Nerdbaiting – looking at the above picture, do you even need a definition? To me it’s the lowest of the low, exploiting the icons of some nerdy sub-culture to gain that most valuable of currencies in an insecure girl’s treasury: attention!
These comments perfectly capture nerdly self-delusion..
Dressing up in some slutty version of a famous character’s costume is sure to draw plenty of attention from the socially inept – I picture some mouth-breather looking at the Rd-D2 girls above and thinking “They’re hot, and I’m sure they would be interested in how I think General Akbar’s attack plans were doomed to fail!!” – but the fact is these girls are completely uninterested in the genres they are exploiting – it’s all for the attention.
Classic Nerd Marketing
Now one could claim *any* girl posing in costume is nerdbaiting – pin-up posters from the ’50s for example – and they wouldn’t be terribly off, but there is something more insidious at work here. Vampirella (pictured above) is classic 70′s nerd marketing, but she was used to sell magazines – smart move. Nerdbaiting on the other hand is akin to shooting fish in a barrel – it’s just plain lazy.
Trust me, she's 100% uninterested
Now everyone knows even an average girl is elevated to near goddess status by simply attending any nerd gathering – by dressing trashy they are guaranteed near unanimous nerd worship… and that’s as pathetic as it sounds. You might say that based on numbers alone *some* hot girls must like this nerdy stuff – and I’d laugh in your face.
True Fan vs Nerd Baiter
Ok sure, chicks like Adrienne Curry are in it for the attention – does anyone actually believe she digs this stuff?!? But maybe you need another example…
Not sure if left is a girl, but the example stands either way!
A final thought – worse than casual nerdbaiting are those that make a living out of it – Olivia Munn, Adrienne Curry, Terry Hatcher (in the before-days) are all guilty of building fan bases on the faulty premise that they actually like nerdy stuff/are closet nerds… bullshit. Don’t fall for it!
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seconded
A girl who likes the Beatles? Where can I find such a mysterious creature?!
Being a huge nerd, I’m not super offended, but the Star Wars stuff is pretty annoying, since there was only one woman in those movies. Even as a 12 year old, I never masturbated to R2-D2, and I don’t plan to start now.
I hope you’re being sarcastic. Every bish loves The Beatles.
every groce bish
I really hope you’re being sarcastic about him being sarcastic.
I hope you’re being sarcastic.
Wat? Most bishes I know love the Beatles.
It’s R2-D2, and Admiral Ackbar.
First.
I considered making this correction, but I came to the conclusion that I was getting trolled and that IT’S A TRAP
ha, kudos to you my friend! <3
Actually, wish I was trolling, but when I wrote the article I mistyped one, and have no fuckin’ idea how to spell the other. Article could easily have been titled “I non-ironically hate STAR WARS FANS”
“i non-ironically think Star Wars are pretty good movies and think it’s a little weird that people fap over them so much”
lowercase ‘boom’
I’ve been reading this column where a movie critic introduces his kids to the entire star wars series.
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/film-nerd-2-0-revenge-of-the-sith-devastates-the-kids-as-anakin-falls-from-grace
It’s a fun read and their youthful innocent acceptance of the movies highlights how much the douchebag crybaby prequel haters just need to grow the fuck up.
On the other hand, the critic is using the films to help talk about and impart important life lessons to his kids and gets all sappy and teary eyed about it. When I get little boys, i’ll share fun movies with them too, but Ima have em stackin cinder blocks in the back yard, punching trees, and working at the grocery store as bag boys for pocket change so they know what the fuck is up. This movie critics’ kids are gonna end up whiny liberal arts fggts, straight up (And i dont like making fun of toddlers, but if you name your white kid “Toshi”, you just inviting fggotry).
ITS A TARP
lawlz
Oh yeah man, you want to meet this girl because she has a Beatles poster in the bedroom of her mom’s house and knows who Misty from Pokemon is. It’s TOTALLY not because she’s hot and willing to slut it up on the internet.
