Are suburban guys dorks in disguise?

There's a great line in Madmen, the AMC show set in 1960, where one of the wives, remarking on the drive to have kids do sports, notes that each husband thinks he's a jock and wants his son to be just as good... but in reality, of course, the husband was a miserable failure in highschool athletics. Or some such conversation. The fact is that sports are the refuge of the dork with physical ability.

Here's a fun fact: ALL MEN ARE GEEKS! And I say this as a man who readily admits to having my own geekness.

Sports are just as geeky and nerdy as anything else.

Some things to consider:

1. Men spout endless, meaningless numbers back and forth, keeping vast tables of statistics in their heads. They either turn to: computer programming (traditional nerd) or sports statistics (jock-nerd)
   
2. Men sit around imagining hypothetical situations up in their minds, keeping these fantasy worlds in their heads and meticulously on paper, and pretend to be something bigger than they are: Dungeons and Dragons (traditional dorks) or fantasy football (jock-dorks)
3. Men need to recount the events of some mundane incident they have experienced in great detail. They either recount Star Trek episodes (traditional geek) or plays in last night's game (jock-geek)

OK... I could go on. But suffice to say that modern American, suburban, white-bread, middle-class society has made the jock acceptable, and dare I say even admired, while the geeks are maligned. Why? Are they not the same?

Ladies - at the next BBQ or block-party, listen to the men talk about last night's game - now replace every mention of RBIs and ERAs into "data streams" and "megabytes", and change every mention of A-Rod or Delgado into Kirk and the Romulans, and you suddenly realize that these guys sound like dorks!!!!!

Fellas - think about it. Be honest. What's the difference? Don't lie... there is none, except that Star Trek is fictional, and the other is a game.

I realize this is hard to understand, but you will be a better person if you understand that we are all geeks in our own way. We all become nerds about something.

...and don't even get me started on the sheer doofus-ness of wearing visors! Visors? For Pete's sake - what are you? Kenny Rogers in the Gambler? Dork! Take it off quickly!