Final Essay
I decided that the time had come to finally get that college edjumacation that I have heard so much about. My first class was English 1A with Professor Gordon Ross at San Francisco City College. I would like to share with you my final essay.
This one goes out to the single geeks out there....
Geek Love
We women are on a perpetual search for the perfect man. He must be everything that is honestly unrealistically attainable in a single person. Someone who looks like either Brad Pitt or George Clooney incarnated, who will sweep us off our feet, pee in a toilet without any splashes or spills, take us off to Paris once a month to go shopping, and cuddle on command. In our search, we tend to over look certain men, the ones we think of as geeks. But geeks make even better boyfriends than non-geeks.
The first misconception I hear from women is that geeks are boring. Well, they aren’t! They do have other interests besides computers…honestly! As a geek girlfriend, you will be treated to dates that are not only fun but mentally stimulating. That moonlit stroll will be punctuated with the merits of string theory, the most recent project they worked on for NASA or a laser pointer presentation of the constellations. Dinner will be peppered with stories of pranks pulled in college like liquid nitrogen frozen pumpkins being dropped off the Millikin Library for Halloween, going out into the middle of the desert to blow up common items with explosives, and the time they got manhandled into every shower in their dorm with all their clothes on. They also have more mundane interests such as movies, books, music, food and wine. But they plunge headlong into these subjects so really, it is never a dull moment with a geek.
Another commonly held belief against dating geeks is that that they are socially inept. While I wish I could deny it, this is mostly true, except for some very rare exceptions. Now before you say this is a deal breaker, consider this: most of their lack of social skills comes from a lack of proper socialization into mainstream society. Geeks tend to have a geek pack mentality. They stick with their own kind where they feel comfortable discussing the mathematical benefits of …pretty much everything. Geeks will want to please their girlfriends more than anything else, so can be taught social graces, though it may take a while. Also in comparison, your social skills will look fabulous.
Even geeks themselves know that they are not the best communicators. If you have a problem with them, you may hear about it in an email instead of in person. When they do talk, geeks can be pretty blunt, but it doesn’t come from a malicious place like it does with non-geek men. But this, again, can be worked around. You have to be crystal clear and not mince works with geeks. Geeks don’t get hints. For example, if you don’t like something they are wearing and mention “Honey, that shirt doesn’t look good on you” they will not get the hint that they should take it off. If you say “take that shirt off and put on the blue polo that I put out on the bed” they will understand you better. The upside of being socially inept is that geeks will not play mind games with girls. They just don’t know how. Also, if you want something done, like having a geek take out the trash, getting flowers, or taking a vacation, you can email him, and you can be relatively confident it will get done. On the other hand, with a non-geek, something like telling him to take out the trash will involve lots of nagging and the possibility of it not getting done.
The benefits of dating a geek really outweigh the all the negatives. Though there may be more negatives than I have mentioned, most of them can be dealt with fairly easily. Now that we have seen that the bad isn’t all that bad, we can see what common benefits you can expect from dating a geek .
If you date a geek, you will always have 24-hour tech support on speed dial. In this high tech world this can come in handy. Geeks take pride in being able to help you through a technical crisis. They also have some of the best toys, so you are always going to be on the cutting edge of technology. As an example, he will have, an Xbox 360, a Nintendo Wii, an HD TIVO series 3, and a 58” plasma television with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound at home, as the most basic audio-visual set up in his living room and complain that he needs to upgrade. He will also make sure that you are decked out in the latest tech gear too. Your cell phone may be his hand-me-down, but it will be a gently used, two month old mobile phone that will do everything including making toast, which will not come out in the United States until next year.
Geeks are also a lot more romantic than non-geeks. They do the regular things like send flowers to your office, but included will be a love poem composed in C++. They will also usually declare their undying love for you on the Internet by composing a blog post celebrating you, which you can then share with all your girlfriends to make them jealous. Geeks are also very thoughtful. They will listen to your conversation, remember the little things you say and will surprise you with some thing that you mentioned you wanted two months ago for no good reason except you said you wanted it.
Geeks will also try really hard in the bedroom, much more so than non-geeks. The females of the species mostly ignore them when they are young, so they tend to obsess about sex. Once that obsession is coupled with the desire to please you at all costs, it is not hard to imagine the outcome. Geeks also take direction really well, so if something isn’t working for you, all you have to do is let them know what you want them to do, and they will do it, without any hard feelings. For all this pleasure, they do not ask for much in return. They are just happy to actually be having sex (with something other than an inanimate object.)
The question now is where do I find that hunk of burning geek love? There is a secret location nestled in the foothills of Pasadena, called The California Institute of Technology. This place manufactures the best geeks on the West Coast. These people, collectively known as Techers, are everything one thinks a stereotypical geek should be and more (their median SAT scores are 1460 to 1570.) After they graduate from school, they tend to migrate to the good tech jobs in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco. If you can find one of these Techer guys, you have hit the proverbial geek jackpot.
Geeks don’t have the best reputations as Casanovas, but they try harder than any other group to be that perfect man. I have dating both geeks and non-geeks, and I definitely prefer geeks. All I am suggesting is that women who wouldn’t normally date a geek, should give geeks a chance. They will be the best boyfriend/husband that you will ever mould to your own will.
