You Are Not A Nerd, Anne Hathaway

As BWE’s citizen Angry Pointer-Outer That Super libidinous Actresses Aren’t F***ing Nerds, I am obligated to ask for everyone’s attention to the latest perpetrator, a person Anne Hathaway.
To be clear, I don’t antagonism Anne Hathaway, and I’m not completely sure why she’s the latest celeb to sprout into that “60% Of My Female Friends Randomly enmity Her” Zone (previously the “ScarJo province”). But on last night’s commonplace Show episode, Hathaway became the latest exact attractive actress to attempt to look self-deprecating and down-to-soil by co-opting the (now basically trivial) term “nerd,” opening her interview with this group-pandering exchange:
Hathaway: [Gesturing to drive] So these are the nerds? [Referencing a "nerd" crack Jon Stewart made earlier in the ep]
[pack Woos]
Hathaway: My people!!! [More cheering]
Stewart: …How are you doing? So when you whisper ‘nerds,’ what would you consider nerdly pursuits, do you have in the offing nerdly pursuits?
Hathaway: I’m a Scrabble fiend. [ED NOTE: I stupidly from the first thought she said "Travel Fiend," which was MO = 'modus operandi' more confusing - this made more sagacity]
Stewart: Ok. [Interview continues.]
Boom! There you maintain it. She may LOOK like a wonderful hot, super popular movie star, but on the in prison, she is ALLLL NERDDDD. How do we cognizant of this? She likes the obscure, wonderful-losery game of Scrabble.
After the skip, let’s go back and trounce the ol’ nerdy dead horse:

Red Shirt suspect Guy is a nerd. Rapping Klingon is a nerd. People Who acquire Star Trek Medical Officer Portraits are nerds.
While I don’t ridiculous Hathaway’s genuine affinity for Scrabble, tangible ‘nerdiness’ implies being in some separate of moderately-outcasted cultural position or pursuing interests within that outcasted cultural situation, and often uniting within that community based on a unified shunning from mainstream / standard society. It does not mean “being aloft-averagely interested in a common impedimenta.” It also doesn’t mean “guide Star Wars,” “liking Lord Of The Rings,” “zone the Spider-Man movies,” or any other of a million soul universally accepted endeavors which do not in any situation incidentally alienate a person from the best part of the population. On the contrarily, a person who doesn’t any of those things — or who doesn’t come into any slightly-intense interests — is inherently respect more unusual than someone who does.
But here’s the people simple fact that these “I’m a nerd” actresses so time after time ignore: This isn’t an either/or schema. You can be a likable themselves without being a nerd. Pandering to a nerdy fanbase by means of calling yourself a “nerd” when you’re absolutely a hot, popular actress is set the world on fire more dishonest and unnecessary than at best not mentioning it and having a well-mannered, thoughtful, sane interview. It’s basically a corollary to Paul Tompkins’ “Actresses Who put They Used To Be Tomboys Growing Up” Theory, where charming people act like any admission that they were charming in high school or ever posted of their attractiveness makes them instantly turn up off as extremely arrogant (when, in factors, the opposite is true).
Sure, the nerds in the regularly Show crowd are wooing, but that’s barely what crowds do — none of them impartially believe for one second that expensive school Anne Hathaway was constantly having her homemade trammel mail satchel of 20-sided-dice swiped during bullies who played keepaway then stuffed her into a locker. She and Tron gink both fall under the same “nerd” rank about as broadly as they both dive into the same “human beings” grade.
Anne Hathaway, you are a anxious actress. You enjoy a word plot. That’s completely fine. Please bear this fact in future interviews or I’ll be phoney to join that 60% of my female friends in their individual disliking of you. Most of them are wonderful NERDS, for the record — they delight in those nerdy, niche Batman films.
(H/T to our colleague Eric Cunningham for being on nerd alarm. Also thanks to several commenters throughout instantly correcting the “Travel” thing, and doing so in a course less insulting fashion than I audibly deserved for jumping that gun.)
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