Geek Girls Are Not Fake - Don't Step On Other People's Fandoms!

Once upon a time, in the fair land of Geekdom, there was equality amongst the people. Girls and boys teamed together around maps, dice clutched in their hands as they waited to see if they could defeat the fell Lich in its lair. It was a glorious time where all those who were stuck on the outside found one another and a commonality that made the bitter light of a world that didn’t understand them somehow easier to bear. Their love of comics and table top games and video games brought them together and there was peace in the land. Well, a peace as relative as the next Atari battle would allow for.

 Then came the dawning of girls wanting equality in characters. They were tired of playing male characters and tired of the female characters they loved being treated as little more than an object of wet dreams. As there was nothing else, however, these were the girls that little girls had to love. And so they did. Their love blossomed into wishing they could be as strong and beautiful as these heroines and thus became cosplay.

How the hell does showing your appreciation of a character you love somehow equate to being a fake geek? This is a day and age where people are supposed to be smarter and more realistic. You know what, I DON’T read a lot of comics. I know a couple girls who do, though, and whatever I don’t know, they make up for it. You know what else I don’t do a lot of? Gaming. This doesn’t make me a fake geek, this means my nerdgasms happen elsewhere, thank you very much. My elsewhere happens to be movies and books. I don’t watch a lot of the youtube channels that are devoted to these sorts of things, don’t troll through Tumblr or Reddit, this doesn’t make me less of anything. It means my interests might not align with yours.

How dare you compare yourself to anyone that loves something so unconditionally? A real geek understands what it is like to be treated differently for loving something that people might not understand. A real geek keeps an open mind when they learn something new. A real geek doesn’t tell someone they have somehow failed because of a single obscure fact that happened, four thousand issues ago. A real geek, would also know that Lois was NOT created as the love interest of Superman, thank you very much. Get with your comic book history, that’s not even obscure, that’s downright main stream and should be standard knowledge.

I am not a fake geek girl. I am a geek who happens to be a girl. I am not less because I have an awesome rack, you are not less because you don’t have an awesome rack. We are geeks and geeks are cool, so get with the program, let our race prosper once more, and get over whatever damage some pretty girl in hipster glasses did to your ego that makes you fear us for having ovaries. Geeks are legion and we should be united under an awesome banner wielded by Joss Whedon himself, not arguing on two sides of a stupid divide over whether or not you really count as a geek if you have breasts.

Man up, get over it, and come join me on the bright side; We have star trek shot glasses and whiskey.

Stevie