Another prime example . This girl hasn’t been within .75 miles of nerd dick in her life.
GTFO with that ghey droid shit.
I only get hard for Jar Jar Binks…
Weird. This makes no sense. I had no idea stuff like this existed (but I also have no idea who Olivia Munn, Adrienne Curry or Terry Hatcher are). Won’t dressing up like this just make the mnstrm bros they presumably want to bang think they’re annoying losers, though?
Mnstrm bros wont give a shit about a bish playing dress-up… and the bish will stop when they start getting a steady stream of attention.
THIS! FUCKING THIS!
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk218/seanlikesBLB/1320894383603.jpg
so much truth in one picture alone
would stab that Pokemon girl until my junk was rubbed down to a bloody nub, tho
+1 million.
Holyfuckingshit! You couldnt be more right. This year I attented this Linux conference in my city (dont know why). Anyways, as I expected a place full of nerds and like 98% guys, and there was this chick that calls herself @nerdlicious (or something like that) on twitter, and shes like average. Chubby, light red-head (fake, of course), glasses, into metal (which reminds me seargent’s metal sucks entry that girls dont like metal, they only want attention). The thing that pisses me off, was that it actually worked, during the whole conference every fucking beta nerd that doesnt know that the girl only wanted attention, was going up to her and asking to take pictures. And fuck! she wasnt even that attractive. I’m so glad I read this blog, otherwise I would have done the same beta shit.
Oh, and Olivia Munn is one of the most annoying human beings on the planet. Which sucks because she is also one of the hottest girls to ever grace us with her physical presence.
Disagree with both counts. She is eh and eh, respectively.
She’s super-annoying, esp. since she used to play the sweet/ignorant nerdbait card – “Oh, do I look good in this Princess Leia outfit? Gush/Gush >_< !!” Also, now wants to be ‘srs actress’ but can only really play herself…
She’s cute, but IMO lots better 1/2 azns out there…
Not trying to be argumentative but my girlfriend is a Suicide Girl hopeful and so I have a membership to the site and as much as it seems ridiculous the redhead in the R2D2 swimsuit knows her stuff… She is a rare exception and the shoot itself was done because she is a total cash cow for the site and the fan base is pretty nerdy. So it’s still nerd baiting but just because they use it as a way to win money and attention doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of enjoying the mediums they use to bait the nerds. It’s transparent at best but it’s something to consider.
KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!!
“no, im serious– i think that stripper really likes me!!”
I expected that statement would get both responses but for some reason my brain still found them funny. Why try budday, why try?
SRS Question: Suicide Girls still exists?!
I lol’ed at “my girlfriend is a Suiside Girl hopeful!” – good luck with yur poor life choices! (srs – were we all supposed to gush over that?!? those bishes are 90% groce and busted…)
woohoo, slagathon! (and i hate the feckn Beatles)
“I wish every time a girl said, “I love nerds,” she legally had to have sex with a guy who knows Flash and doesn’t exercise.”
in order to be certified as a tr00 nerd lover, she has to look at a naked database administrator for 2 minutes without averting her gaze, then ask him whether MySQL is a “real relational database” or not. If she hasn’t run away screaming after 60 minutes, she gets her cert.
Flash!? Fuck flash, that shit is so 2008 and Adobe is finally drowning it in the bathtub. HTML5 FTW.
Oh also: yeah, I love nerds.
Better idea: get in shape and get out of your mom’s basement, and then you won’t have to fantasize about forcing women to try and find your micro-penis amongst the rolls of flab.
Loving this article. However, my gf might be the one hot chick under 200 lbs who actually does dig nerd stuff. Hell, her favorite show is Doctor Who.
KEEP THE DREA… oh fuck it. I’m sure some hot chicks are into this – but does she dress up as Leela to make nerds drool? (And if yes, send pics to my tumblr – I non-ironically love 4th Dr shit!)
I think old Dr. Who is still extra virgin nerd status.
By Dr. Who, she means 10th doctor.
