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Beauty and the Geek

I'm excited. Beauty and the Geek season 2 has started. The premise of the show is 7 geek guys meet 7 attractive, intelligent women. They are supposed to pair up and learn things from each other. The women gain knowledge, the men gain skills. The advertising for the first season emphasized the romantic aspect wuite a bit more than this season. I suspect that has to do with the very limited romance that happened in the first season.

I like the show because it portrays geeks in a positive way, unlike most tv shows and movies. The women learn that the geeks are normal human beings. We all have things we like, and dislike. The difference between the geeks, and the so-called normal people isn't much. It's a difference in interests mostly. I'm working on a post about geeks and dating, but that's for the weekend.

Both seasons started off the same way. Each geek introduced himself to all of the women who claimed the geek they wanted. Not unlike real life, actually. Let's meet some of the contestants...



Ankur is a pompus ass. He said since he was the most attractive man, the most intelligent woman would pick him. He makes all geeks look bad, since he's the kind of person who needs to tell everyone that he can't tolerate stupid people. I wish bad things on him.



The black woman, Jennipher picked him. She liked his duct tape bowtie. If this were a reality dating show, they would both be the second to go. No one wants to eliminate the minorities first out of fear of looking racist, so they always eliminate another person first. Asian women are excluded from this rule.



Josh has Generalized Anxiety Disorder. He probably came on the show as a way to work through his fears. Each of pairs of people sleep in the same room in two single beds pushed together. Josh was so uncomfortable with this arrangement that he slept in a closet. The cynic in me wished that his partner would have mocked him for this behavior.



There's a saying that humor is a sign of intelligence. Meet Chris. He showed the girls a greeting card he made to give a woman who has cheated on you.

On the outside, "I hope you're happy :) "
On the inside: "Because you ruined my life, Bitch :( "

The women were horrified. Later in the show, he won the ability to switch up any of the teams. He became a prick on a power trip.

At one point, Josh remarked that he would trade some of his intelligence for the abilitt yo be more social. I know a number of people that feel the same way. That's all for now. I hope this season is very entertaining.

posted by SumThing @ 10:03 PM