"Fake Geek Girls"

I just read the most moronic article about something I've never even heard of. The Fake Geek Girl. I didn't even know this was a thing. Apparently they're chicks out there faking being a geek. Not because they like being socially ostracized, which was my initial thought, but because somewhere along the line it became COOL.

First of all, WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!? I've been freakishly obsessed with Lord of the Rings for YEARS. Heck, I plan on going to see the Hobbit and walking out in awe and busting people's ears with fan girl screams. I was the 8 year old tomboy who obsessed over video games instead of clothes and make up, and I'm SO thrilled I missed the boat on that one, because I look like a bumbling idiot trying to figure out how to look feminine at 18 years old. I'm currently nuts about old school adventure games. No, not just Zelda, though I love the Zelda series with every fiber of my being. No, the 80's -90's TEXT ADVENTURES AND POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE GAMES. Yeah, a lot of people share that hobby, I assure you. It never made me cool. It got me laughed at and now I'm socially awkward.

I will never understand society. Being a geek/nerd/dork IS NOT NOW NOR HAS IT EVER BEEN POPULAR. Maybe a couple of fandoms got lucky, but none of mine ever did. Except maybe Lord of the Rings. But that's just because it's Lord of the Rings.

What does "geek" really mean anyway? Are we really just using it to describe comic book fanatics? Because there are so many better things to obsess over, and I've already described most of them two paragraphs ago.


These rants about fake geek girls are being written by 40 year old men who can't stand that suddenly there's some babes, few and far between, who like all those dumb superhero movies coming out now, or who dare to play a first person shooter. They're so unused to getting attention from women they don't know how to handle it. No, these girls are not faking it for men. I would LOVE to have a guy, but I love men less than I hate comic books and first person shooters. I hate all those "Yesss, I'm a girl who plays Call of Duty" facebook pages and whatnot because they're repetitive and obnoxious, but they aren't faking it. Liking some of that mess is to boring to someone who really doesn't care to bother faking enjoyment.

Girls have better things to do than pretend to like things for men.

I don't get the fuss. So they're upset about a stinkin LABEL?! Does it have to be exclusive to men?! Are men really getting upset because some poor misguided girls are fascinated by Batman for some reason?

This whole thing is made up. There's the exact same number of people who can honestly be classified under geek as there was a couple years ago, the only difference is that some of them are women who aren't afraid to hide it. It's just morons flipping out because they now have no excuse for not having a girlfriend, BECAUSE GIRLS CAN LIKE NERDY THINGS TOO.

Whatever. Wake me up when my hobbies become cool. Oh, wait, they probably never will be. And I'm cool with that. I'll tell you one thing though, if they suddenly did become popular, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO PEOPLE.

I'm totally aware I might not have proved any sort of point, because I'm not sure what the point was in the first place. Maybe it's that geeks, no matter the gender or fandom, should be proud that they aren't afraid to like something different, and that if it suddenly becomes popular, DON'T GET UPSET, because that makes zero sense. You know what happens to fandoms with no popularity? All the fans starve to death and are left unsatisfied. SO BE THANKFUL.

So I'll just sit here and wait for the day when Monkey Island regains enough popularity and support for Ron Gilbert to make his true Monkey Island 3, because me and bunch of middle aged guys wanna know the true secret of Monkey Island.

That will be all.