This is mostly true. However, it's going to take babes REALIZING that. Right now their perception probably is we're a group of guys who are gross, ugly, and no fun to be with.
I can remember Tony Brown (the guy who hosts Tony Brown's Journal on PBS) talking about this a couple years ago. At a speech at Emory University he said that the men with earning potential in the future are ones with computer skills. He said, "You should not be encouraging your daughters to be going out with the captain of the football team. You should be encouraging them to go out with the kid with the glasses, who's off in the corner with his head in a book. The new question that young women should be asking men is not, 'Do you own a cool, new car,' but, 'Do you own a computer?'"
That would be a cool thing, because I can remember when I used to get called "geek," and it was not a cool thing to be. This was back in the early '80s. Kids used to call me that even before I discovered computers. It was a name for people who were just different from everyone else. The term used to confer the same social status of being called a "retard."
Now it's chic. My how things change!
By the way, we should notify Webster's that it needs to change its definition. I got this off the Webster's web site:
Main Entry: geek Pronunciation: 'gEk Function: noun Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German Date: 1914 1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake 2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of - geeky/'gE-kE/ adjective
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This is mostly true. However, it's going to take babes REALIZING that. Right now their perception probably is we're a group of guys who are gross, ugly, and no fun to be with.
I can remember Tony Brown (the guy who hosts Tony Brown's Journal on PBS) talking about this a couple years ago. At a speech at Emory University he said that the men with earning potential in the future are ones with computer skills. He said, "You should not be encouraging your daughters to be going out with the captain of the football team. You should be encouraging them to go out with the kid with the glasses, who's off in the corner with his head in a book. The new question that young women should be asking men is not, 'Do you own a cool, new car,' but, 'Do you own a computer?'"
That would be a cool thing, because I can remember when I used to get called "geek," and it was not a cool thing to be. This was back in the early '80s. Kids used to call me that even before I discovered computers. It was a name for people who were just different from everyone else. The term used to confer the same social status of being called a "retard."
/'gE-kE/ adjective
Now it's chic. My how things change!
By the way, we should notify Webster's that it needs to change its definition. I got this off the Webster's web site:
Main Entry: geek
Pronunciation: 'gEk
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
Date: 1914
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or
snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
- geeky
Excuse me while I bite (or is it byte?) away...