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So you say yourself that girls don't like nerds. So who is to blame? And the "treated as potential meat" remark is just sexist from you.

Also those where the days of playing video games on home computers. Professional IT work was decades later.

And boys weren't the gate keeper to the technology either - how should that have worked? Today as then, if you are interested in doing stuff with computers, nobody can prevent you from doing it.

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> So you say yourself that girls don't like nerds.

No many women don't like being hit on constantly by people. That's not the same thing as "not liking nerds".

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You are creating a fantasy narrative. I guarantee you that nerds don't constantly hit on girls or women. They are famous for not doing that and being more concerned about their computers instead.

My claim was that nerds back in the days of home computers would have been happy to meet a girl interested in computers. That is a far stretch from the Beavies and Butthead scenario you are trying to create. It's simply normal and healthy to hope for other human beings to share some interests with you.