Revenge of the Nerdette

WELL! MY HOMY/BEST FRIEND MICHAEL, TOLD ME BACK IN 2001: "BROTHER MANNY! YOU
TAKE ONE OF THEM GEEKY, NERDY SCHOOL GIRLS AND LET THEM TAKE THEIR HAIR DOWN
AND TAKE-OFF THEIR GLASSES, AND THEY LOOK FINE LIKE A MOTHER******!! HE WAS NOT
KIDDING ME! I'VE DATED SOME FINE GEEKY, NERDY WOMEN, CAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES MOST
MEN REFUSE TO ASK OUT ON DATES, GET INTO RELATIONSHIPS WITH, AND SO ON! THEY ARE
JUST AS FREAKY AS THEM HOOCHIE-MAMAS!! TRUST ME! EVEN MORE! I SUGGEST TO ALL YOU
GENTLEMEN OUT THERE: GET YOURSELF A GEEKY GIRL! THEY WILL LOVE YOU!! XOXO. MANNY.

WELL! MY HOMY/BEST FRIEND MICHAEL, TOLD ME BACK IN 2001: "BROTHER MANNY! YOU
TAKE ONE OF THEM GEEKY, NERDY SCHOOL GIRLS AND LET THEM TAKE THEIR HAIR DOWN
AND TAKE-OFF THEIR GLASSES, AND THEY LOOK FINE LIKE A MOTHER******!! HE WAS NOT
KIDDING ME! I'VE DATED SOME FINE GEEKY, NERDY WOMEN, CAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES MOST
MEN REFUSE TO ASK OUT ON DATES, GET INTO RELATIONSHIPS WITH, AND SO ON! THEY ARE
JUST AS FREAKY AS THEM HOOCHIE-MAMAS!! TRUST ME! EVEN MORE! I SUGGEST TO ALL YOU
GENTLEMEN OUT THERE: GET YOURSELF A GEEKY GIRL! THEY WILL LOVE YOU!! XOXO. MANNY.

Too all the jealous comments: what is wrong with ALL YOU JEALOUS WOMEN" do you really see yourselves as beautiful, smart and SEXY!!!, or are you all full of ugly inside and out? lighten up, and get Intelligent, Beautiful, Hott , and Sexy in your lives~ Live Longer and Happier... GO Nerd Girl's!!! ;)

I like the coment posted by "MAMO" many Kudo's for your Grandmother ;) Women being highly intelligent and beautiful is nothing new. So go ahead girl's "Bank on it"

Is everything sexy in your narcissistic warped liberal minds?

My grandmother, who's almost 90 years old and from the South, was her high school's valedictorian, earned a degree in chemistry from Ole Miss and worked in the chem lab of one of the country's top companys during the 1940s (where she met my grandfather who was an engineer at said company; he having attended the University of Tennessee's engineering program). Women being highly intelligent is nothing new. Newsweek is just jumping on the bandwagon that being a geek is trendy, and that intelligent women are fashionable and--gasp!--attractive. I would think that my grandmother was an attractive young intelligent women...I mean, my grandfather married her. It's just been for centuries here in good old patriarchal culture that being intelligent meant being less than feminine, so I guess I can understand the overemphasis on the women of this article being attractive and girly. But how is that really anything new as well? Does no one remember Gloria Steinem? And before anyone screams she's before his/her time, I'm a Gen-Xer.

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Meh, to me the article shows a side of humanity most don't even see in themselves, Im currently dating a guy who is was smarter then the average adult, he is seventeen and practically better then most of the people Iv come to know on this planet. ~Shrugs~ Girls can be great, that is what the article gets out......that is their main objective, all this article wants is for others to follow in their footsteps and create more jobs.

Meh, to me the article shows a side of humanity most don't even see in themselves, Im currently dating a guy who is was smarter then the average adult, he is seventeen and practically better then most of the people Iv come to know on this planet. ~Shrugs~ Girls can be great, that is what the article gets out......that is their main objective, all this article wants is for others to follow in their footsteps and create more jobs. Computergeek01, I feel strongly that I agree with you........they need to focus on what the girls really are.....

Brains up the "it" factor.

But does anyone know the name of the song from the first 1/4th of the accompanying video?

I'm really disappointed by this article. The nerd girls have worked hard and have achieved so much and this article makes it seem as though all they care about is their looks. The nerd girls are so much more than that and the article barely mentioned any of their accomplishments. What about the whole computer simulations to test for aerodynamics and configuring a suspension system aspect of being a nerd girl?

women are smart and can get the job done that all that matters.
May they live long and prosper.

I apologize for the poorly written piece, cut the wrong part out.

For anybody that comes into contact with the terms nerd and geek regularly on college campuses in boston, you soon realize that nerd and geek are often used interchangeable. At MIT i hear them both all the time, nerd is percieved by the college crowd as merely a smart individual. I hear both terms all the time and rarely, very rarely is nerd used to mean unattractive.

You are spot on with your comments iamabug and it???s apparent from not only traditional published media but from nontraditional user generated media such as Facebook that the allure of the ego, narcissism, notoriety and whatever power comes from it is an irresistible force to many and is definitely a two-way street. Perhaps the idea of intelligence as being sexy is not such a bad thing provided that the ideal of what defines sexy isn???t limited to cultural stereotypes, allowing for individual uniqueness, confidence, compassion, sense of humor, and communication.

I am confused by this article title "Meet the Nerd Girls: they're smart, they're techie and they're hot"....if they are hot, then they are not true nerds. Also, aren't they women not girls?

It is great to see that more women are getting into the tech field, but why does this article have to play up that these girls are 'hot'?

According to the dictionary the definition of nerd is: nerd: ???noun Slang. 1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.

These girls are by definition not nerds as they are not unattractive and are not social misfits as the article states. I for one am a bit irritated by the underlying assumption that girls that are attractive are stupid. Just because these girls are smart and also happen to be attractive they are calling themselves nerds? It also seems stupid that they don't know the definition of nerd.

According to the dictionary the definition of nerd is: nerd: ???noun Slang. 1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.

These girls are by definition not nerds as they are not unattractive and are not social misfits as the article states. I for one am a bit irritated by the underlying assumption that girls that are attractive are stupid. Just because these girls are smart and also happen to be attractive they are calling themselves nerds? It also seems stupid that they don't know the definition of nerd.