Right, you're the typical burly Alpha Male geek -- who spends his weekend posting on Slashdot. Seems like SUV safety isn't the only thing you're delusional about.
I hate to single you out, because a lot of the the people replying to me have said something similar. But this has got to be one of the stupidest things about white male geek culture that I know of. There are plenty of geeks out there who are successful with women. But the crowd, the community, takes it as an article of faith that this is impossible. Instead of learning from the haves, the have-nots project their own inadequacies on the haves, and say stupid, untruthful, things like "I belong to a community that precludes me from being attractive to females." This is called setting yourself up for failure. It cripples you before you even leave the gate.
Attraction is a different calculus for men than it is for women. A women is either attractive or not. There isn't much she can do about it except get fat. Not so with a man. A man's attractiveness is based on what he does, who he is in the community, and how he behaves towards women. And there is nothing a woman wants more than confidence in a man, not money, not beauty, not status. Supreme self-confidence is the most important quality a man can have in the attraction game.
Okay, back to SUVs. Drive whatever you want. My biggest point is that it's always stupid to bow down to what women tell you they want. Drive something characteristic. Quality helps, expensive helps, flashy helps. Just remember that the vehicle that you drive is a statement about your status, and one that women will always pick up on.
