If you spend most of your time online then it’s obvious that the things that you would most likely have in common with anybody else will be the online things. If you want to meet a lady and have a conversation with her then it would be best if she spent most of her life online too, that way you both could feel like you had something to share. That’s why I propose a multi-part scheme for getting women interested in the Internet, that way the good communities will not be the sausagefests they are today.
“They will fuck everything up!”
You can use Digg as an example. Digg got popular, and soon the people who made it worth reading at one point got outnumbered by spammers, and Myspace-type people, many of whom were chicks. It became the middle-to-lowbrow home of the Internet, where your granny and your 12 year-old kid could be sure to find something entertaining. American culture being largely anti-intellectual for everybody, raises girls, especially, to not think or read or create. It doesn’t take with all of them, thankfully, but you still have lots of women wit and genuine interest in learning are mysteries. Sarah Palins. Any web-site that is broadly popular with draw these women and so the quality of discourse will decline. You will see the threads taken over by banal and hackneyed comments, and the submitted stories will be from sites that have not been interesting since 2004. It’s a valid argument. We need to find a way to keep out the undesirable chicks like your mom. Use lots of big words and have intensely passionate conversations about politics and programming.
You will need to make sure that as many women as possible have computer access
If they don’t get bogged down in Facebook they may be able to find their way to the good and interesting sites. Somewhere out there in the hinterlands of China, or in sub-Saharan Africa, or in the wilds of Kentucky there is a woman who, with a little education, would probably find your bookmarks wildly entertaining, and you, as well. You need to get a computer to her.
People need to stop raising their daughters as if they were all going to be pretty
Sometimes you can get through life with nothing interesting or unique about you. Lots of times you can’t though. You need to be able to get people to like you for other reasons. Online, those other reasons are what matters. Nobody with a brain trusts pictures until they meet you in person, until that point it’s all about what kind of personality you are able to project with words. Put your standard pretty girl in that position, who was raised to capitalize on her looks and she won’t be able to project anything. In a world of reclusive, shut-in programmers and social news addicts, the agoraphobic, Colbert-fangirl is queen. Lock your daughters in the basement with a desktop. Whatever emerges at 18 will probably get lots of nerd-dates.
