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Your assumption does not follow from what I wrote, in fact it is practically the reverse since my point was that any industry is vulnerable.

It isn't just "dorks" who give even marginally attractive women special treatment - there are very few categories of men who don't (primarily gay men). Try this experiment out in real life - any time you see a man helping a female stranger with anything consider if he would do the same for a male stranger. The number of times a straight guy will go out of his way for another man who isn't a friend is practically zero.

women aren't stupid. they're actually very smart.

The idea that women deliberately take advantage of "dorks" sounds vaguely bitter and misogynistic.



> The idea that women deliberately take advantage of "dorks" sounds vaguely bitter and misogynistic.

And human.

It happens enough that it's a (probably undeserved) stereotype.

People are no damn good, regardless of gender. Or at least, enough of them are no good to give a bad name to the rest of us. We suck.


> there are very few categories of men who don't.

yeah, exactly. those are the guys who are getting with the attractive women.

specifically, high value men who don't give handouts.

also, dorks isn't exclusive to IT. every industry has dorks.


Oh, you're a "PUA". Good luck with that.


I would hardly call not falling over yourself to help a pretty member of the opposite sex purely because of their attractiveness the same as the targeted psychological games pick up artists use. One is manipulation, the other is having some self respect.


i'm not really sure what you're referring to, but i'm talking about pretty basic human psychology.




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