Ah, point, I'm being unclear. I've seen the "Well, geeks were persecuted, so of course they're reacting to their former persecutors suddenly finding geek things cool!" actually given as an argument for why it's especially benevolent of geeks to not do "fake geek girl" things, and as an excuse for why they would reasonably do so. But that's not what the article was arguing, nor you; I was chewing over some of the reasoning that's 15 degrees off, and muddled it with personal anecdote.

Sorry! I did not mean it as an argument against what you were saying, and probably just should've put that elsewhere, not in your comments.