tekiegreg's Journal: The new Match.com ad in Slashdot...

Ok, after seeing that Match.com has offered personal ads in partnership with Slashdot, I have to wonder, will it really work for us geeks? Granted the following:

1) Most of us don't want a bimbo, we'd like a girl that has brainpower equivalent to ours. A brief search of match.com as an impartial observer (I'm quite happily engaged) revealed few such women with real brainpower (go ahead, attack me on this then search for yourself...).
2) My general impression of the women on match.com was good looking, but highly demanding of their men. Enough to scare most geeks like myself away from asking them out with the "she's too high maintenance for me, not a good fit" thinking going around. Personals are not an outlet for geeks, or at least shouldn't be
3) Most geeks that I meet are not desperate for women that we'll take the first thing out there. Generally we like to evaluate a bit more as friends first. Geeks are shy, and easily intimidated by women. I generally valued myself in my single days as a guy who picked women I went out with very carefully. Yes I did have standards that while not unreasonable for women, had to be met. Women on match.com impressed me as something towards a "princess looking for prince charming" which not many geeks I know of aspire to be.
So if you're a geek, what do you do to meet women? Get away from the computer. I can't stress this enough. Join clubs, volunteer, go to church and do stuff that normal people do. Eventually someone interesting will come along, promise!