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Originally Posted by DewMan
Yeah, this whole fascination with geeks really torques me off now.
20 years ago, I was a geek in HS. People found my fascination with computers and techy stuff to be a real turn off. If I mentioned video games, techy toys (watches and calculators were about it at the time), modems, BBS's, and later the Internet, to any member of the opposite sex and, man, watch her run for the hills.
If I were in HS now, I'd be the f*cking king of the hill and I haven't changed since HS.
Actually, I think my smarts intimidated them more than anything (I had an older girlfriend of an older friend tell me that once).
I guess I was just ahead of my time. |
Believe me when I say that is NOT the case at all. The whole geek love thing is definitely more of a 20+ phenomenon, when people are less insecure and psychotic. If you were in HS now, you'd be in a similar boat to before (maybe a little higher in the water, but very similar).
I think one of the reasons people are attracted to nerds is that they're passionate about something generally. Nerdliness is sort of defined by unhealthy obsession with something or another (you can be smart an un-nerdly, and you can be lacking in social skills and un-nerdly; they just happen to stereotypically come with the territory), and as such, most of the nerds whom I've known who stayed true to form were very energetic when probed in the right way (I may even fit into the category
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Plus, I personally think nerdy girls can be really cute. I like people who might seem a little strange or akward, because then I don't feel quite so akward and strange myself.