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Maybe you have deigned to date a nerd, considering he’s going to end up being therefore grateful for your family member hotness and social elegance he’ll never ever make you or do anything suggest, only to discover that he is more controlling much less delicate as compared to leader male you believed he was a rebound for?
GQ
, of all of the magazines
, feels you. And says it’s not your error. The pseudonymous Siobhan Rosen writes that “everyone from well-meaning bubbes to
Cosmo
” (including Judd Apatow) provides educated you to believe that “nerds will address you love the next arising of Christ since it could actually
end up being
their particular next time coming.” Instead, “the dark childhood crap that renders nerds
nerds â
recent years of rejection and humiliation, cross-pollinated with a gently simmering superiority complex â means they are, go figure, complete calamities as of yet as grownups.” To which I would personally merely add when your own nerd can be the type of geek who may have channeled his geeky want to accumulate a massive array of information into borderline gynecological sexual expertise (a vagina hacker?), he may end up being well worth maintaining around, shortly.