Dear Geek: The Era of the Dumb Jock Is Just So Over

Originally published by Breaking Modern:

Would you date someone who couldn’t spell “misspell?” I didn’t think so. Welcome to the Brave New World, where dumb jocks no longer stand much of a chance. And where spelling and grammar are everything.

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6 Comments.

  • I know I’m going to get lucky with this new trick—I can already feel my genes leaping out of my jeans!

  • Wish to hell I knew what an “em dash” is–guess I’ll have to do a Google search. 🙂

    • Wish to hell I knew what an “em dash” is–guess I’ll have to do a Google search. 🙂

  • If you have access to the data on any Internet dating site, you get some real information. When women are asked, ‘What kind of man are you looking for?’ and are then presented with a line-up of actual men, the ones they try to convince to go out with them do not resemble what they wrote. They write the kind of answers they think will make them look good.

    The answers they put in a dating site IS what they want. And it’s men who are at least 181.5 cm tall (Mr Rall qualifies, of course, assuming his book, The Year of Living Dangerously is a graphic memoir and not a graphic novel.)

    It’s strange. I roomed with a very tall, 19-year-old classmate at university, and he had about 300 women a year desperate to have sex with him. ‘What makes him so attractive?’ I asked one who was waiting on our couch until he returned (from a prior tryst with another woman). ‘Attractive? He’s NOT attractive. You’re much more attractive than he is, but I don’t like sex with attractive men, I only enjoy sex with a man like your flatmate who is not at all attractive.’

    I had trouble understanding back then (I was 18). To a man, ‘attractive’ is the adjectival form of the verb ‘to attract’, but women say they are repulsed by attractive men, which is an oxymoron. I complained. ‘Women don’t talk in tautologies the way men do,’ one woman kindly explained to me.

    So the key is 181.5 cm (or 5’11½”), not knowledge or spelling or punctuation or anything else. Our short spies will strike out, but not because of their grammar, and our tall spies will get lucky, no matter how bad their grammar is.

  • – and here in Lithuania, they are concerned that the use of standard English on mobile phones is supplanting the correct use of the same goshdarn characters in the Lithuanian language. Just shows to go ya that people am no damn good anywho!

  • > Girls were into jocks…

    You need to have a talk with your mommy. The jock goes into the girl …

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