[kobot]

I am a girl studying computer science. I never understood the whole geek girl mentality of "I don't get OTHER girls! They only like shopping! I like nerdy things!"

I like shopping and makeup. I also like nerdy things like Lord of the Rings and programming hackathons. I get along with girly girls AND geeks.

People are more complex than "I only like shopping" or "I only like Star Wars". It's not hard to make friends with people who have different hobbies than you - in fact it makes your social group more interesting, I find.

Why does there have to be a divide?

[joshguthrie]

Like someone posted right below your, because everyone wants to belong to a Grandfalloon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon

It's easier to "belong to a club" by saying either "I like computers", "I like sports" or "I like my nails painted" than by saying "I like computers, sports and nails painted".

But didn't we learn that the world isn't binary? :)

[csense]

> It's not hard to make friends with people who have different hobbies than $YOU

The above statement may be true when $YOU == "kobot", but it's not true for a nontrivial subset of the nerd population.