The Peak of Geek
So now we emerge into the 21st century—an era of emo-rock, wine tasting, board game parties, and tweed blazers. This is unfamiliar territory for the pop-culture enthusiast used to the easily recognizable lexicon of cool. Geek chic takes the conventions of pretty, sexy, and popular, and turns them on their head. Take, for example, the lead characters from the ridiculously popular TV show “The O.C.” It is not Ryan, the bad boy with the smoldering stare who has garnered the affection of teen girls everywhere, but rather Seth—Seth the school outcast, Seth the Comic-Con attendee, Seth the indie music lover. Seth the geek.
Still, Seth is not by any means the prototypical TV nerd; he is no president of the chemistry club. Rather, he embodies all the elements of recognizable geek chic, sporting obscure band names on his T-shirts and spouting inane but bizarrely captivating facts about literature, history, and video games. He isn’t the smartest kid at school, and he doesn’t need to be. Being geeky is no longer equated with conventional intelligence. It has much more to do with possessing indepth knowledge of interests or obsessions outside the norm.
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