Geek Pride
Yes, I object. I object to the statement made by my dear husband, HeGeek, in his last post. We are NOT all geeks. Not even close. In fact, I must say that I am tired of all the so-called geeks out there – the wanna-be geeks who are the diet coke of geek – just one calorie, not geeky enough!!
It wasn’t long ago that being a “geek” was a bad thing. People spat it out as if it was an insult, snickering and giggling and making fun of us as we walked by. Unless of course, they needed something, and then they’d be nice – really really nice – just long enough to get what they wanted.
Being a geek is chic now, so everyone wants to be a geek. It doesn’t work like that, yo. You must have some sort of techy, geeky component to your “geekness” or you are definitely not a geek. Do you know Unix like I know Unix? Can you program in 10 languages and are learning 3 more, just for fun? Can you normalize a database or hand tag HTML? Can you build your own PC or create a home network? These are geeky things. These things make you a geek.
Being obsessive about Star Wars to the point where you can speak Klingon does NOT make you a geek. It makes you really really odd, but not a geek. You can know every single Heisman winner and how many of those guys went on to play basketball or how many also won the Walter Camp Award, but you are a Sports Trivia Buff but NOT. A. GEEK.
Science geeks…maybe…but certainly and most definitely NOT…Bacon Geek. NO! Bacon does not make you a geek – no offense to the bacon geek, but dood, you don’t qualify as a geek simply because you know a pig-load full of information about all things bacon. You are a guy who knows a lot about bacon. NOT. A. GEEK.
If you don’t understand my rant, you are not a geek. If you are one of those peripheral wanna-be geeks – look – we can’t all be millionaires, we can’t all be beautiful, and we can’t all be geeks.
Love us. Covet us. Worship us if you must. But understand – you aren’t a geek, but we love you anyway.
