It is a geek’s world

Not too long ago according to the popular standards set by the media and our own ways of thinking, growing up there was almost nothing worse than being a geek.
You might have called this person something else, such as nerd, dweeb, creep, twerp, dope, jerk or, maybe, just a plain loser.
Today’s age is quite a different story though. In fact, one could say the geek will inherit the earth.
With comic book movies ruling the summer box office, television shows like Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Lost and The Office being the new water cooler talk and businesses embracing the tech-savvy movement by creating departments, like the Geek Squad at Best Buy, dedicated to installing and repairing household computers and entertainment centers, to be a geek is divine.
Whereas 20 years ago the world of a nerd was idolized as getting revenge on the jocks that tormented them, such as Revenge of the Nerds, today’s films show nerds as not just getting the best of their popular counterparts by seeking revenge, but rather by besting them in competition, as seen in Napoleon Dynamite.
Napoleon and his socially challenged friends created a cult following throughout 2004 as Pedro was able to achieve greatness as he beat the popular cheerleader in the school’s student body presidential election. They achieved this not through some popular method of beating up the mean jock or humiliating the cheerleader, but rather with Napoleon executing a one-man dance that emphasized his geekiness.
It is no secret that characters from Marvel and DC comics’ vaults are raking in the money, These characters who are web-slinging across Manhattan and leading double lives at night as a caped crusader were once considered nerdy to be interested in. Comic books for children were okay, but if you didn’t grow up and let those graphic novels go you were the nerd of the group.
Production companies have latched onto the geek movement by casting sexy women and dreamy men in nerdy, space shows. Women like Tricia Helfer, Jeri Ryan, Ali Larter and Kristen Bell have been the topics of plenty of forums for the uber-geek, but those women have also brought in audiences who would not have normally been interested in the Star Trek world and other space/fantasy programs.
In May, David Tennant, the latest star of Doctor Who, was named sexiest man on television, according to dailyrecord.co.uk. David Boreanaz now plays a FBI agent, but throughout the late 90s and early 2000s he was a reformed vampire fighting evil on the Buffy spinoff Angel.
Another hunky star that convinces the ladies to tune into a geek’s show is Nathan Fillion, who starred as the captain on the short-lived space series Firefly. These guys make the language of geek sound sexy.
Another sign that geeks are taking over is that nerd paraphernalia is becoming sexy. One such item would be glasses on a woman. The Aphrodite of glasses-wearing celebrities would be Tina Fey, who has created a new category for wearing geek clothing that is called geek chic.
With the release of the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone, Apple has started a revolution to own the latest piece of technology that shows how geek-greedy we really are.
We live in a geek paradise now and it is so much nicer to be able to embrace your inner-dork than to keep running from its inescapable clutches.