With the exception of appealing to a potential silicon valley soon to be millionaire why would a woman desire to appeal to a geeks nature ?
I'm gonna get so killed for this, but one of the reason geeks are geeks is because there social ineptness allows for incredible amounts of free time to work on stuff like Linux ? or hacking my iPhone.
I think you have it backwards - the types of interests that appeal to the geek crowd don't typically lend themselves to a lot of social interaction, as opposed to say group sports - hence the social ineptness. Essentially the lack of social skills is due lack of practice...some people are better at it than others, but it's not completely an innate ability....it can be learned.
Oh yea. When it comes to socializing, us geeks are terrible because we can't relate on the intellectual level of most people. Most people, tend to talk about nothing but sports and those people seem to look like these guys to us.
Although after getting a job and being surrounded by a few more others who are interested in technology (plus the boom in it), socializing and being a geek is a thing of the past, if not a new fad. Hell, all the kids use cell phones and play games on their cell phones now (I remem
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why would a woman want to be a geek goddess ?? (Score:2)
With the exception of appealing to a potential silicon valley soon to be millionaire why would a woman desire to appeal to a geeks nature ?
I'm gonna get so killed for this, but one of the reason geeks are geeks is because there social ineptness allows for incredible amounts of free time to work on stuff like Linux ? or hacking my iPhone.
Re:why would a woman want to be a geek goddess ?? (Score:1)
I think you have it backwards - the types of interests that appeal to the geek crowd don't typically lend themselves to a lot of social interaction, as opposed to say group sports - hence the social ineptness. Essentially the lack of social skills is due lack of practice...some people are better at it than others, but it's not completely an innate ability....it can be learned.
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Although after getting a job and being surrounded by a few more others who are interested in technology (plus the boom in it), socializing and being a geek is a thing of the past, if not a new fad. Hell, all the kids use cell phones and play games on their cell phones now (I remem