I saw some other articles related to this discussion that I’ve been compiling for a link post on geeks and gender (including one fellow arguing that women don’t know how to hide their geekiness like a proper geek, which was certainly a new argument to me)…

Two observations:

One, There just aren’t as many Ggirls as Gguys. Yeah, you can argue that. Proceed to Item Two.

Two, Ggirls tend to be better at subliminating the fact that they are geeks. (Often, they find a not-considered-extremely-geeky outlet for their geeky proclivities. Anything from politics to knitting topologies.)

Three, (THREE observations!) the overall culture expects less in the way of social initiation for girls (at least initially, the subsequent stuff is whitewater at its finest.) Thus Ggirl wallflowers will eventually get some interaction, while Gguy wallflowers will get very little.

Did I miss anything?

(Oh, and somewhere I have the original BITCH Hypercard stack. I’ve got to properly archive that at some point.)

“It’s for people who know that society wants to shun them. But we’re really proud of the fact that we’re geeks so it just takes itself very lightly,” [site user] Riviere said. “Anything I put on Sweet on Geeks is going to be true and honest; on, like, a normal dating website I’d give it a little more consideration.”

I forgot to mention, too, that the TODAY/Tango article described above mentions that Chicago actually has a geek dating service, but I’ve already updated this post something like six times as I find new tidbits and add-ons—new stuff in the comments, then. Enjoy.