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 ...

We all know girls like this. By now we’re on to them. Yet they persist, like a fungus. I’m talking about attractive females who fancy themselves as nerds. For ...

The newest meme has arrived. Tebowing was fun while it lasted, but like planking it has gone stale. The Harlem shake recently enjoyed its 15 minutes but it's already over. Maybe it required too many ...

It may conjure images of Family Matters' bespectacled, suspenders-clad Steve Urkel. Or the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Or Scooby-Doo's Velma. Or you may ...

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 ...