Why I';m Proud To Be A Nerd

I watched a video earlier today, featuring Wil Wheaton doing some form of Q&A session. If you don't know who Wil Wheaton is, well, I know he was in Star Trek, but other than that... Before he said answered any questions, Wil Wheaton made a speech, in which he quoted John Green pretty much for the entirety. It's so incredibly genius, and it the last comment that Wil made is something that I too would like to say, and so I share with you today, the speech, originally made by John Green, re-announced by Wil Wheaton, and now added to in several places by me.

Saying "I notice you're a nerd" is like saying, "hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than stupid. That you'd rather be thoughtful than vapid. That you believe that there are more important things in life than the arrest records of Charlie Sheen.
Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-on-your-seat, can't-control-yourself LOVE IT. When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is "hey... You like stuff," which really isn't a good insult at all. Like, you're too enthusiatic about the miracle of human consciousness.

Thank you John Green, for telling me exactly why I am proud to be a nerd.

As humans, we have this thing where we don't get insulted for what we do, we get insulted for who we are, which really doesn't make any sense at all. When you insult someone, the initial idea of what you're trying to do is to make them feel bad about themselves by comparing them or calling them something that it is not a good thing to be, so the so called insults like nerd and gay are not really insults at all, because it is okay to be those things, or even it is good to openly be those things.
If you want to insult somebody, try using Shakespeare. Shakespeare knew how to insult people. I can only think of a few off the top of my head, but he used phrases like: "You carcass fit for hounds!" "You undigested lump!" These are good insults because they really are bad things to be. A carcass fit for hounds, basically what you're saying is that they're dead to you, and you'd just throw their carcass to the dogs to eat, without the dignity of a proper burial. That is how much they are worth to you. THAT is a good insult. An undigested lump? They're just a lump of something, Shakespeare didn't even specify what exactly they used to be, but now they're just some lump of some unidentified thing, which is disgusting as it is, but add the undigested part to that, and now that already disgusting image is now floating around in somebody's stomach, where it will stay for an undetermined period of time. That is most definitely an insult. And that is, once again, why I am proud to be a nerd. DFTBA