Friday List: Hot Geek Girls!

Top of the list is Kari Byron from Mythbusters. Not only is she adorably cute, she likes to blow stuff up.

/swoon

Danica McKeller (Winnie Cooper from Wonder Years). Gorgeous and she's a math genuis. Also Heddy Lamar, also gorgeous and co-inventor of missle guidance system.

Sara Gilbert (Big Bang Theory, Roseanne).

Liz Vassey (CSI, The Tick).

Off the top of my head: Danica McKellar, Ana Marie Cox, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman....

Alyson Hannigan, Jewel Staiate and Amy Acker. All Whedon alums, all geeky and all hot.

Gillian Anderson may be the godmother of hot geek girls (and she's still hot).

I'm kinda digging Rachael Maddow even though she plays for the other team.

I would also include Sarah Chalke from Scrubs.

Lisa Loeb.

Seconding Sara Gilbert.

I second Alyson Hannigan and add Natalie Morales from 'The Middleman.'

I'd add Mindy Kaling. Does Kristen Bell count? Or did she just play geek on TV?

Alicia Witt, who plays a mean classical piano.

I second Kari Byron. Although I am seriously wondering if cgoff is my husband... He is in LOVE with that girl.

I think Kristen Bell should count. Chances are the majority of these actresses just play geeks on TV. Off camera I'm sure none of them would be able to tell you the value of Pi or the atomic weight of adamantium.

I read at io9 that Kristen Bell seems to really get geek culture, so that gives her some cred in this category.

I would add Kidada Jones and Maya Rudolph to the list.

Well lets see... Mila Kunis has a World of Warcraft character (and actually plays)... but Kari is certainly the top of the geek girl list. Geeky girls are about 'action' not 'being in some show that has geeks'.
There are lots of extremely bright starlets who just dont end up doing 'geek' stuff like WoW, they're off snogging Christiano Ronaldo or somesuch instead.

I agree Alyson Hannigan and Amy Acker have to be on the list.

How about Sandra Bullock? Or is that just the characters she plays.

Danica McKeller really is a math genius.

If you are going by the characters they play, Emily Deschanel, but otherwise not.

Natalie Portman.

Rashida Jones.

Claire Danes.

Jodie Foster.

Pauley Perrette (Abby on NCIS) sure plays a hot geek; don't know anything about her real life however.

She's jailbait, but Emma Watson seems to be pretty bright.

America Ferrara? She's cute! Christiane Amanpour?

Amy Matthews of HGTV's "Sweat Equity", Amy Winn Pastor formerly of Trading Spaces, and several other hot chicks who rock tool belts.

I've met Sally Ride. Obviously astrophysicists are geeks. She is also hott.

Ellen Page - though I think she also pitches for both teams.

Would Maura Tierney qualify? If so, that's my nomination.

Emma Watson is 19. Not that I should know that.

I like Christiane Amanpour. But I'm wondering whether wonkiness qualifies as geekiness. If it does, I'd have to include Condi Rice. And perhaps Michelle Obama, although she obviously oprahs above anyone else in the political realm.

Veronica Belmont (multiple web shows, video game geek and host of Qore) and Felicia Day (the Guild, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog) would have to be on such a list. They are both smart, funny and beautiful, not to mention total geeks. In the hot geek newscaster category CNET's Molly Wood (host of the Buzz Report) would be leading the list.

Kristen Vangsness' character Penélope Garcia on "Criminal Minds"?

Recently saw a brief profile on TV re Pauley Perette, who had a commitment ceremony with her (male) SO instead of a wedding in protest of California's passage of Prop. 8. She wore a gorgeous vintage dress she'd bought years earlier at a thrift shop.

Sorry, Christiane Amanpour is a tool. I heard her give a talk on American policy in the Middle East (to a group of grad students in the field), and her entire discussion was the State Department's party line. There was literally no critical thought involved. That was shortly after her marriage to the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. Pure coincidence, I'm sure.

How about an actual scientist: evolutionary biologist and writer, Olivia Judson, author of "Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to all Creation."

northgs,

If they were grad students in American policy, they shoulda been able to pick right up on the toolishness. I disagree with almost everything Condi Rice says or has said, but I still gotta say she's a hot geek, or wonk if you prefer.

It gladdens my geek heart to know you guys find us attractive. YAY. Of course my 'baby daddy' loves it when I do the hair in a bun/horned rim glasses look, he says it slays him.

Long live hot geek girls!

Reddragon, the toolishness was definitely a topic of conversation in the student lounge afterwards! That seeming inability to think independently is what DQs Ms. Amanpour, whereas Condi Rice is a PhD political scientist. Arguably, she's capable of independent thought; Stanford doesn't typically hire or promote idiots. Not that I agree with her politically, though.

Lisa Kudrow has a BS in Biology from Vassar. Hotness not to be contested.

DLD

olivia munn - the original 'geek goddess' ..

go G4

Stacey London...she graduated with a double major in German philosophy and literature from Vassar and was Phi Beta Kappa. AND she knows how to dress....

Long live hot geek girls!

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What she said.

How about Alison Janney of West Wing fame?

northgs, OK, you win. This is a really wierd day in which I have defended Miley Cyrus (!) and withdrawn my support of Christiane. Not sure if that constitutes a BKD for me or not. Better check my Lizicon. Or go try to arrest Jessica Alba, even if she has apologized.

