It’s time to celebrate your inner geek, and for some of you your outer one. According to the Wikipedia page, “Geek Pride Day is an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek.” Now this includes everything geeky, not just your nerdy internet love. May 25th, has been selected as the official day to celebrate each year, so get ready, tomorrow will be filled with lolz.
Geek Pride day originated in Albany, New York in 1998. Tim McEachern organized events from 98 to 00 that were called The Geek Pride Festival. In 2006, Geek Pride day gained publicity and was celebrated in Spain and all over the internet. Finally in 2008, Geek Pride Day was officially celebrated in America, man were we slow to catch on.
A manifesto was created to celebrate the first Geek Pride Day which included the following list of basic rights and responsibilities of geeks. Since no one has organized an official meetup, you are hereby required to show off your geekiness on the internet. I will expect to see nerdy Daily Booth pics, embarrassing tweets, plenty of geeky links and of course a hashtag or two.
If anyone would like to organize a last minute tweet-up, *cough Mike Prasad cough*, I would suggest doing it on Plancast and linking to it in the comments.
Basic rights and responsibilities of geeks
Rights:
The right to be even geekier.
The right to not leave your house.
The right to not have a significant other and to be a virgin.
The right to not like football or any other sport.
The right to associate with other nerds.
The right to have few friends (or none at all).
The right to have all the geeky friends that you want.
The right to not be “in-style.”
The right to be overweight and have poor eyesight.
The right to show off your geekiness.
The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
Be a geek, no matter what.
Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
Save any and all geeky things you have.
Do everything you can to show off your geeky stuff as though it were a “museum of geekiness.”
Don’t be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
Don’t waste your time on anything not related to geekdom.
Befriend any person or persons bearing any physical similarities to comic book or sci-fi figures.
Try to take over the world!
(Photo from realgeek.com)
