Using the internet and then, later, internet culture used to be a rather nerdy thing. But ever since the introduction of the smartphone, where the internet wasn’t something that dwelled in your living ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...