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By contrast, many nerds can be handsome (Gore) or self-confident to the point of arrogance (Gates, Gingrich).
… An essay blames the media's ignorance of technology for its Y2K doomsaying: "Maybe newspapers should hire a few more nerds."
The rap on nerds has always been that they're technically brilliant but socially inept.
And in a cartoon from the '90s, a natty, bespectacled young man in an ill-fitting suit says to a professional woman at a cocktail party, "I'm not one of those nerds who's made a fortune with some kind of software.
Further, witness the proliferation of '80s teen movies valorizing nerds: Revenge of the Nerds , Weird Science , and Real Genius , to name a few.