AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269
Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
Nouns! (Score:5, Funny)
I know. I accidentally the whole thing, and yet I can still it lightheartedly.
Re:It's funny - laugh (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously. I wanted to be offended when I read her list of questions girls can ask geeky guys. But then I realized I had had conversations at work regarding all three within just the past week.
Re:Women can land any man they want (Score:5, Funny)
Once you get to know a girl or two...
TWO girls??? Did you forget this is slashdot?
Re:Women can land any man they want (Score:2, Funny)
Silly AMD... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't they realize that if all their smart geeky employees start getting laid regularly they'll quickly lose motivation to work ridiculous hours for less pay than their superiors who don't do anything?
If geeks start getting laid, the American economy will collapse, since geeks is all we really have left. I, for one, think that the sexual activities of geeks should be heavily monitored and controlled by the government to ensure their continued general dissatisfaction with human relations. It must be done; for the sake of our children, for the sake of American prosperity.
p.s. I'm moving to Germany (Gottingen) next week.
I see where this is going... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:She tries too hard (Score:5, Funny)
All a woman needs to do to land a geeky guy is to quote a line from Star Wars. That is super hot to us.
Indeed. Make it so.
Re:It's funny - laugh (Score:1, Funny)
They get in on the fun by joking about how poorly your pasty white face serves as a punching bag... Amiright!!!
Re:It's funny - laugh (Score:1, Funny)
I love the shameless advertising at the end! (Score:3, Funny)
In her blog post, she recommends three things at the end of the article:
Buy your geek a Radeon graphics card.
Buy your geek a triple-monitor setup so he can run Eyefinity.
Buy your geek an unlocked Phenom II Black.
Quite the savvy saleswoman, this one.
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Re:It's funny - laugh (Score:3, Funny)
"fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical items far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'
In other news, Apple is suing AMD for calling devices other than the iPad magical.
Re:She tries too hard (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Women can land any man they want (Score:2, Funny)
With insight like that, you should start writing an advice column. And then stop before you publish any of it.
Re:Patronize? Really? (Score:3, Funny)
This reads like you're describing my husband, except I don't care about clothes either and still let his mom buy all his clothes. It works out. :-) I did ask her to stop getting him pleat-front pants, which she did.
Spoiler Alert! (Score:2, Funny)