After endless amounts of drool over sexy male nerds like the recent NY Observer piece about male " nerds of steel ," hailing the arrival of geeks who are buff , many men and women are cheering about the "revenge of the nerdette" -- the rise of the sexy nerd girl. Of course, until now female geeks' sex appeal has been roughly equivalent to that of Napoleon Dynamite. Wikipedia describes the nerd girl as a stock character who wears eye glasses, dresses unfashionably, wears pigtails and other little girl items like mary-jane shoes and knee high socks , is shy and socially inept and either overweight or gangly. More recently, they sometimes have a passion for social justice see Simpson, Lisa are feminist or post-feminist see Granger, Hermione or come up with the piece of knowledge that enables the plot to be resolved see Velma from Scooby Doo. And sometimes, just sometimes, they get a makeover and become kinda pretty albeit in an awkward way see Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.