All Hipsters are Nerds, but Not all Nerds are Hipsters?
Great excerpt from the Salon article, ‘Beauty and The Geek’:
What’s the relationship between hipsters and nerds?
A lot of the fashion accessories that we’ve come to associate with hipsters refer nostalgically to old prototypes of what nerds are supposed to look like. I first remember seeing it in the early ’90s, when I was in high school. Kids were starting to wear big, bulky glasses, and it was understood that they weren’t actually nerds; they were affecting nerdiness in quotation marks, so that you knew they were really un-nerdy. By using nerdiness as a fun way to develop part of their personality, they’re doing precisely what nerds are not able to do, which is master social interaction, and master how they present themselves.
-Benjamin Nugent, author of ‘American Nerd’