Oh, say it ain't so...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_DayA manifesto was created to celebrate the first Geek Pride Day which included the following list of basic rights and responsibilities of nerds.
Rights:
- The right to be even nerdier.
- 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 nerdy 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 nerdiness.
- The right to make an attempt at being as nerdy as Morgana Summers, and the right to fail.
- The right to develop serious crushes on Randall Munroe & Bo Burnam, as opposed to James Franco. (See 11).
- The right to execute shameless self advertisement via the Wikipedia Geek Pride Day page. (See 11).
- The right to carry a thesaurus with you at all times.
- The right to falsely assume the surnames Finkleton, Waldman, Stratzer and Krukemeyer.
- The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
- Be a nerd, no matter what.
- Try and be nerdier than anyone else.
- If there is a discussion about something nerdy, you must give your opinion.
- Save any and all nerdy things you have.
- Do everything you can to show off your nerdy stuff as though it were a "museum of nerdiness."
- Don't be a generalized nerd. You must specialize in something.
- Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every nerdy 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 nerddom.
- To befriend any person or persons bearing any physical similarities to comic book or sci-fi figures.
- Try to take over the world!
And it's been going on now for three years.
So in four days time, the geeks of the world will unite!