Geek vs Nerd

Geek vs Nerd

To know what a geeky black girl is, is to know the difference between Geek and Nerd. Literally the geek is most likely the girls you are going to relate to, she is going to be your gamer and your cosplayer, while the nerd can do your taxes and had a 4.0 in high school while moving on to be an accountant. Sure the nerd might read a comic here and there, but its more of a pass time for her, she most likely is not going to quote a line or be up to date in what’s going on in the Marvel Universe.  Not to say the nerd is bad, If anything she is more well put together than a geek girl, most geek girls tend to be just like you, smart but only in areas she find worthy to be interested in. The geek girls is what some may call a child at times, because she would rather play around and goof off rather than do work.

Both Girls have their strengths and weaknesses and levels of intensity when it comes to how they act. While the Geek plays around, when you need her to be serious there are times when she refuses to get out of play, while the nerd girl may go into serious mode more than you would like her to. The key is to find a balance, most geeks have a line in which they will not cross and that lets them know its not play time anymore. While a nerd will quietly think back and realize some things she did not have to be serious on.

Black girls can be a special case though; because of our culture we are taught many things that conflict with our geek/nerd self. In black culture we are taught to be loud and cut throat at times, but since most of us have looked past our black culture some of us have rejected that personality, so when we have the time to be ourselves we tend to think our personality might not be socially acceptable. A perfect case would be how when I was growing up, my own race would reject me and call me White or Asian based on my hobbies. So all through middle school and part of high school that’s the group I mainly tried to fit in with. It wasn’t till my last few years of high school that I came out of my shell, keep in mind some girls do not grow out of this phase so instead they adopt another culture’s social personality.

So you could have a geeky black girl who has not come out of her shell and be more timid that the average geek who shows her pride with bright colors. Or a nerd who should be more forceful in certain situations but is more of a push over, while it may seems like she doesn’t sweat the small stuff it could be bothering her internally. Its true that over all a black Geeky/Nerd girl are as rare in the average community, but finding one who is true to herself is even more rare. So being a Geek or a nerd doesn’t mean anything if you are not yourself.