GeniesLoki

You know how some people are *really* into being geeks and proudly declare they're geeks and are super into things specifically because they're geeky and it's just incredibly cringe, especially if you're also a geek? I feel like a lot of identity labels work like this.

I don't think identity labels are bad BTW. Identity labels serve a lot of useful social functions which are hard to replace. It's just that taking them too seriously seems to be a very cringe failure mode.

I'm a little worried I've reinvented the "Fake Geek Girl" concept as most of the examples I can think of doing this are women. There are guys who are clearly a bit too into being geeks, but their identity isn't challenged so they don't need to perform it.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1305033957713612800 …

yea i think your filtering might be off cuz while fake geek girl is a more legible character type i have a much stronger association between op behavior and dudes

tbf this might be more a "i know more dudes that align with geek stuff, and happen to act this way", which doesn't exclude any theories that the pattern of behavior skews toward chicks, just that the subject of loud association might differ

yr other tweet somewhere itt about atheists/Atheists is def another v dude realm where this happens tho