Amanda Marcotte has a good piece in TAP about TV’s increasing acceptance of the female nerd. Alas, its case studies are mostly shows I have no interest in watching, like Glee and Bones Ugly Betty. Minor quibble: I don’t really understand how 30 Rock‘s Liz Lemon or Parks & Recreation‘s Leslie Knope really fit in here. (You heard. Pun intended.) Those latter two are dorks. There’s an important dork/nerd overlap, but they’re not the same thing. Still, it’s a good piece.

Interested in seeing nerds in a natural habitat? Like a bar? In an unhip area of town? Come to The Laughing Man Tavern at 6 p.m. tonight to watch me and Julian Sanchez and Tom McClusky and Marvel’s Mike O’Sullivan talk about the intersection of politics and comic books. I was up most of the night caring for a sick dog and what I’m going to say about Civil War and the Mutant Registration Act came to me while cleaning a steaming pile of dog vomit. That’s nerdery.

Something my friend Erin Polgreen pointed out — and here’s where I tie this all together — there really need to be more women comic nerds speaking on panels like these. Come on people. io9 is the best nerdblog around and its editorship is largely female. I am proud to associate with many women comic-book nerds in the national Capitol region.