Geek Generation

I love Doctor Who.

Have you noticed recently how much love people are heaping onto geeky pursuits? Right now (and for the past decade, to my mind) has been the best ever time to be a geek or a nerd. Whether you love Star Trek, read comics, play video games, enjoy card or tabletop games, read science fiction or fantasy novels or just enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer growing up, your probably finding a whole lot more acceptance and respect in the wider community. And isn't it wonderful? Culturally, nerds and geeks have been stigmatized and minimized in the eyes of others, in film and in social circles. We were the kids with the glasses and knitted vest sucking on a Ventolin inhaler at the first sign of a *gasp* girl! How times have changed. We love our Kirk's, ours Spider-man's, our Buffy's, our Harry Potter's, our Ripley's, our Mario's, our Master Chiefs, our Chandra Nalaars, our D20's and our Skynets, our Data's, our Battlestar's, our Na'vi, our Ponies. We love our geekiness and we show it with pride. There is a whole generation of young people who will grow up proudly decreeing there love and enjoyment of all things geeky without fear of being ridiculed. And that makes me happy.

Until D & D leads to sewer-based accommodation, I remain

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