Word: nerd
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...more importantly, they want respect. "Until the words `nerd' and `geek' become terms of approbation and not derision," reads their Manifesto, "we do not stand a chance...
...Geeks' thesis is an odd combination of old-fashioned conservative thinking--just change attitudes and everything else will follow--and nouveau Nerd militancy. They challenge the orthodox liberal view of education; instead of radical legislative action, the Nerds want a cultural catharsis. But their solution misses the point on several issues...
SONG is playing a chicken-and-egg game. Do Nerds become Nerds because of social ostracization, or do they suffer ostracization because of their nerdiness. SONG would claim the latter. A Nerd, as they tacitly define it (they never do so explicitly, preferring to keep membership wide open) is a lover of knowledge who suffers socially because...
...When [SONG President] Jeremy Kahn told me he was forming this organization, I realized that I was a closet nerd or geek by the way I was leading my life up until this point and all the things I think about," said Widerman. "I find myself being stereotyped in a way that I have fought against all my life...Clearly people have some conception of what nerds or geeks are supposed to look like. I don't look like that, but somewhere in my own mind I think of myself...
...would build little towns in her room or beg her father to let her throw a pot, or have spirited games of chess with Tan. "I find it very fun to be thinking all the time, figuring things out. I guess you could say I was somewhat of a nerd," she laughs...