Reddragon, the lovely Ms. Alba has done enough comic-based work to qualify as an honorary geek, I think. ;)

There's a lot of blurring of geekiness with other qualities here.

Anyway - what about:

- Sarah Vowell (ultimate Geek but not exactly romantically attractive - but still fascinating)
- Samantha Bee
- Lisa Ling
- Nadira Hira

You see - I don't ee how girls in tool belts are geeks. Kind of the opposite, no? I mean they're not Barbies, but they're not geeks.

And I thought Danicka McKellar just liked math. I didn't think she was truly a "genius." If she is, shoudln't she be working on impossible equations rather than doing PR work trying to get girls into math? I mean she's definitely a geek and it's notable she likes math, but genius? Really?

Cindy Crawford - was class valedictorian at her high school graduation. She was also enrolled in Chicago's Northwestern University to take a degree in chemical engineering before dropping out to do modeling. I think that qualifies her as a geek!

Amy Sedaris!

I don't know about geeky, but Amber Tamblyn is quirky and cute. And dating David Cross, so that adds to her geek cred.

Reddragon, the lovely Ms. Alba has done enough comic-based work to qualify as an honorary geek, I think. ;)

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There is a difference between being a geek that men lust over and being a woman that geeks lust over. Jessica Alba is the latter, as is Angelina Jolie, aka Lara Croft.

Beneath the black leather of Dark Angel and the invisible undies of Mrs. Fantastic there is still just a dopey but hot brain-dead actress.

She's sometimes a little too strident for my tastes, but I've always kinda had a thing for Janeane Garofalo.

Are men ever described as strident?

I liked her til she did the Oprah interview during "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" and there was this big "But you ARE pretty" moment. Ugh. Painful lack of self-confidence. Human, but not hot.

I'd say the "godmother" of hot geek girls is Kate Jackson, the smart Angel.

Condi Rice hot? On what planet?

There is also the whole tech newsbabe sub-group, which in addition to Veronica Belmont and Molly Wood includes Amanda Congdon and Natalie Del Conte.

Soledad O'Brien got her big break doing an MSNBC tech show called 'The Site', so I would include her on that list.

Emma Thompson. So smart and yet so hot.
Sharon Stone - apparantly started college at age 15 and has very high IQ
Shakira - apparently a member of MENSA

Are men ever described as strident?

No, but they are commonly described as wimps.

Smart =/= geek.

Sharon Stone will never ever be a geek. And nobody has mentioned the goth hacker chick on NCIS? I don't even watch the show and I have the hots for her.

Noted climate change scientist Judith Lean.
Here's a photo: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/images/reference/Judith-Lean.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/reference/bios/judith_lean_bio.html&usg=__olrhUIoajSCxEseooMEhR20KULQ=&h=376&w=325&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&sig2=T2EL54wBqya7UBsQkXntrA&um=1&tbnid=deMCSvxViSUD2M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djudith%2Blean%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=gbsySuT5LJLMM6n91PoJ

ugh. sorry.
here: http://tinyurl.com/n9dnpl

It didn't take long for me to find RFK Jr, Samuel Alito, Jerry Falwell, Jon Stewart, Warren Beatty (and plenty more) all referred to as "strident". And a fair number of men are called "shrill", too.

But I think that it's fair to say that both terms are used more often to describe women. Does that make the use of the words less legitimate, do you think?

Bobsewell, glad to hear it is used for men sometimes. I would prefer other words that seem more gender-neutral, but that's just me. I'll tell you how I prefer that you talk. I'm strident like that.

Danica McKellar graduated UCLA with a degree in mathematics, co-authored a scientific paper with a professor and a fellow student, and wrote a book called "Math Doesn't Suck". I'd say that qualifies her for geekness.

I'd like to nominate Amy Mainzer, astrophysicist at JPL. http://images.google.com/images?q=amy+mainzer

Many of the women nominated don't seem to really be geeks. Probably because geeks tend to be a little introverted, and introverts don't typically become famous. But I'll definitely support anyone who has published a peer-reviewed paper in mathematics (Danica McKellar).

Seconding Felicia Day as both hot and geeky. Her web series, The Guild, is a little bit of online gaming/Youtube brilliance.

I thought geeky was more "quirky looks" along with intelligence, thus eliminating women like Cindy Crawford and Nathalie Portman. You wouldn't consider smart, extraordinarily good-looking guys as geeks.

So I was thinking of Janeane Garafalo and Thora Birch in the movie Ghost World.

American tech blogger/Wired reporter/Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeni_Jardin

Sarah Palin, anybody? Anybody?

Sarah Palin is as dumb as a post. Hot, but dumb.

Morgan Webb is the original geek/game "chick" - so that's my vote

Zoey Daschanel

Yeah! Pauley Perrette (Abby on NCIS)

Geena Davis. Sharon Stone as well in private life. Amy White from the band, "West Indian Girl." Katie Couric believe it or not. Porn Star Asia Carrera (Allegedly a big Unreal Tournament player in the 90's and early 00's)

This is not a list I should be looking at while working. I agree with MOST of the names here. But I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jolene Blalock. She's practically MADE her career doing Sci-fi once run tv shows and B-movies. And let's not forget that she plays a VULCAN!

(pardon the caps. On my 4th cup of coffee)

Tilda Swinton.