BREAKING: Miss USA Has Seen Star Wars
The mass media is freaking out over the fact that the newly crowned Miss USA is a nerd. An attractive girl? Who enjoys Star Wars? That’s unpossible! Someone grab my monocle, it flew across the room in surprise! Now, I don’t want to start up any of the traditional nerd girl debates, for two reasons: 1) Miss USA actually kind of denies being a nerd in this video, so I don’t think anybody can accuse her of pandering to nerds. She’s just a girl who happens to like Star Wars. 2) The real reason I’m posting it is because of how Access Hollywood absolutely loses their shit over the fact that Miss USA can answer incredibly basic questions about A New Hope. Holy shit! It’s like she’s seen the movie, and enjoyed it! She can remember the names of actors, characters, and even the movie’s title! Access Hollywood is always wretched, but they’re very indicative of the rest of mass media’s fascination with a beauty queen who is even the tiniest bit nerdy. Maybe one day we’ll live in a world where a beauty queen who enjoys Star Wars isn’t treated like a monkey who can dance, but clearly this is not that day.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.