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A commenter over at Scalzi's place: "As an overweight, thirty-something geek I wouldn’t be caught dead at the new TRON because I like having a girlfriend."

My immediate thought: "Seriously, dude? Both of mine are pretty excited about it."

Date: 2010-07-26 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com
This is why I married a geek. He complements my geek behavior well and is amused rather than appalled when I fail to meet social norms.

Date: 2010-07-26 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com
Oh yea and geeks are sexy.

Date: 2010-07-26 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merseine0613.livejournal.com
That was so sad - if you can't be yourself - your true self - around your girlfriend, then why be around her at all?

Date: 2010-07-26 04:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jadelennox
I made my boy get a copy of old TRON for me last night, and he laughed at me. But he did it anyway.

Although I will admit I don't have a girlfriend!

Date: 2010-07-26 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikailborg.livejournal.com
Same here. Starr is insisting we make the pilgrimage to an IMAX 3D theater to see it, and after we showed Celia the original TRON last night, she signed right up for the trip.

Date: 2010-07-26 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Someone is stuck in the nineties, it seems, not the eighties.

Date: 2010-07-26 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
I'm also an overweight thirty-something geek, and I also like having a girlfriend, and a wife.

I haven't talked about this with the girlfriend, but the wife is far more interested in TRON than I am. She may drag me there.

Date: 2010-07-26 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdsorceress.livejournal.com
And as an attractive, androphilic1, twenty-something female geek, I wouldn't be caught dead talking to someone who's so obsessed with how he appears to the world that he refuses to acknowledge that there is such a thing as girls who like geeks.

Blarg. Unhappy Sor is unhappy. (And I haven't even seen the original Tron yet, yes I know, I'm awful)

~Sor

1: Androphile, person who likes men. Compare to Gynophile. May be spelled slightly wrong.

Date: 2010-07-26 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merseine0613.livejournal.com
Not awful, just ignorant. Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity can't - and you are NOT stupid! (as proved by the above statement of what you wouldn't be caught dead talking to)

Date: 2010-08-22 09:40 pm (UTC)
sorcyress: Drawing of me as a pirate, standing in front of the Boston Citgo sign (Default)
From: [personal profile] sorcyress
Disney Robin Hood is seriously like the Best Disney Movie Ever. I love that one!

Date: 2010-07-26 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
I wouldn't be caught dead talking, myself.

I think that would just be creepy. I mean, shambling around looking for brains dead is creepy enough. Talking would be worse.

Date: 2010-07-28 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jpenamelist.livejournal.com
wow- us geek girls are out there....i'm all excited because i may get to go see the new tron a couple times- with the husband, the boyfriend, and the girlfriend :) poly geek-ness ftw!

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