I’d like to refine CBCD’s statement to better reflect a certain harsher reality. It is more precise to say 'Any female can still get laid without any problems…as long as she’s not fat and hideous.
A “female geek” is attractive when she looks like Allison Hannigan or Tina Fey or Gillian Anderson. A hot chick who acts dopey or geeky like Amanda Peet, Jennifer Garner, Jenny McCarthy or Cameron Diaz is even hotter because not only are they super hot, but they seem like they would be fun to hang out with and not just a window dressing or bitchy princess.
A geeky chick whos 40 pounds overweight…not so cute.
You said it. In my experience, the best martial artist is going to be the dopy looking guy with the hockey hair, who’s sitting in a room by himself listening to Pat Benatar and toughening his shins up with a coke bottle filled with sand. People really get the wrong impression watching action movies. This is a hobby where having ocd really helps. It takes a special kind of person to enjoy spending friday nights practicing a thousand reverse punches instead of hanging out with actual human beings…and that person generally is not taking time out to improve social skills, listen to popular music or keep up with fashion.
[sub]Uh, before actual martial artists start in on me, keep in mind that I did 6 years of martial arts earlier in my life (no attention span for it now, sadly) and all of the above applied to me save the hockey hair.[/sub]
What, the writing of original science fiction (not fanfic) isn’t considered geeky? Or even the reading of science fiction in non-graphical form? I guess it’s considered legitimate art now, huh.
Hello, my name The Faerie and… I’m a geek. (Hello The Faerie!)
Comic Books - not so much, although I did enjoy the X-men during the late 80’s.
Role Playing - D&D 2nd Edition and an adapted version of some other RPG that a good friend came up with (many of the rules of the original game were recently included in the newest version of D&D, unfortunately I can’t remember what it was called.) for 17 some-odd years. Stopped for awhile, but am now playing with my original group from high-school when our busy adult lives allow us to get together.
Scrapbooking - No. But I do bead and quilt. Ooo, sparklies…
Star Wars - Was a huge fan of the original 3 movies, read some of the books (Splinter of the Mind’s Eye was one of the first books written after the original three). Not so much a fan of the newest stuff. Storyline too… stupid, and I think Lucas is making it up as he goes along.
Vampirism - Went to one Vampire LARP. Had a great time, but decided that I didn’t want to commit so much time and energy to it as my friend did.
Collectable Card Games - Played a couple, but never owned my own deck. I find them boring and waste too much money that can be spent on Fabric and Beads.
Ever-crack - No. I have a real life outside of my keyboard and monitor that I would much rather pay attention to. I love role-playing and I know that I would never stop once I started, so I never started.
Star-Trek - Nope. My dad is a Trekkie, though. Complete with costumes and obsessive collecting. So apparently it’s in my genes, but supressed.
Furries - Plushies - Ew. No. Not even sure why this is considered a geek thing.
LARP - I also consider the SCA to be LARP. I was in the SCA (Forgotten Sea, Calontir) for about 5 years in the mid-late 90’s, and would go back again if just for the costumes. I love to play dress-up. I was also a Rennie for a long time in my teens and then for a short time here recently.
Hmm. Looks like the tally is 3 of 10. Maybe I’m not as geeky as I thought. And I get laid as often as I want.
Well you have to figure that martial arts kids usually are getting beaten up all the time. That’s whay they study it.
I guess it’s not fair for me to criticize without exposing my own dorkosity:
Comic Books - Meh…not really my thing since Jr High.
Role Playing Games - Tried it once. Didn’t inhale
Scrapbooking - No.
Star Wars - Who doesn’t like Star Wars? I don’t dress up lor anything (I worked with a guy who wore Luke’s jacket to work. I’m all like “What the blurb in the J Crew catalogue say for that one? ‘Light, comfortible, perfect for back yard bar-b-qs on Tatooine or just hanging around the Hamptons.’”)
Vampirism - I have Blade on DVD. That’s it.
Collectible Card Games - No.
Everquest - I have enough trouple putting Simcity or Grand Theft Auto down. None for me thanks.
Star Trek - Wrath of Khan was pretty cool and at least the Borg don’t look like people painted green with a latex ass on their head. The rest is pretty dorky.
Furries/Plushies - Naw man. As far as I go would be a girl wearing those Playboy bunny outfits.
