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[Friday]

But yeah, I get tired of women taking digs at nerds.

shut the fuck up you fat nerd

[Kazz]

Part of the problem is that women who are gamers or anime fans are few and far between anyway (less so now than in the past, but that's beside the point).  Your average socially-retarded nerd at a con has an underdeveloped sense of relationships and female interaction, which up to this point has been dominated by fantasy.  So your male nerd spots that rare, attractive female who shares his interests, and his overactive imagination kicks in and tells him that his fantasies are finally coming true.

A perfect storm of sweaty palms and leering later, the boy asks if the girl w-w-wants to g-g-go p-play Kirby's A-Avalanche or s-something and she politely declines, retires to her room, and HAS LOTS OF SEX WITH ME

[Royal☭]

Yeah but you miss out on playing Kirby's Avalanche, so who's the real loser?


 

[Kazz]

she owns it

[Fortinbras]

I have to confess: I went (was dragged tbqh) to a con once, and I think I ogled somebody.  I'm not like, inept, but this was maybe the hottest person I have EVER seen in a skin tight white body suit with a great big boob window that went all the way down to her navel.

...

Don't you judge me, you sons of bitches!

[Disposable Ninja]

Fag.

[Malenkaya]

I don't have much to say on the matter that hasn't already been said, mostly by Friday. But one thing in particular that bugs me about this is the ridiculous extent to which it exacerbates the social ineptitude and resulting gender dynamics of these events.

Your average socially-retarded nerd at a con has an underdeveloped sense of relationships and female interaction, which up to this point has been dominated by fantasy.  So your male nerd spots that rare, attractive female who shares his interests, and his overactive imagination kicks in and tells him that his fantasies are finally coming true.

seems pretty spot-on. The sweaty, lonely con-nerds of the world need to prove they can have ten minutes of actual conversation with a person of the opposite sex, before they get a free pass to go around grabbing any willing pair of boobies in sight.

Oh also, re Arc's groping-train link:

Upskirt grabs aren’t allowed and will result in a violation.

Wins for hilariously ambiguous wording.

[sei]

Part of the problem is that women who are gamers or anime fans are few and far between

[Koah]

Part of the problem is that women who are gamers or anime fans that don't want to see you make out with your friend are few and far between

[Burrito Al Pastor]

The phrase "sour grapes" comes from an Aesop's fable about a fox who was unable to reach some grapes, and decided that they must have been sour; that is to say, "sour grapes" originally refers to denigrating something you cannot reach.

I don't know how much of that was intentional, but this is the best thread title ever.

[Burrito Al Pastor]

Part of the problem is that women who are gamers or anime fans that don't want to see you make out with your friend are few and far between

You're referring to the ones who don't actively request it and not those who would decline such a viewing if offered, correct? Because, unless the conceptual framework of "lesbians = hot" doesn't work on the other side of the gender mirror, "girls who would not like to see two guys make out" consists entirely of "girls who are in no way attracted to guys".

[Zaratustra]

Because, unless the conceptual framework of "lesbians = hot" doesn't work on the other side of the gender mirror

It doesn't. I know more than one girl that is unfazed and/or disgusted by the concept.

[Koah]

I'm pretty sure it had something to do with Sei's over Kazz's statement, possibly commenting on the sort of girl who attends these cons, but I can't really remember for sure.  I mean, it's been nearly two hours.

[James Edward Smith]

I don't know how much of that was intentional, but this is the best thread title ever.

Truthfully, the only reason I've been posting in this thread is because I love the name so much.

[Guild]

To respond to Burrito:

Let me preface this by saying stereotypes are always wrong. That having been said, it's time to stereotype.

GENERALLY speaking, straight girls are not attracted to physical beauty so much as romantic energy. Two dudes making out is far less likely to excite a straight girl as make her go "Awww, how cute and rare and romantic and THEREFORE sexy!"

Contrast that to straight guys who are all about the raw, sweaty, nipple-on-nipple visual.

[Burrito Al Pastor]

So men can't understand women because they're dramatically more subtle and complex than men, and women can't understand men because they dramatically overestimate their subtlety and complexity?

[Guild]

I don't think there's anything complex about either side of this hypothetical coin.

[Brentai]

In other words, two guys making out isn't sexy unless one is from a broken family and the other just shared his box lunch.

Also, they both look like girls.

[Classic]

Another mystery solved!


I'm actually a little cautious about these sorts of conclusions. The idea that men are much more visually stimulated than women is "common wisdom" that I've heard circulating lately and has been repeated from the mouths of people who've taken the coveted "easy A" Something 114: In This Course We Talk About Sex! So I myself internalized it as something that could be overturned any day now.

FUN FACT:
When Classic originally wrote this, he tried to spell "sorts" "SWORDS"

[Kazz]

I disagree.  I think women have decided, within seconds of seeing you, whether or not they would ever sleep with you.

The fun part is changing their minds.