Girls and geeks....(Branched off from the thread on girls on TDF)

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AcceleratorX

Youngling
I was reading this thread a little:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/chit-chat/155836-tdf-female-users.html

and some of the stuff I found was....unnerving. Maybe it's because most of the users here are very young, but a few things I really want to clarify are listed below:

1) Yes, there are girls on the internet and on forums. They don't stick around for long mainly because they are slower at typing than us and it's more boring when you're taking longer to post a reply while the guys there can do it near-instantaneously (a little practice will solve that, though)

2) The comment on Amy Farrah Fowler was a little unnerving. I don't watch Big Bang Theory, but I've been through enough to know that personality matters 100 times more than looks. Comments like "eww" aren't in good taste, even as jokes (perhaps it's just me, but....)

3) I don't think that most girls really hate geeks. It's just that you can tell someone's a geek from one look, and geeks behave a little oddly at times (come on, do not deny!). Girls like a nice guy regardless of personality, but you must be able to hold a conversation - what use is talking about touch pads and the latest games when she cannot make head or tail of it? :)

4) Gamer girls do exist, but like I said, they don't like fast paced games too much (mainly because of finger stress). For that reason you'd find a lot more girls in racers and roleplaying games than in something like COD4.

5) As for Vyom's post about laws......well, it's true to some extent but not if you choose your girlfriend carefully. Not all girls are just clamoring to get money out of you, that is just false.

6) Girls are not impatient as many of you may think. A lot of them are just insecure. Insecurity at young age is common for girls and I don't want to get into details but there are issues there that I will not discuss now.

Girls are very patient when they trust the guy.

An important thing is that, for girls: Trust is the number 1 priority in any relationship (friendship, love, etc.)
For guys, getting the job done (any job) takes priority (in general). Trust and other factors come after that.

I just wanted to clarify a few things for you guys because I've been noticing that every time one of these girl related threads come up, people really aren't doing them justice.

If a moderator feels right to close this thread, please do so, I have no objection. I just wanted to get my message across. :)
 

pranav0091

I am not an Owl
Location: 'The new world'
Guess its a nice place if all are like you ;)

Agree with everything.
But guess this thread should be closed anyways, before it gets all out of hand.
 

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
Your points are correct, but let's face the kids (mentally more like physically), the despos and the idiots here don't even have half a brain. No point of clarifying to them.
But right now this thread is fine. But I very well know it will eventually turn crap due to such people.
 

Soumik

Padawan
Great time pass topic to be discussed here. :p
Seriously.. girls interested in gadgets are not impossible to find. I have so many friends who discuss gadgets with me. Surely, they are more excited abt the looks and raw performance, rather than whats the new tech involved, or pixels or how many cores are there in the GPU/CPU. They are "interested" in these stuff and definitely read forums like this one. They are afraid of posting cause... there seriously arent any girl posts here, and they are intimidated by all the tech discussion happening. Doesnt mean there arent any female audience of this forum. :)
Anyways.. what i wanted to say is tht.. I'd be more than happy to have an intelligent smart and understanding gf like Amy Farrah Fowler. Call me crazy, but i like her character... :p
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
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uh those rpg gamer girls are either 1) aunties or 2) kids and many of them are men too
isnt no girls on teh interwebs one of the rules?
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
Staff member
Admin
^yeah? why nothing wrong so far can think of about 10 worse threads... where people are going to town... sometimes one word at a time
 

Soumik

Padawan
I missed the point on girl gamers.. Seriously.. u guys need to watch the international gaming events.
My company held a gaming tournament 2 years back.. and the winning team in CS had a couple (a boy-girl couple who are now engaged).
Girls can definitely be good in games. Not sure y u guys have such an impression. And am talking serious games here... The FB social games probably have a 75% female players base. :p
 

sarthak

In the zone
Girls hate geeks ??? 2 months into college a senior told me "Geeks get the chicks here" ;) But I didn't find it completely true.
And in school I did see some girl gamers from girls schools during IT fest playing CS. They didn't play well though.
 
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pkkumarcool

Game & anime Lover
didnt got a chance yesterday to express my feelings coz moderators had already closed the thread.Well IMO such type of threads are necessary makes u a human again brings emotions not like everytym posting problems i have this problem then this and so on.....life is not about computers only.There should be a sticky seperate forum for all this and i wanna ask what will u choose a girlfriend or a hightech gadget?i would always prefer gf..
 

a_k_s_h_a_y

Dreaming
good you opened this, i wanted to post in the last thread, but it got closed, let me ready my post now... am very lazy right now.
Its more about women in tech..
 

Sarath

iDota
OK I have to put this through. Lets not stereotype girls. For all we know, many girls might share the exact same interests as a guy would, only that they are in a lot less, like very very less in number.

The one's that are need not necessarily be wearing thick cylindrical glasses, wearing braces, be uber slow in typing and need not necessarily know less than a guy about everything.

Also you wont see them on forums 'coz of the predatory behaviour prevalent in most forums.

Also "girls don't like geeks" is a myth. I think that is not even a criteria they consider.

This thread won't run long. ;)
 

R2K

In the Zone
Calm down !! Sure....There are girl geeks out there.. :D
But I don't understand why the hell did almost all of a sudden almost all the members got so upset about girl geeks.
And I'm sure most of those comments posted on the other thread were not supposed to be taken seriously.
 
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pranav0091

I am not an Owl
will u choose a girlfriend or a hightech gadget?i would always prefer gf..
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lol, what kind of comparision is that? :lol:
a dumb electronic gadget vs a alive, breathing human?
I'd decided not to post here again, couldnt help myself when I saw that.:rofl:
 

pkkumarcool

Game & anime Lover
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lol, what kind of comparision is that? :lol:
a dumb electronic gadget vs a alive, breathing human?
I'd decided not to post here again, couldnt help myself when I saw that.:rofl:

actually you didnt got my point some do actually will prefer to spend time on high end gadgets like ps3 or gaming pcs rather than to spend time with their gfs also i meant to say that these thread are necessary in tdf as they bring curiosity...

hmm...so if the analogy that's girls don't like geeks..ten 90% of us wouldn't have a GF :p

yup its really universal fact
geekness is inversely proportional to having gf...
 
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AcceleratorX

Youngling
How the hell did this thread become about gfs and love when all I wanted was to talk about the general attitude towards females on some of these threads? :)

While I'm aware a lot of you want or already have girlfriends, we don't need to look at every member of the opposite sex like he or she is the next target to "woo" for becoming our partners.

This is odd....Come on guys, we don't want everyone talking about how "sexy" or "cool" a gal is and talk about gfs, there are enough threads about that.

I was thinking more along the lines of trying to bust some misconceptions about girls/women and clarify doubts about interaction between girls and geeks.

(as well as the "geek girl" concept)
(Wow, this almost seems like a primal hunt is going on.....joke :) )
 
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