This just makes me despise geeks even more… Poor Razib at GNXP made the misogyny-exposing mistake of seeing an attractive woman talk about science fiction and then remarking on it in his weblog.  Well, Razib, OR SHOULD I SAY HITLER, your sexist stereotyping has not gone unnoticed among your moral betters:

Why the heck would it be freaky that an attractive woman reads mainstream sci fi? You think attractiveness is inversely proportional to literacy?

Well there does seem to be a powerful inverse relationship between science fiction readers and literate, sane, and well-adjusted adults.

The whole thing is very odd. Every woman Scienceblogger who has a picture up is 'smokin hot'. Razib's corrolation has less factual support for it than suggesting that because the women Sciencebloggers are 'teh hot' most 'hot' women are interested in science…

Statistical theory posits that if the above writer were to type randomly for a hundred thousand years, he would eventually produce a gigantic sci fi space epic in which two female characters kiss as he tearfully masturbates.

You are a painful reminder Razib that "nerdiness" and science fiction have a poor correlation with intelligence and basically no impact on social enlightenment. You, you shallow objectifying prick, are the reason I can't help but feel apologetic whenever I approach a member of the opposite sex.

But surely that's not the only reason.

Perhaps… it would be nice to know that you aren't the shallow chauvinist that you seem to be here, but this will probably be my first and last visit here.

ATTENTION:  YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED OF PRINCE NERDLY'S ETERNAL DEPARTURE FROM YOUR CYBER-REALM, WHICH HE HATH DECREED UNWORTHY OF HIS GREATNESS!  (You may now commit suicide.)

razib, I can't even begin to tell you how incredibly stupid and offensive this post is. You are displaying all the qualities of a moron, and this really disappoints me. I have been forced to declare on my blog that you have your head up your ass. [writer then links to an article that is so blood-curdlingly retarded that God Himself must be quite shaken by it]

Feel the burn, Razib!  She declared you have your head up your ass – on her "blog"!  By the way, this is what you have offended:

"It's Pat!"  Also the author of a "forthcoming" essay entitled, "What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid?"  Hmm…get a second mortgage?  Complete your sex change?

Which reminds me of the exchange between Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in His Girl Friday:

Russell:  Well you wouldn't have taken me if I hadn't been doll faced.

 

Grant:  Well, why should I? I thought it'd be a novelty to have a face around here a man could look at without shuddering.

May I be forgiven for repeating the commonplace observation that it is unusual to find a rancorous demeanor and pleasing looks in the same woman.  For men the equivalent pairing would be what Sailer recently described as "command presence" – alpha male status has the same effect on women as doe eyes and a sweet smile do for men.

Of course looks seem on their face (as it were) unlikely to determine one's taste in literature, but genre literature does tend to attract special elements.  Science fiction isn't all Star Trek and spaceships but it is almost completely devoid of stylists, writers whose mastery of poetic language lends their works an enduring quality.  It is really not that daring to suggest that the typical sci fi devotee is a socially awkward white male who prizes laborious detail of setting over literary quality.  Hence the dominance of writers like Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert and William Gibson, in whose entire output one will find not a single stirring passage or notable use of metaphor.  And yet their fans must number in the millions.

My suspicions about any woman who announced a love of science fiction would be, in order:

1. Dumpy looking
2. Socially maladept
3. Resigned to grabbing the low hanging fruit of mating material

Encountering a truly good looking woman who enthuses about this male-oriented dreary genre trash would certainly cause me to raise an eyebrow.

As opposed to Orca up above.