I find your lack of faith disturbing
I figured I'd do a few quick Stumble!s and happened upon this.
The Trek factor
If you're not up on your Star Trek, you can forget about getting or keeping a geek dude. And I'm not just talking vintage-era Captain Kirk and Spock either. You've got to be up on your The Next Generation, your Deep Space Nine, your Babylon 5. Armed with your own knowledge of Federation policies, you can better gauge when and how to act. The sexual politics of Star Trek are pretty blunt: the men run the technology and the ship, and the women are caretakers (a doctor and a counselor). Note the sexual tensions on the bridge of the Enterprise: the women, in skin tight uniforms, and with luxuriant, flowing hair. The men, often balding, and sporting some sort of permanently attached computer auxiliary. This world metaphorizes the fantasies of the geek dude, who sees himself in the geeky-but-heroic male officers and who secretly desires a sexy, smart, Deanna or Bev to come along and deferentially accept him for who he is. If you are willing to accept that this is his starting point for reality, you are ready for a geek relationship.
It is not entirely unreasonable to believe that my model for human interaction (keynotes being: Nobility, Honor, Intelligence) are, in fact based on: Fantasy books like "The Death Gate Cycle" and "Dragon Lance", Media Images like "Star Trek: TNG" & the "Gummy Bears". That single paragraph, shot home that not only do many of my own ideals bear an uncany resemblance to those presented in these media, but that they may actually be thier foundation. An awsome prospect, though I certainly played enough DOOM & GTA around tha age that it would seem odd that....
The Trek factor
If you're not up on your Star Trek, you can forget about getting or keeping a geek dude. And I'm not just talking vintage-era Captain Kirk and Spock either. You've got to be up on your The Next Generation, your Deep Space Nine, your Babylon 5. Armed with your own knowledge of Federation policies, you can better gauge when and how to act. The sexual politics of Star Trek are pretty blunt: the men run the technology and the ship, and the women are caretakers (a doctor and a counselor). Note the sexual tensions on the bridge of the Enterprise: the women, in skin tight uniforms, and with luxuriant, flowing hair. The men, often balding, and sporting some sort of permanently attached computer auxiliary. This world metaphorizes the fantasies of the geek dude, who sees himself in the geeky-but-heroic male officers and who secretly desires a sexy, smart, Deanna or Bev to come along and deferentially accept him for who he is. If you are willing to accept that this is his starting point for reality, you are ready for a geek relationship.
It is not entirely unreasonable to believe that my model for human interaction (keynotes being: Nobility, Honor, Intelligence) are, in fact based on: Fantasy books like "The Death Gate Cycle" and "Dragon Lance", Media Images like "Star Trek: TNG" & the "Gummy Bears". That single paragraph, shot home that not only do many of my own ideals bear an uncany resemblance to those presented in these media, but that they may actually be thier foundation. An awsome prospect, though I certainly played enough DOOM & GTA around tha age that it would seem odd that....