Are 'geek' and 'nerd' now positive terms?

[6Foot2]

Just saw this on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fvmchmlQyc0

[SYNACK]

Pfft, geek, nerd, they're all just vague terms diluted to the point they can mean whatever they need to. Me, I'm different, just like everybody else

[LiamH]

I'm proud to be a geek, always preferred the term to the other more "PC" ones used like "wizz kid" and "tech wizard"

[X-13]

"tech wizard"

 

You shall not parse!

 

[6Foot2]

There is a "Geek Hierarchy" [apparently?]

 

http://www.geekcoefficient.com/images/geek.jpg

[tmcd35]

So, at work I'm a Dork. At home I'm a Nerd. Around other people I like to be thought of as a Geek?

[Domino]

Tell em Ogre..

 

[Fleetwood]

When I see women my age dressing in very 'revealing' clothes and then whacking on a pair of 3D Glasses and calling themself "Geek" to make them seem less of a --.. that's when I know it isn't a positive term.

 

Back OT though: I get called various, I never actually know which one I am - I suppose really we should just consider ourselves another supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus sentence but with all names relating to 'Geek/Nerd' in it instead. I would say it is a positive term now, especially as society have finally realised we're not all trolls who have basements for bedrooms and refuse to utter a single letter out of our mouths to people we come across. The old stereotype is finally fading