has culturally evolved from "socially incompetent outcast" into "passionate advocate", in which case we're missing a key English descriptor. 

If "Nerd" has been co-opted by the mainstream, 
how do we describe the Urkels and the Schrutes of the world?!??

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And what about those OCD Lord of the Rings spell-casting folks,
who also really like to be social?

Cheers.

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