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Sh*t Nerds Say

by Susana Polo | 10:24 am, December 30th, 2011


I admit to not being a big fan of the “Sh*t Girls Say” videos, because for every line that makes me defensively go “yeah, I say that all the time, what?” there are three that confirm that the video has a very narrow definition of “girls.” You know, to one specific kind of personality type, in a specific kind of demographic group, and blah blah blah big words but basically it’s those kind of sweeping generalizations that ruin a joke for me.

Now, Sh*t Nerds Say might visually narrow itself to male nerds, but, as you might have guessed, I’m far more comfortable labeling myself as nerd or geek than as girl, and on top of that it leaves me feeling proud that I belong to a nerd community when I say these things.

(via GeekMom.)

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  • http://twitter.com/capnasty Capital of Nasty

    I think that being able to laugh at yourself — whether you’re a nerd and/or girl — takes a special skill many of us lack, me included.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zack-Reed/100002217822512 Zack Reed

    When others are laughing at you for being what you are, you don’t really feel like laughing with them, do you? Me neither. 

  • http://twitter.com/capnasty Capital of Nasty

    I suppose it depends on just how comfortable you are in your own skin. Next time I’m asked to fix a computer, I’ll be sure to make them bow down to my awesomeh nerd powah. Maybe I’ll even laugh maniacally. (cue lightning).

  • Anonymous

    I’m perfectly capable of laughing at myself, but I have a problem when I’m asked to laugh at women. Or gay people, or Asian people, etc. Any arbitrary grouping of people that is way less homogeneous than popular portrayals are willing to admit. So, every arbitrary grouping of people. 

  • http://twitter.com/mo_ranyart Mo

    Oh hey! I went to college with this guy and I’m happy to see he’s still at G4 and still being funny. 

  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    This isn’t really one of those “funny cos it’s true” things cos, you know, it’s just true…  It’d be like having a “Shit French People Say” and have a video where a guy just talks in French O.o

  • Anonymous

    Yeah I say almost everything in the nerd video, and almost nothing in the girls video. So I guess I’m a nerd *rather* than a girl. ;)

  • Anonymous

    But it only counts as ‘laughing at yourself’ if the jokes actually apply to you…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AOFTU2AM7WRZZFDC6SPN4XF6KQ Null

    It’d be more interesting to have a ‘Sh*t nerd girls say’ that neither male nerds nor non-nerdy girls say. The list of things on the back of a pair of ‘geek girl glasses’ (there were ‘geek guy glasses’ for sale too) included some generic nerdage but also references to stuff like Etsy and knitting that’s predominantly geek-girly. Any other examples?

  • Terence Ng

    Actually, I laughed at Sh&t Girls Say because it just so happens that those are things I say all the time…as a gay man and things I come across with a number of conversations with my gal pals.

    The Sh&t Gay Guys Say version wasn’t funny (but I wasn’t offended) because I didn’t identify with many of those things, though I saw where it was coming from, and I have friends who would probably say those things.

    Sh&t Black Girls Say was funny to me, and, at the risk of tokenising my friends, my black girlfriends thought it was hilarious.

    *Shrug*. I think if you asked the people who made all four of these if these are things all nerds/not-nerd girls/black girls/gay guys say and do, the obvious answer would be “no”.

  • Anonymous

    It’s missing a girl sloppily dressed as a guy, making it twenty times more offensive.

  • http://twitter.com/Ifollowtrendz I follow trendz

    I know what you mean.  I just happened to do…just that!
    Now Shit French People Say but he ain’t French.  Got only 30k views because Americans don’t understand. http://youtu.be/hxndREL9h74 Plz help #RETWEET #reblog

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