I graduated with a CS degree and am now working as a software consultant. I don't do any hacking but I will occasionally jones and try to accomplish some arcane little task in C or scripting just to keep my UNIX skills refreshed (I quit academia for the commercial world and am now entrenched in Micro$haft products). So I guess I'm a geek girl/woman/grrl. Being on the opposite end of the ratio spectrum, one of maybe ten women in my UCSD program, you could say I had my pick. I TA'd a lot of classes and met tons of guys. But even with the huge number advantage the pickings were indeed slim. I'll assert that I'm not unattractive, just so I don't get lumped in with the 'ugly girls' category that presumably no one wants anyway, listed in an earlier post. I do think that most guys just weren't that interested. Or, they were trying to get through school and I heard 'don't have time' quite often. For a lot of them, a girlfriend *just wasn't a priority*. Then of course, there were the desperate/socially clueless ones. I received so many anonymous emails, some of them cute, many of them quite icky, one guy wanted to bestow upon me the gift of his virginity, another wanted me to wear black leather and do...things... to him. NOw granted these were college age boys and I was an older student, but very, very, few actually just came up and talked to me or started a conversation like a real person. I became really tired of one-liners and averted eyes. I found it very difficult to get to know most geek guys. So I believe there was opportunity out there (I was single and wanted a man!), but it was very difficult to connect with the geeks. I ended up dating a PoliSci major.:/ (But my current sweetie is a geek and turned me onto/.)
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I graduated with a CS degree and am now working as a software consultant. I don't do any hacking but I will occasionally jones and try to accomplish some arcane little task in C or scripting just to keep my UNIX skills refreshed (I quit academia for the commercial world and am now entrenched in Micro$haft products). So I guess I'm a geek girl/woman/grrl. Being on the opposite end of the ratio spectrum, one of maybe ten women in my UCSD program, you could say I had my pick. I TA'd a lot of classes and met tons of guys. But even with the huge number advantage the pickings were indeed slim. I'll assert that I'm not unattractive, just so I don't get lumped in with the 'ugly girls' category that presumably no one wants anyway, listed in an earlier post. I do think that most guys just weren't that interested. Or, they were trying to get through school and I heard 'don't have time' quite often. For a lot of them, a girlfriend *just wasn't a priority*. Then of course, there were the desperate/socially clueless ones. I received so many anonymous emails, some of them cute, many of them quite icky, one guy wanted to bestow upon me the gift of his virginity, another wanted me to wear black leather and do ...things... to him. NOw granted these were college age boys and I was an older student, but very, very, few actually just came up and talked to me or started a conversation like a real person. I became really tired of one-liners and averted eyes. I found it very difficult to get to know most geek guys. So I believe there was opportunity out there (I was single and wanted a man!), but it was very difficult to connect with the geeks. I ended up dating a PoliSci major. :/ (But my current sweetie is a geek and turned me onto /.)