I am very suspicious that your comment is knee-jerk based on thinking of people who annoy you, and not actually going to be very helpful.. how many geeks, who whine about women not wanting them, would you want if they _just_ stopped whining about that? I think that this is rarely, if ever, the primary factor that drives women away--more likely it's just one that you mentioned because it annoys you.. not because you thought it through and decided it's actually the primary factor that made you feel a lack of
To a certain degree I agree with you. The only thing I will say as devil's advocate here is that confidence rates more highly on the list of qualities that women find desirable. There are different value systems at play, here. Don't get me wrong, I still think your post makes an excellent point, and I don't disagree, but I think that whining is something that matters an extra percentage point or two to women.
Seriously -- all the whiny guys out there need to take a fifteen minute break from reading slashdot and go post a profile on Nerve.
Tell the truth about liking D&D, slashdot, etc. Some geek girl out there is just waiting to be your elf princess (and judging by the girls in my d&d group, she's probably pretty freakin' hot.)
but sitting in your room/basement writing custom operating systems and watching anime doesn't put you in much of a position to meet, much less court women.
So its not that women don't want geeks, its just that if the two never meet nothing happens, so the geeks just say that no women want them because that way it's not their fault.
What the geeks need to do is go where the girls are. The question of course is where are the girls. On that, I have no idea.
As a geek male I've noticed geek females are far more apt at 'disguising' their geek status. As men in general, we are poorly socialized from youth and are expected to continue in that vein forever either facing stigma or utter ostracism. Being a gentle soul as we tend to be; methinks, one would begin to suspect that perhaps a loss of any spirit has precluded our emotive contextual understandings from being interpreted as anything but alien to phillistines.
How many of us stare up at the stars and rumin
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being a geek doesn't turn off women... (Score:3, Insightful)
To all you whiners, if you want to get laid, I highly recommend getting over yourselves already.
Just trying to help. Flame away.
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being a geek does turn off women... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:being a geek does turn off women... (Score:1)
Re:being a geek doesn't turn off women... (Score:1)
Tell the truth about liking D&D, slashdot, etc. Some geek girl out there is just waiting to be your elf princess (and judging by the girls in my d&d group, she's probably pretty freakin' hot.)
Re:being a geek doesn't turn off women... (Score:1)
but sitting in your room/basement writing custom operating systems and watching anime doesn't put you in much of a position to meet, much less court women.
So its not that women don't want geeks, its just that if the two never meet nothing happens, so the geeks just say that no women want them because that way it's not their fault.
What the geeks need to do is go where the girls are. The question of course is where are the girls. On that, I have no idea.
Oh well...
Maybe when RFID's become u
Re:being a geek doesn't turn off women... (Score:1)
How many of us stare up at the stars and rumin