A few weeks back Spungen complained about pop culture’s tendency to give a free pass to nerds:
Books, movies and TV shows told me nerds were red-hot lovers once you got those glasses and Dockers off. When you’re 12, these things have a big effect. They can hardwire your brain to desire the unlikely, even the ridiculous. You behave consistent with the belief even in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary.
Something tells me that a new CBS sitcom will not alleviate her outrage:
The Big Bang Theory: A sitcom in which two mega-nerd super-geniuses share an apartment. “They can solve any problem except one—the hot new girl across the hall.” A) Nerds are in this year, so I’d like to inform the Nabokov scholars in the audience that, in the pilot episode, VN’s name appears as an answer in a crossword puzzle. Eight down, I think. B) If these guys are so smart and horny, why don’t they just invent Kelly LeBrock?
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Regarding popculture/nerds/etc:
First you have to remember the Hollywierd rules of sex.
Rule #1: Sex is never awkward, and nobody ever fails to attain orgasm (unless this is a specific story requiring it). The closest I’ve ever seen to Hollywierd breaking this rule is in the film What Women Want, but in that the guy quickly regroups and the sex is “amazing.”
Rule #2: Nobody is ever unattractive in Hollywierd. Unattractive people don’t have sex. Even the “nerds” as portrayed on Hollywierd TV shows/movies turn out to be at least “reasonably” attractive once you get rid of their glasses, fix up their clothes/hair, etc.
Basically speaking, Hollywierd doesn’t have a remotely honest portrayal of sex. Real sex isn’t “amazing” all the time. It can be, sometimes, but there’s awkwardness, there’s people learning what their partners like, learning to be together (at least hopefully), the occasional mishap, not everyone is satisfied every time, and some people are just not mentally equipped to work around whatever various shortcomings they have, or improve themselves and their abilities.
Hollywierd sex is basically soft-core porn, and we all know how little the porn industry has to do with reality.
And then there’s Rule #3 of Hollyweird sex: when the couple is finished, and are lying unclothed on their backs in bed, they invariably are covered by the famous L-shaped sheet. It covers the man to the waist but the woman to the neck.
You said it, Webmaster.
This myth is probably why so many guys who don’t get sex very often, or just don’t care much about women, think women have it made because we have an easier time getting casual sex. Never occurs to them it might — in fact probably will — be lousy.
There aren’t very many supergeniuses out there. There are lots and lots of guys who aren’t particularly smart and do poorly with women, who will nevertheless imagine they are like these Hollywood supergeniuses. The “nerd” stereotype allows them to save face, because it’s preferable to just being losers.
I’m sure the characters will be exceptionally nice. IRL, I haven’t notice that exceptionally smart guys are any more likely to be nice or kind than are average guys. And no less likely to be assholes.
This myth is probably why so many guys who don’t get sex very often, or just don’t care much about women, think women have it made because we have an easier time getting casual sex. Never occurs to them it might — in fact probably will — be lousy.
That myth isn’t completely media. Even a guy that has had relatively uninteresting sex will usually leave… uhhh… satisfied. Once upon a time I had an extraordinarily bad sexual partner… but even that was better than the alternative. For guys the range goes from good to awesome. For young women it goes from poor to awesome.
Admittedly, I watch a lot of porn, so I don’t Hollyweird sex and many celebrities attractive, but when compared to porn, real life sex seems much less enticing at moments. It’s nice to have sex, but it’s just not as beautiful and attractive as porn or even Hollyweird sex.
BTW, Spungen, I don’t see the unintelligent men going into nerdhood. They just don’t have the nerdy tendencies that lead them in that direction, nor would they want that moniker applied to them. These are just loser men who are incapable of scoring women.