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Yeah, do you have any idea how hard it is to find a female geek??

OMG PPL LIEK ME!!1!  MAEK THEM STOP!!1

Please...

depeachmood wrote:

You know what I'm smurfing tired of? Guys latching on to me because I'm a girl and I like computers.

tF

:sigh: yeah, they are kind of pathetic.

But some of the time, it's not just because you're a geek - it's because you're female. In a lot of circles, that in and of itself is a novelty and what's between your ears (impressive as it is, I'd like to add) isn't really the issue. I spent two years in computer science courses, and during that time, I had the same three conversations.

1) The Star Trek/Wars conversation.
2) The Naked Star ____ Character conversation.
3) The "my computer is biger than yours" conversation.

These are not, by and large, people who know how to conduct themselves in social settings.

depeachmood wrote:

You know what I'm smurfing tired of? Guys latching on to me because I'm a girl and I like computers. Get the smurf over it. Leave me the smurf alone.

God smurfing dammit.

Actually, it's just because you're so damn HOT!

Jokes...

nannyandnutro wrote:

I also think men are attracted to girls who have a general characteristic that's outside of the norm. That might be an interest in computers, video games, porn-whatever.  It's good to have a real personality.

Agreed. It's like being a female musician. Most musicians (at least on a certain level) are male and when a female musician is introduced into the mix, things get bad, fast.

Depeachmood, you're young, good looking and intelligent. Get out of the computer circle to find guys. Either that or talk about everything but 'geek' stuff, just to weed out the latcher-ons. If that doesn't work, tell them to back the smurf off.

I was going to suggest you tell them you're gay but that would only encourage them.

When I was your age, I discovered that they weren't interested at all in what I said, but the fact that we had something in common gave them an oppurtunity to carry their half of the converstion, instead of stuttering around and making their lack of social graces painfully obvious.

At that point I realized I could yack and yack and yack on about absolutley nothing (it helps that I'm blonde) until their eyes glazed over, but there they'd sit, nodding and smiling enthusiastically, having no clue where to go from there.

Eventually this attention from men tapers off, but unless you get fat or have 6 toddlers clinging to your skirt, not until yo hit 40 or so.

My husband told me he watched a guy at Target fall in love with me when I said aloud, "Hey, check out the Torchic on these kids' cups!" Yeah, I like videogames too.

Yeah Peach, I know what you mean.  The instant I mention my PowerBook in a bar, all the ladies start to bug me and stuff.  It's rough, but we have to be strong and not let them get to us.

I married a girl with looks and brains. Unfortunately, she is utterly uninterested in computers beyond basic word processing and joke forwarding.

I sometimes fantasize about an evening spent discussing hardware specifications, backside cache and bandwidth with Jessica Simpson. Then I realize she would think I'm talking dirty and slap me. Poof. I wake up.

Justine is right. Look at MacNuke's avatar. You never hear him complaining about getting hit on.

<hits on peach>