Post reblogged from Love & Radiation
Everybody gets to be nerds if they wanna be nerds.
I’ve written before on why the whole nerds whining about nerd cred is tedious and totally beside the point. Nerd cred, by their definition, is all about pettiness, exclusion, and impermeable social isolation from the mainstream. So I accept the definition I see in their actions, if not their rhetoric:
A nerd is someone who cares so much about being defined as such that they reject people with similar interests so as not to sully their nerd reputations and dilute the waters of nerddom.
There you go, nerds! Cred restored! Hope you’re having fun excluding potential friends with similar interests!
Source: love-and-radiation
