You are actually currently on the receiving end of anti-geek attitudes? I have been finding the opposite: the geek positive self definition seems so strong among many people I talk to, I think aspects of it may be becoming damaging.

Of course I agree that thinking is a good thing and no geek attributes should be discriminated against. However, a lot of geek community sentiment smacks of looking down on people who spend time with their TV sets and apparently do less thinking than 'us'. (I do not do much with computers myself except interwebs and Microsoft Office, so perhaps this impression is really me feeling excluded or something along those lines.)

I may write a post about this - would you mind me linking to this entry if I did?

"Currently" might be a bit strong; I had certainly encountered a surprising number of anti-geek attitudes at my company a few years ago when I was moved to write this rant, but it so happens that I can't remember encountering any recently. As I say at the top of the post, I published this now mostly because it came up in conversation with someone else this morning who had encountered related attitudes. So no, I'm not currently on the receiving end of this sort of thing to any noticeable extent, but I have no reason to think it's stopped existing in general.

You're welcome to link to this post, yes :-)