So…. no pics then? sadface.gif
This. I think modern Doctor Who is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. But old Doctor Who is boring.
And unfortuneately, no pics,lol
It’s Doctor Who, not Dr. Who. Duh.
Oh…shit…
Vampirella got me thinking about Julie Strain.
I’ve always wondered how the co-creator of The Ninja Turtles and editor of fuckin Heavy Metal magazine could pull such a hot bish. I guess if there’s a silver lining to this nerd bait phenomenon, it’s knowing that even the most obvious geek overlords can pull some dime piece level hot tang booth babe models if he works his nerd skills right.
True enough bro. I also think she had some brain damage from falling on her head as a teenager.
he’s rich, which probably explains 99.9% of it
that rikku chick is so hot it’s actually causing me physical pain
That’s called a heart attack.
I have come to the conclusion that there is no such things as girl “nerds”. Just girls that know neckbeards at anime conventions will think that they’re hot and snap pictures to fap to later.
Tldr; all women are sluts.
Wow, I should have actually read the article, because that’s what it said! Great minds think alike.
reading the thing you are discussing just takes all the fun out of commenting, doesn’t it??
does felicia day count? she seems pretty into that nerd stuff
I don’t think so – she doesn’t tramp it up dressing in costumes she’s not interested in… and she’s cute as hell!
Veronica Belmont could also get added to the list of legit cute nerd girls that don’t bait.
The problem with hot slutty women dressing nerdbait is it causes actual mega-nerdy doucheguys to believe that they can get hot slutty women without doing anything to address the fact that they are socially-malformed basement trolls.
Sort of like “somewhere out there is a beautiful woman whose clothes will fall off when she sees my collection of Star Wars Expanded Universe pewter spoons because I have seen such creatures on the internet.”
So instead of realization leading to self-improvement leading to becoming regular chill bros, they remain stangry mutants dreaming of one day touching elf boob.
So nerd baiting is a major cause of life fail.
You def. get what this article is all about! Srs!!
I would normally back this article 100%, but I can only back 99% since one of my best friends is an extremely attractive female who is a GIGANTIC nerd. Obsessed with X-Men, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, Firefly, Battlestar, etc. She always comes back to me complaining that every single nerdy male she meets falls in legit love with her and tries to white knight her into dates, and I always laugh in her face, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU EXPECTING?
So yeah, 1% of the time the girl is legit not doing that as nerd bait. I think.
Just to clarify – Nerdbaiting is when a hot female has little/no interest in the nerdy genre, but wears slutty costumes in the genre to get attention. I think a Venn diagram would have been in order here…
Any attractive chick that goes about their business, dressed normally etc and still get nerd attention aren’t nerdbaiting.
Ok, gotcha! Amazing post btw, pure gold.
Loved this post upon seeing the first few pics. Wanted to vomit after seeing the real fans. As a metalnerd beta myself, I can say with authority that 99% of girls actually at metal shows are fat sluts who only go to shows because the only guy desperate enough to fuck her is a metal nerd himself. One can only assume that it is the same with other nerd based activities.
Try testing the nerd baiters. “Oh, you’re wearing a Batman shirt, so what’s your favorite series? Have you check out any of the new 52 yet?” “Hey cool Pokemon costume, what do you think about my defensive Swampert build?”
Yes – reinforce your nerdy-ness and completely call her out – great plan! Good luck with your abstinence goals!
If you think you may have even the smallest chance of scoring with such a chick, yet find yourself at such a nerd gathering, best to distance yourself from the nerds and engage with small talk, but good luck! You’re 99% behind the 8 ball just by being there!
That was sarcasm bro. And I am reading comments on an old article.
I’ve known legitimately attractive nerd chicks (e.g. my ex-gf from high school, who is obsessed with WOW and Dr. Who). They tend not to brag about it too much, and I’ve yet to meet one who cosplays.
Would smash nerdbaiters, though. I’d just mention absolutely nothing about nerdy shit while setting it up.
