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In reply to the discussion: Could you have a relationship with someone that you were not strongly attracted to? [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)I tend to attract a certain type of "geek girl" that does nothing for me...it's really an asymmetrical attraction thing; I'm not attracted to people who are like me: nerdy and perhaps a little too stuck in their own head, bookish, low-energy, sarcastic, quiet, dry humor, slightly pudgy. (OMG, do they love me though. I have two handfuls of female friends like this...they're almost all women I've rejected.) I tend to fall for the social butterflies who are very image-conscious, upbeat, high social-IQ, not-sarcastic, high-energy, focused and extremely-attractive...and usually horrible human beings. (Evil, genuine, true "I kick puppies and will name our children Ronald and Reagan" evil is a turn-on. I wish it weren't.)
I attract the now-in-vogue "geek girl" (and worse, the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" (I do not believe, no matter how much Hollywood pushes it or how many of them Zooey Deschanel plays, this appeals to any man.)) and am interested in "cheerleaders". I guess when I say "compatible" previously I mean "the people I know think I would fit with this person because They're just like you, Chan". I can't think of anything I want less...I want "complementary" where that can be understood as mostly my opposite.