I discovered TBBT through a friend who nicknamed me 'Sheldon' due to my tendency to be somewhat socially awkward, geeky, and sharing some of Sheldon's OCDs. I

I discovered TBBT through a friend who nicknamed me 'Sheldon' due to my tendency to be somewhat socially awkward, geeky, and sharing some of Sheldon's OCDs. I fell in love with the show, and I don't really agree with the conclusions of the article. I don't feel like the writers are making fun of me, and I certainly don't feel that Penny is the 'normal' and cool character in the show. She's an underachiever, has a borderline drinking problem and poor choice in boyfriends before she met Leonard. Yes, there is a self-deprecating component to all this. The characters are caricatures of various nerdy personalities, but I find them lovable, and I can relate to some of what happens to them. I can laugh at myself, at my fondness for Star Trek, at my awkwardness in public, at my OCDs, at my love for everything technical and my interest in sciences. Being able to laugh at yourself is a strength, not a weakness. What if others are watching the show and believe that it is to be taken at face value? Why should I care? These nerds are successful scientists who work on the Mars Rover program, fly into space and go on adventures to the North Pole while Penny -the supposedly normal and cool character- is waiting tables in a dead-end job, shows no real passion for anything apart from shoes and it going nowhere. Anyway, it's just a show. Some like it, some hate it. I personally don't think it fuels such a negative view of what nerds are. Maybe it's a caricature that some may take at face value but I'm not worried about that, the joke's on them really and they don't even know it.