Does This Make Me a Nerd?

I am NOT a nerd. At least that's what I firmly believed until recently.

I don't play video games, I don't watch sci-fi on television, I don't read books with bad purple fantasy art on the cover, and I don't go to ANYTHING-con. I don't have a nervous laugh. I have friends. I wear makeup. My clothes are decisively non-frumpy.

Then I got an OK Cupid profile for a few days so that I could write a sample ad for the site. Even though there's already a guy I like in Real Life, I wanted to see what it was all about before putting pen to paper. I clicked around, answered a few questions, and found out that anyone who scored over 80 percent compatibility with me was a SELF-DESCRIBED NERD. The first thing they wrote on their pages was, "I'm kind of nerdy..." or "I'm a nerd, but..." or "I guess I'm a nerd". Their nerdiness, believe it or not, was their HEADLINE.

Are these nerds the people who I should actually be dating? Have I been dating the wrong people all this time? Am I really more compatible with nerds? If so, does that make me a nerd, too?

There are only two other explanations for this, and God help me, I hope one of these is right:

1. The guys are playing the nerdy beta male card because everyone thinks the guys from Juno and Zombieland are kind of hot... or maybe because they saw that IMAX movie about cuttlefish, and learned that the beta cuttlefish are actually more likely to reproduce because they don't waste time fighting with the other males like the alpha ones do.

2. EVERY guy on OK Cupid is a nerd.

Have you ever been on a dating site? Tell me what your experience was like. If something similar happened to you, I won't worry so much about this nerd phenomenon. I'll be able to sleep at night.