The rest of your post is spot-on, but this isn't universally true. I work with female Computer Science PhD students. Trust me, they're very much geeks and not nerds.
OK, so one may safely refer to females as Geeks if they're studying for their PhD or other doctorate, or if they work for Mythbusters. :wink:
It's much more widespread than that limited set. There are significant numbers of distaff geeks at a corporate campus in NW Washington. Most are proud of it and rightfully so.
Nerds are the ones who lock themselves in their parents' basements to invent the technologies. Geeks are the brave souls who make the technology a part of their everyday lives, and Nerds are the technophilic wannabes who lack the intelligence and/or social skills to be either Geeks or Nerds.
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