# Geeky Guys are Hot! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948 "2009-05-10T15:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/41 "2009-05-12T19:56:43Z")
Where were you 15-20 years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/42 "2009-05-12T20:05:34Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Where were you 15-20 years ago? In school. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Squeaker\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Squeaker\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squeaker_Snow)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/43 "2014-02-22T20:53:49Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > I agree that geeky guys are hot. Plus, if you accompany them on a pilgrimage to the giant comic book store, they will reward you for your patience by buying and painting you miniatures.😃 Then you can stage little battles at your desk. Just revisiting this thread! I need to add that my husband (who retired and now holds the title: “Professor Emeritus”), takes me on dates to the comic book store and adds to my collection of vintage Lois Lane comic books on a regular basis. Better than roses in my book! _SIGH_ ---
**Author:** ![Yellow\_Kazooie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecd19e/32.png) [@Yellow\_Kazooie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yellow_Kazooie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/44 "2014-02-22T21:20:12Z")
Probably because you are a geeky girl. Geeky girls tend to like people of the same species ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/45 "2014-02-22T22:02:42Z")
I only like the cool nerd type, like Pharrell and Zach Braff and Donald Glover. ---
**Author:** ![Gateway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@Gateway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gateway)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/46 "2014-02-22T22:39:49Z")
> [@Squeaker\_Snow](#): > > What is it about smart guys that is so darned sexy? I have always been attracted to the slightly rumpled, bespectacled, smart-boys. (I even married me a professor!) It started young…no athlete ever looked at me in high school (unless a guy who played basketball for the local Latin School counts!), but the entire chess team panted over me. > > For me, smart equals capable. Nerdy conversations (within reason) that fly over my head amuse me to no end and I love their earnestness. Nerds are very straightforward. Plus, I love the way they push their glasses further up their noses when they get nervous. Cute. > > Other’s opinions? Hmm, very smart people are attractive because on one level I believe you are into intelligence for yourself, meaning you value intelligence for your own self. It is a part of your value system. It is home for you, so where another might just find a smart guy a square, you find people who are very smart your style and like them a lot. The law of liking those who are similar to you, or at least are perceived as similar. Plus, intelligence in general is attractive. It can lead to better conversations, more money, better survival ability, and in this light they are seen to not only have good genes, but also be in a better place to be a father. How do you hunt an animal well or start a fire if you are dumb, and in these days how do you make a lot of money if you lack the smarts to do it. It can be seen as an indicator of a flaw with the mind if you lack intelligence, and in general flaws aren’t sexy. There is also a theory that we go for people that we like people who our parents are like, so it is possible then that you at a young age at least got used to your parents being very smart, or possibly hung out with nerds or something to where it got into you when you were young. ---
**Author:** ![Yellow\_Kazooie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecd19e/32.png) [@Yellow\_Kazooie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yellow_Kazooie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/47 "2014-02-22T23:12:14Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > Funny, I think geeky girls are hot. Uhh being geeky doesn’t make anyone hot. There are some damn ugly geek girls. Unfortunatly, most cute girls who claim to be a nerd are usually posers and all they do is watch the big bang theory ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/48 "2014-02-23T04:38:38Z")
> [@Squeaker\_Snow](#): > > What is it about smart guys that is so darned sexy? I have always been attracted to the slightly rumpled, bespectacled, smart-boys. (I even married me a professor!) It started young…no athlete ever looked at me in high school (unless a guy who played basketball for the local Latin School counts!), but the entire chess team panted over me. > > For me, smart equals capable. Nerdy conversations (within reason) that fly over my head amuse me to no end and I love their earnestness. Nerds are very straightforward. Plus, I love the way they push their glasses further up their noses when they get nervous. Cute. That makes you a “sapiosexual”. > [@Sunspace](#): > > Where were these geek-loving girls when I was in school? ☹ Yeah, really! Well actually, they were there. They just didn’t look like Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie. I wasted a lot of my youth before I learned to look for the beauty rather than the flaws. I did manage to spend a lot of the resulting free time learning to play music and program computers, so it wasn’t a total waste. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/49 "2014-02-23T05:23:14Z")
And, ironically, I am now back at school. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948/50 "2014-02-24T01:10:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > And, ironically, I am now back at school. 🙂 Let us know if it’s a myth. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeky-guys-are-hot/495948.md?page=2)