Idiot Nerd Girl — a meme featuring a girl in oversized glasses with the word "NERD" written across her hand — is one example of geek culture's entrenched misogyny, but recently one woman decided to ...

In light of the Cosplay Appreciation Day kerfuffle we covered this morning, now seems like a good time to revisit the “Idiot Nerd Girl” meme. It started last year as a way to insult women who refer to ...

A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. A portrait of the author as a young nerd When I was a kid, I wore thick black glasses, long pants that were too short with formal ...

a parody of NBC's "The More You Know" public service videos. This one began at Slabtown, in Northwest Portland, where we saw an attractive young woman telling a guy that she likes video games and is ...

Despite the increased popularity of geek culture and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a negative stereotype in popular culture, according to new ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by John Cook on Jan 6, 2012 at 11:43 am December 15, 2014 at 8:05 pm ...

As a geek girl myself, I've been accused of wearing a "Star Wars" shirt to "get attention from guys who actually care if Han shot first." I've been told to move to the side and let "real gamers" -- ...

Should branding someone a 'nerd' be made a hate crime? Dr Sonja Falck thinks 'divisive and humiliating' anti-IQ insults can have negative effects that last a lifetime, while @Bobby_Seagull says the ...

Do you identify as a geek or a nerd? Unsure? Perhaps this helpful datavisualization can be of some assistance. Spurred by the age-old Geek vs. Nerd Debate, self-proclaimed music geek and science nerd ...

The meme, which surfaced in late 2010, depicts a teenage girl wearing thick glasses and showing the word “Nerd” written on her hand. It has been used to parody women who pretend to be geeks but in ...