Re:If i was a girl.... (Score 5)

I guess it depends on the geeks. If you've got to be around teenage guys, I think the geeks are certainly better than the alternatives.

Maybe what we really need is for the media to just portray geeks in a better light and feature them in afternoon specials or whatever kids are watching these days.

I dated a bunch of geeks in high school and they were all sweet, polite, intelligent, and a lot of fun. They also seemed likely to want to spend the evening talking or doing something fun and frivolous (contrasting, it seems, to many guys who were only interested in sex.)

And certainly when trying to date, a 5 to 1 ratio is not a bad thing: at least from the 1 side ;-) Even if there are a few that that aren't yet ready for that level of social interaction, you've probably got your pick (and the rest are usually pretty trainable). I don't think any of my fellow female geeks ever had trouble finding dates. And we used to just laugh at the various complaints of the others about insensitive guys who never called.

Ah, well, perceptions can be so important. Maybe we need to start a date-a-geek campaign.

Maybe if we lure the young ones into math clubs and computer teams with thoughts of dating they'll fnd that the subject matter is pretty interesting too. I can just see the posters in the halls:

Join the math team - 5 guys to every girl

Need a prom date? Come to the next chess club meeting.

Or maybe I'm just getting a little silly now. :-)

Chaosnymph - (who recommends geeks to all her friends)