The likelihood that you are *actually* a nerd is pretty fucking slim.
I met a girl this past weekend who described herself as “OMG THE MOST EPIC NERD” - when she was anything and everything but. She chose “nerdy” as a self-descriptor to appeal to boys because she read something that said that “nerds are going to be hot.”
You know what? I went to high school in the ’80s. I had a computer. I read sci-fi. I was super fucking smart. And I was what one would call a huge fucking nerd. The day “nerd” became sexy was also the day I realized everything that had caused me pain from age 0-19 had been coopted by jocks and diluted past the point of fucking no return.
Everyone’s adolescence is painful, but the “nerds” of today have ZERO to fucking complain about. Try actually growing up in the days when everything you now find cool was absolutely the most uncool thing in the world.