What is an actual nerd? Is it the chubby fanboy in a special edition Boba Fett hoodie, or that pale and emaciated creature wandering around campus with a graphing calculator in his shirt pocket?
Changes every decade – sounds like you’ve got your 00s nerds mixed in with your 80s nerds.
surface details change— social ineptitude and lack of fucking stays constant
i couldnt agree with how horrible nerdbaiting is. i work as a game tester, so u can imagine how many guys there would fall for this shit. they eat it up, and it literally disgusts me. but it wouldnt happen if there wasnt tons of 30+ year old dudes out there that have never felt a boob.
*couldnt agree more
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well thats not fair, so you believe “attractive” girls can’t like the same things nerds like. I have to disagree what about those girls who in middle school were hideous shy trolls but then discovered push up bras and makeup in highschool? I have a ton of female friends that are just like that! Ugly nerdy kids that grew up to be hot and stayed true to their nerdy roots!! I’m guessing you don’t know any, plus from most of your woman bashing posts… you probably don’t like women very much anyways… oh well smh
“We’re not like all those other girls”
-signed every girl ever
relax, its just jokes.
I think you missed the point. How often do your cute nerdy friends walk around dressed as slave Leia, or a topless Misty, or a corseted Storm Trooper? I’m guessing they don’t, because they don’t feel the need to inject sexiness into the things they actually enjoy. They would rather watch Star Wars instead of have you jerk off to a picture of them dressed as a slutty ewok. Nerdbaiting is the exact opposite. It’s girls injecting sexiness into things they don’t actually enjoy because there are flocks of males that will dump attention on them because of the subject matter.
“slutty ewok”
Yub yub.
lol’d way too hard at slutty ewok
Point = missed.
Plus, I’m not Sergeant D and I don’t write the girl related articles (and they would be completely lulzy if I did)
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Bro I love you for this article. There are plenty of attractive, nice girls into nerdy shit, they just aren’t super overt about it or even if they are, they’re doing it cuz they’re actually passionate about whatever nerdy shit they’re talking about, be it final fantasy, anime, hardcore sci fi, computer shit, video games, lord of the rings, books and shit etc etc. The problem is YOU GROCE INTERNET ELITIST NECKBEARDS STILL DON’T HAVE A CHANCE WITH THEM BECAUSE YOU ARE A. A DOUCHEBAG OR B. UGLY OR C. BOTH. A lot of nerds are douchebags and elitist and not chill, a lot of them are ugly fuckers, and a lot are both. Sure they’ll talk to you, but you’ll never end up dating them. Such girls usually end up with attractive guys who are slightly nerdy, who also actually exist. Girls have standards too. You aren’t entitled to shit because you were born a loser. Be friends with them, they’re usually fun people, just don’t expect shit from it. Enjoy a friendship or something. Stop the gross nerdbaiting. Girls who do this are just annoying people who don’t actually have personalities and usually don’t know shit about what they’re talking about. STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO THEM.
That being said, would smash the Rikku chick with the strength of a thousand suns.
Also relevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD_4EUvnURs
Holy shit, I really need paragraphs. Wow. That’s dense.
I have no opinion on your comment. But I am curious how many years of training are required to master the onion.
To be honest, I love stuff that would classify me as a ‘nerd’, but it’s not a label that I wear and rub in people’s faces. You just get a name attached to you by others for what interests you have. If you spot a hot girl going round boasting that she is a nerd, most likely she is just trying to seek attention or trying to look different.
You read the post, right?
you must be new here
I did, I must have a different thought process however. :]
To clarify the confusion for some posters: this article does not deny the existence of hot women with a nerdy interest or two. I myself know a pretty decent (7.5/10) girl who loves X-Men to death. HOWEVER, she does not go around dressing in slutty nerdy shit that she doesn’t give two flying fucks about. Here’s the thing: whenever a hot bish goes around drawing attention to her body WHILE flaunting how “nerdy” she is, THAT’S when the nerdbaiting begins.
Otherwise no, functional hot women with a nerdy interest or two that they know to keep on the dl is a rare but fairly well documented phenomenon and they should not be confused with lazy attntion whores.
