Debunking the Nice-Nerd Myth


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Have you ever deigned to dating a nerd, considering he will end up being very grateful for your relative hotness and personal elegance he’ll never ever give you or do anything indicate, simply to find that he is even more managing and less painful and sensitive compared to leader male you believed he was a rebound for?

GQ

, of all of the mags
, seems you. And states it is not the fault. The pseudonymous Siobhan Rosen produces that “everyone from well-meaning bubbes to

Cosmo

” (including Judd Apatow) provides educated you to definitely believe that “nerds will treat you prefer the Second Coming of Christ because it may actually

end up being

their unique second time coming.” Instead, “the dark colored youth crap that produces nerds

nerds —

recent years of rejection and embarrassment, cross-pollinated with a gently simmering superiority intricate — makes them, go figure, complete disasters to date as adults.” That I would personally merely add if your nerd can also be the type of nerd who’s channeled his geeky aspire to build up an enormous variety of expertise into borderline gynecological intimate knowledge (a vagina hacker?), he might end up being worth keeping around, shortly.