http://www.shessuchageek.com/2007/01/26/the-witty-repartee-of-overeducated-female-geeks/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2007/01/26/the-witty-repartee-of-overeducated-female-geeks/#comment-1318 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:37:26 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2007/01/26/the-witty-repartee-of-overeducated-female-geeks/#comment-1318 Wow. I just had a small epiphany inspired by your footnote. "Being called a brain as if it were a crime." That's it exactly. I wasn't really teased or taunted (well, maybe a little), but simply accused. "Oh, she's such a brain," they'd say. As if that's all there was to me. I did the modest and self-deprecating thing, too. Again, wow. I thought I'd come to terms with my whole geeky childhood, but I guess there are some things still unexamined. Wow. I just had a small epiphany inspired by your footnote. “Being called a brain as if it were a crime.” That’s it exactly. I wasn’t really teased or taunted (well, maybe a little), but simply accused. “Oh, she’s such a brain,” they’d say. As if that’s all there was to me. I did the modest and self-deprecating thing, too. Again, wow. I thought I’d come to terms with my whole geeky childhood, but I guess there are some things still unexamined.

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