to turn one's deep-seated shame of their own nerdiness into a point of pride; to recognize and claim ownership of one's own inherent geekiness.
After years of living in fear of judgment and ridicule, I now have the NerdShame Pride needed to read fanfiction in public. Fandomfuckers beware--Everyone has something truly dorky about them so, step off, bitch.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)