Being a female who works in IT, plays video games, enjoys board games, loves Dungeons and Dragons (or really any role playing system), loves SciFi and Fantasy movies and books, reads manga and watches anime puts me in a rather of small circle of girls. I get weird stares when I walk into a comic shop or a gaming shop. Most clerks just assume I’m in there against my will or that I’m there to get a gift for one of the men in my life. I am a unicorn. Many have heard tell of my kind, but few believed.
Over the years my tribe has grown, we aren’t so few and far between now. I know quite a few girls who are interested in a lot of the same things I am, I even game regularly with two such girls! Even though there are more of us it seems people still don’t believe we exist. We have to prove our nerd cred at every turn. Having guys ask if I know what Monty Python is, or if you know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek is kind of insulting (honestly, if you want to really stump me ask “what is the difference between a Coach purse and a Louis Vuitton purse?”) Pro tip boys, if you want to test a nerd’s cred (boy or girl) ask who was the better Captain, Kirk or Picard? Every nerd worth their salt has an opinion on that.
Now, I know this blog isn’t about nerd girls, heck, I know a lot of you don’t even want to hear about it but there are plenty of us out there that are just at least as hard core as you, dear reader. So please, be kind to ladies at the table, online, in the comic book store, or in the computer section. Don’t belittle, talk down to, or assume anything about them. If you want to meet girls, it helps if they are in to the same stuff you are. So try not to frighten them away.
If you ARE a nerd girl, or you want to know more about us, here are a few sites that are written by nerd girls of various types
http://www.notinthekitchenanymore.com/
http://thebloggess.com/
http://teamunicornftw.com/
http://feliciaday.com/
http://justnerdgirlproblems.tumblr.com/
http://www.nerdgirlarmy.com/
If you know of one I've missed leave it in the comments!
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