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.

Women are people. Some are very smart, some are stupid, in the same proportions as men. For every male IT worker who's been duped by an attractive women, there's a female secretary who thinks her boss is really going to leave his wife for her.

i agree - men thinking a commitment/favor/gifts will get them sex is about as stupid as women thinking sex will get them a commitment/favor/gifts.

anyone who's ever been in an adult relationship could tell you as much.

> stupid as women thinking sex will get them a commitment/favor/gifts

You can't be serious? This happens a lot, I can't imagine how one cannot see it.

I believe this was in reference to the girls duped by guys into giving up sex. Where girls think that now that they have had sex, they are bound together. Like that comment about the secretary hoping for the boss to leave his wife

> in the same proportions as men

Women are actually smarter than men on average, or so IQ tests tell us.

Whites are smarter than blacks, according to IQ tests too. That's why IQ testing is discredited now.

That must explain why men are outnumbered in science and business, right?

Looks like someone need a lesson about standard deviations before making snarky comments.

To be fair, that was responding to a comment that was almost as dumb, although it weaseled out with that "IQ tests tell us" clause.

Or the opposite of your conclusion: Women in Science: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

What does the number of women in science or business have to do with smartness?

Most businesses are pretty stupid, if you think about it - buy cheap sell high, or produce something people need.

As for science, it's mostly tedious research by poor PhD students with professors taking most of the credit. Occasionally there's a breakthrough, a cause for celebration (and hopefully real world application).

You're ruining the dream bud.