Comment Where To Meet a Girl (Score 1) 1354
Here's the deal: depending on what city you live in you might never meet a girl in a bar. I live in Los Angeles, and because 90% of guys who would ever go up to strange girls in a bar and talk to them are creepers, girls are automatically skeptical of any guy who will just talk to them. The odds just aren't good.
Here are some ideas, not that I'm an expert because I'm going to die alone with my cats, but I am a girl and I am a geek (albeit less socially inept than most).
1: don't be afraid to ask your friends to introduce you to their friends
2: Buy the ticket, take the ride. You're going to get invited to some pretty weird things in your life, coworker's concerts, weird art openings. Just go to them because you never know who you might meet. I went to karaoke sober at my asian co-worker's house, but ended up meeting a lot of cool people and now we hang out and do dinners once a month.
3: Online dating: it's not so taboo anymore, and if you can manage to meet some non-crazies, it could really work for you.
4: invite people to go do things: grab a bunch of people from work and go out to a bar or dinner, encourage them to invite their other friends. You should build a relationship by talking to them at work first, it's socially akward to just ask someone to hang out out of the blue.
5: Find one person who gets invited to a lot of parties, and then tag along. In my social circle I am this person, and as long as one of my friends is cool, I'm always up to invite them along to a party. I still live in the town where I went to college, so I end up with a lot of different invitations to go do things.
6. Take a class or join a club. You're more likely to met people at a book club, alumni event, or the Sierra club than you are if you just hang around on WoW waiting for someone to wink at you.