Relsqui comments on Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid - LessWrong

19 Post author: Relsqui 11 October 2010 06:35AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 October 2010 01:04:20PM *  4 points [-]

My experience is either inside academia or way the hell outside (people who didn't go to college.) I never met an entrepreneur.

My experience with meeting Europeans is that smart people do have less of a geeky self-image than they do in the US (I've known Italian women mathematicians who look and carry themselves like movie stars) but that just about everyone in Europe is less into gorilla-type masculinity than men in the US. So I think your point is probably more relevant on the female end -- European female geeks are more conventionally feminine because they don't see a dichotomy. (I've also noticed that about Asian female geeks -- that is, raised in Asian countries, not Asian-American.)

Comment author: Relsqui 15 October 2010 01:04:18AM 4 points [-]

gorilla-type masculinity

I love this phrase. It reminds me of this exchange, which happened out loud:

"You drive like a guerilla." "... what?" "Not the ape. The kind with a beret."