A lot of the Geek/Nerd culture has opened up to the mainstream, for example x-men, spiderman, and Ironman movies, and what was previously only available in some dark store in some strange corner in some strange dimension somewhere, has exploded over the internet and in mainstream movies.
I think that a lot of Geeks, male or female, can be divided into two types: those who at a young age sometime in the early nighties went downstairs at 6.30 every Saturday morning to watch Captain Planet, the X-men, Batman: The animated series..yeah, that line up. The other type, however discovered the whole culture through the mainstream and therefore do not have the in-depth knowledge of the beloved cartoon series. The former of the two, such as myself, well, no one every understood what I was talking about until my mid-twenties. Then I met another girl who was a nerd from her youth and pure pure awesomage ensued. Perhaps the latter types appear superficial to the former.
I do not really consider myself to be a Geek but then again I majored in the Japanese language, have an absolutely ridiculous collection of plushies (you know Totoro, in the film where where the little Totoros are having their seed planting ritual, I can recreate that, and oh, its gets worse), a collection of old batman comics that make, 'killing joke' look tame, a bookcase full of Terry Prachett and obscure manga from the 80s, and the entire Star Trek collection on DVD, including the movies (except the non-cannon stuff)
I am going to like what I like though and I don't care what that makes me., though more than anything else, my interests are probably the reason why I am single.
