Geeks do it better

Ok, so some of them are socially awkward, but I don’t understand what’s so wrong with the geeks on Beauty and the Geek. Yes, there are a few of them that are so far out in the geek universe that they can barely carry on a conversation with a normal person (Niels, Paio, and Matt) but there are also geeks (like Mario or Nate) that are smart, funny, and cool.

Let’s look at Mario and Nate for a minute. While both of them might not be Brad Pitt, their conversations have been much more interesting than the crap you see between the pretty air-heads on Laguna Beach or The Real World. They have personalities and brains of their own and they’re not vapid morons like you see on most reality TV. I find it pretty funny that someone wouldn’t want to get to know a person just because they own 25,000 comic books, like Mario, or they’re in a Star Wars band, like Nate.

Honestly, people, who would you rather date, Talan from Laguna Beach or Nate from Beauty and the Geek? Think about it. You have to go to dinner and make conversation, or catch a movie, or talk on the phone and generally interact with the person. It might be different if I asked who you’d rather sleep with, but I’m talking about who you’d actually want to be your boyfriend. I know if I was faced with the choice of a super hot guy that had absolutely nothing going on upstairs or a less attractive geeky guy who could actually carry on a conversation, I’d pick the geek in a second.

Besides, most of the coolest people are geeks. Hollywood heartthrobs aside, the majority of the writers, directors, musicians, etc. who I really like were geeks at some point in their lives. Matt Stone from South Park, for example, has said that he was a geek in school and he’s one half of the funniest duo in the world. Tons of people go crazy for Elijah Wood, but he’s got more in common with your average nerd than he does with the quarterback of the football team. Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, might be one of the most intriguing and attractive guys in the music industry and he was a major dork in school. There are countless others who might have played D&D, sat alone in the cafeteria, sucked at sports and never went on dates that are now talented and well-respected professionals in the entertainment industry. I’ll bet that for every one pin-up pretty face, there are a dozen others who never had it easy and worked their way to the top.

When I watch Beauty and the Geek, I laugh the hardest at the geeks’ comments and I’m annoyed and horrified at the things that come out of the “beauties” mouths. I’d rather watch a group of nerds talk about Wrath of Khan for 20 minutes than listen to a bunch of dumb girls giggle about which pink outfit to put on their Chihuahua… and I don’t think I’m alone.

Chances are that most of us have been geeks at some point in our lives and that’s why we have depth to our personalities. I would guess that most people who watch the show identify more with the geeky guys than the buxom blondes. If you look at the media, geeks are getting more respect and publicity. People are not afraid to let their geek flag fly anymore and that’s a good thing. So, to all my geeks, I leave you with a quote from Goonies, “It’s our time down here!” If you’re a geek, be a geek. Chances are you’re going to end up happy and successful while the popular kids that torture you end up becoming bloated coked-up train wrecks who ditch rehab and have babies with their no-talent back-up dancer husbands.