Idiot Nerd Girl — a meme featuring a girl in oversized glasses with the word "NERD" written across her hand — is one example of geek culture's entrenched misogyny, but recently one woman ...

If memes were once nerdy in-jokes, they're now language supplements that work like an abstract emoji or a German word on loan. They bring an emotional texture that English typing can't quite convey.

Let's imagine a kid who hasn't been born yet. When he's 15 we will be all old and shaky we will play him Hell Hath no Fury and then we will show him this video for "Life as a Fish." ...