I predict a great future writing Wikipedia plot summary entries for you!
I want to write for the DVR guide. “JACKASS: A group of nitwits play practical jokes on each other.” <– actual description
Women in the military are a lot like nerd baiters. Why would a women join a job where it is 90% dudes if not for attention. Then they get deployed and even busted chicks have truck loads of dick thrown at them. I never understood why they would join up but attention seems like the main reason.
If something overflooded with dudes, and chicks choose to do/like it, it is for attention. If something is overflooded with chicks and dudes do/like it, they like the dick.
Wow, i was trying to think of a counterpoint, but you are totally on to something! I was gonna say something about pride and patriotism, but then I realized that all of the competent and professional females that excell in their fields (pilots, admin etc) are one cunt hair away from being sociopath man-eating dominatrices, just like in that movie The Generals Daughter.
The real test is find a woman who has deployed and didnt get dick at least once when there. I cant think of any.
i know fuck all about like, batman or star trek or world of warcraft or whatever, but i’ve always wanted to go see if there were hot chicks when comicon goes to nyc. i dunno man, i bet even the hot ones have low self esteem and if you aren’t groce it shouldn’t be too hard to get back to dat hotel room.
Nope, they pay hot chicks money to dress in costumes and tempt the nerds
Thank you for this, they’re hot, but the big girls are the real geeks, not the babes.
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All I’m getting from this article is that you have unsuccessfully hit on these women you claim are “nerdbaiting” and you’re JUST SICK AND TIRED OF IT.
Attractive girls can’t be nerds and cosplayers? Not only is that factually incorrect, it’s offensive and childish.
also this article REEKS of the first thing listed here: http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html
You really “get what this site is about.”
Sorry, bro, I’ve read enough posts on here to say that yes, I do get it.
“Just kidding” is a cop-out unless you’re 12.
That’s like saying I should be mad at posts about jerkin and black foolishness because they are offensive and childish.
And they are, but they are also hilarious and contain a grain of truth.
Of course nobody believes that every (KK edit – learn to close your tags!!) cosplayer/hot nerd girl does it for shallow reasons. We know there are special snowflakes like yourself who prove that stereotype false, but writing about that would be humorless and dull. Kind of like your comments.
Methinks the lady doth troll too much!
I should write more posts tho – this dubstep career is going nowhere!!
r u a whale? pls rspnd
Not in the slightest.
pics or gtfo
I see that you are in some way affiliated with a website that may have a vested interest in exactly what I was posting about. I think it is very brave to come here and voice your well thought out and articulated arguments. Coming into a hostile environment with such bravado is never easy. Please, be safe!
I work in a freaking lingerie store full of hot nerdy girls.
hot.
not fat.
nerdy girls.
none of them cosplay though…
Creepy. What you’re essentially saying is that they must not be “real” nerds because they’re attractive, since real nerd women are only unattractive. Nerd-baiting does exist, but they’re the “booth babes” who are paid to be at cons and hand out free crap. You can tell them a mile away because they A) hate wearing a costume B) hate people at cons C) can’t hide the look of “I want out of here now” and D) have a fake tan and clearly look out of place.
There are however plenty of hot “cosplayers”, RPGers and women who happen to be naked on the internet who are also nerds, and they are not “nerdbaiting”. They’re actually nerds, and simply because they aren’t socially retarded and unwilling to have sex with out of shape maladjusted losers doesn’t make them fake. It makes them more real. If a woman won’t have sex with you, it’s not her fault, it’s your fault.
Say it with me losers, if a woman won’t have sex with you, it’s no one’s fault but your own. Boys aren’t being fed a “delusion” by anyone but themselves.
You really ‘get what this site is all about!’
Take a breath, calm down and have a laugh – it helps!
Also – please send pics of ugly cosplayers to my tumblr and then complain that I have a ‘warped sense of beauty’ and ‘want to make women conform to an unrealistic stereotype’!
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