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Geeks do not have pedigrees

Or perfect punk rock resumes
Or anorexic magazines
It smells like girl, it smells like girl

Anybody recognize the title and following lines?

Believe it or not, this post is going to be related, albeit loosely, to the title.

Specifically, I am irritated because Cameron Diaz is not a geek.

And she's always supposed to be one! Her Charlie's Angels character, Natalie, is so geeko-charming I could just puke. The show younger pictures of her with headgear, show her wearing Superman underwear and knocking over a row of bathroom stalls, and have her do that ridiculous "I'm-so-in-love-with-my-own-ass" dance at least ten times.

But she's just not a fucking geek! She's blonde, beautiful, thin, rich, famous, and KNOWS IT. They can put fake spooge in her hair to make it stand up all they want, and she's still fucking Cameron Diaz.

And she's an insult to real geeks everywhere. As if we don't have it hard enough without being supposed to live up to Cameron Fucking Diaz's standard of geekiness.

See, she's not making geekdom cool. She's making fun of geekdom and making that cool. And I resent it. If you are Barbie, just be Barbie. You can't be geek-chic without actually being a fucking geek.

Now that I have that strange rant out of my system...

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