If you want to be an out and proud nerd and not get made fun of, you have to make being a nerd cool. Yes, yes, I’ve read all of the articles about nerds being the new mainstream, etc., but just because Big Bang Theory gets millions of viewers cackling (or, more accurately, smiling slightly and nodding) at gross caricatures of horrible nerds, doesn’t mean you’re going to start posting pictures to your online dating profile of you in an Aquaman T-shirt while holding a Venture Bros. mug.