Geek Girl #11: Dating

[Fellfrosch]

Read it here: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=1285

You know, Fish, the next time you have a Magic date I can loan you the deck of doom; you can use it to impress him or scare him off, whichever you prefer.

[Mister M]

After all, a pretty, socially-competent Geek Girl is an Ioun stone in a bin of diamonds.

Nice comparison. And good luck on the dating scene.

As for our RPG group, I somehow have never actually regularly roleplayed in a group with less than 50% girls. I keep hearing this "girl roleplayers are almost unheard of" rumor, and yet so far I haven't had any personal experience to back it up.

[Entsuropi]

I've never been in a group without girls, but the ratio is always around 4:1 for men to women, at least.

[FirstMateJack]

I have never been with a group of girl gamers really. Just my wife, she enjoys to play video games with me, or just on her own at times... that's about it, she won't play magic or anything. Although she'd consider it if everyone else was doing it.

[JenaRey]

In high school I was the only geek girl in the RPG group. Since college I've been in the same group and the girls almost always outnumber the guys, even as the group has fluxuated in membership over the years.  It's a standing gag that our GM never needs sensitivity training because often he runs for an all female party and he knows exactly what will get him beaten upon.  Currently we have 11 in our group with 5 men and 6 women.  The pro of many women though...we eat really well.  

Though I know the problem all too well Ms Fish.  Even more challenging is when you get a little older and you're still trying to find dating opportunities in the geek gene pool.

[stacer]

When I said “geek” I did not mean “incapable of carrying on a conversation.” Try again.

No doubt. But that's part of the problem, isn't it? Especially when you get to be a certain age. (You're perceived to be approaching it because you live in Utah, but for no other reason. Were you living in Boston or California or something, you'd be the baby of the ward.) But the pool gets narrower and narrower.

Personally, I've decided to give up. Well, for one thing, I'm too sick right now to worry about anything besides getting myself to work. But also, I figure, it hasn't changed anything in the whatever years that I've been trying. I'm content to just try to have fun with my friends, and if it happens, it happens, but I'm not too confident it actually will. And yes, I mean dating, because it's been an even longer time since I've had any hope that any guy would last longer than two dates with me.

[Spriggan]

Leave it to a dating article to make half the females on the site depressed.

All I can say to you all is if EUOL can get married then anyone can.

[FirstMateJack]

Heck, even I got married.

I married a girl who played on one of those late night commercials about a telephone date line (not the bad kind).

[stacer]

Leave it to a dating article to make half the females on the site depressed.

All I can say to you all is if EUOL can get married then anyone can.

I'm not depressed. Just being realistic. When it's hard enough to find friends where you live, it's unlikely you're going to date.

[Spriggan]

Just lower you standards.  I'm sure there are hobos out here that would be happy to go to dinner with you.  

[Sigyn]

You could date Spriggan, after all.

[FirstMateJack]

Just lower you standards.  I'm sure there are hobos out here that would be happy to go to dinner with you.  

Ouch!

*Hides for shelter before the firestorm begins

[Archon]

*Archon conjures a firestorm inside FMJ's shelter*

[Spriggan]

You could date Spriggan, after all.

I actually have a 9-5 job now so I'm one step above hobo.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Yeah, he's at least the king of the Hobo's now.