This one goes out to the single geeks out there....
Geek Love
We women are on a perpetual search for the perfect man. He must be everything that is honestly unrealistically attainable in a single person. Someone who looks like either Brad Pitt or George Clooney incarnated, who will sweep us off our feet, pee in a toilet without any splashes or spills, take us off to Paris once a month to go shopping, and cuddle on command. In our search, we tend to over look certain men, the ones we think of as geeks. But geeks make even better boyfriends than non-geeks.
The first misconception I hear from women is that geeks are boring. Well, they aren’t! They do have other interests besides computers…honestly! As a geek girlfriend, you will be treated to dates that are not only fun but mentally stimulating. That moonlit stroll will be punctuated with the merits of string theory, the most recent project they worked on for NASA or a laser pointer presentation of the constellations. Dinner will be peppered with stories of pranks pulled in college like liquid nitrogen frozen pumpkins being dropped off the Millikin Library for Halloween, going out into the middle of the desert to blow up common items with explosives, and the time they got manhandled into every shower in their dorm with all their clothes on. They also have more mundane interests such as movies, books, music, food and wine. But they plunge headlong into these subjects so really, it is never a dull moment with a geek.
Another commonly held belief against dating geeks is that that they are socially inept. While I wish I could deny it, this is mostly true, except for some very rare exceptions. Now before you say this is a deal breaker, consider this: most of their lack of social skills comes from a lack of proper socialization into mainstream society. Geeks tend to have a geek pack mentality. They stick with their own kind where they feel comfortable discussing the mathematical benefits of …pretty much everything. Geeks will want to please their girlfriends more than anything else, so can be taught social graces, though it may take a while. Also in comparison, your social skills will look fabulous.
Even geeks themselves know that they are not the best communicators. If you have a problem with them, you may hear about it in an email instead of in person. When they do talk, geeks can be pretty blunt, but it doesn’t come from a malicious place like it does with non-geek men. But this, again, can be worked around. You have to be crystal clear and not mince works with geeks. Geeks don’t get hints. For example, if you don’t like something they are wearing and mention “Honey, that shirt doesn’t look good on you” they will not get the hint that they should take it off. If you say “take that shirt off and put on the blue polo that I put out on the bed” they will understand you better. The upside of being socially inept is that geeks will not play mind games with girls. They just don’t know how. Also, if you want something done, like having a geek take out the trash, getting flowers, or taking a vacation, you can email him, and you can be relatively confident it will get done. On the other hand, with a non-geek, something like telling him to take out the trash will involve lots of nagging and the possibility of it not getting done.
The benefits of dating a geek really outweigh the all the negatives. Though there may be more negatives than I have mentioned, most of them can be dealt with fairly easily. Now that we have seen that the bad isn’t all that bad, we can see what common benefits you can expect from dating a geek .
If you date a geek, you will always have 24-hour tech support on speed dial. In this high tech world this can come in handy. Geeks take pride in being able to help you through a technical crisis. They also have some of the best toys, so you are always going to be on the cutting edge of technology. As an example, he will have, an Xbox 360, a Nintendo Wii, an HD TIVO series 3, and a 58” plasma television with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound at home, as the most basic audio-visual set up in his living room and complain that he needs to upgrade. He will also make sure that you are decked out in the latest tech gear too. Your cell phone may be his hand-me-down, but it will be a gently used, two month old mobile phone that will do everything including making toast, which will not come out in the United States until next year.
Geeks are also a lot more romantic than non-geeks. They do the regular things like send flowers to your office, but included will be a love poem composed in C++. They will also usually declare their undying love for you on the Internet by composing a blog post celebrating you, which you can then share with all your girlfriends to make them jealous. Geeks are also very thoughtful. They will listen to your conversation, remember the little things you say and will surprise you with some thing that you mentioned you wanted two months ago for no good reason except you said you wanted it.
Geeks will also try really hard in the bedroom, much more so than non-geeks. The females of the species mostly ignore them when they are young, so they tend to obsess about sex. Once that obsession is coupled with the desire to please you at all costs, it is not hard to imagine the outcome. Geeks also take direction really well, so if something isn’t working for you, all you have to do is let them know what you want them to do, and they will do it, without any hard feelings. For all this pleasure, they do not ask for much in return. They are just happy to actually be having sex (with something other than an inanimate object.)
The question now is where do I find that hunk of burning geek love? There is a secret location nestled in the foothills of Pasadena, called The California Institute of Technology. This place manufactures the best geeks on the West Coast. These people, collectively known as Techers, are everything one thinks a stereotypical geek should be and more (their median SAT scores are 1460 to 1570.) After they graduate from school, they tend to migrate to the good tech jobs in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco. If you can find one of these Techer guys, you have hit the proverbial geek jackpot.
Geeks don’t have the best reputations as Casanovas, but they try harder than any other group to be that perfect man. I have dating both geeks and non-geeks, and I definitely prefer geeks. All I am suggesting is that women who wouldn’t normally date a geek, should give geeks a chance. They will be the best boyfriend/husband that you will ever mould to your own will.
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