Is it the new sexy thing to act dumb?

[Antisocial_Worker]

What I think is fun is stupid people with conviction -- the ones who don't know they're stupid. The ones who, in fact, think they know more than you do. Actually, one time I got to see one of these people in action next to your average stoned ditz.

Picture it -- touring the basement of the biggest house in the US, a 250-room palace called Biltmore House. It's about ten miles from where I live, and it's a popular stop for school groups. I was walking behind one, which had trailed away into the two straggling girls walking in front of me.

The first girl was a stupid person with conviction. She was outraged that her school had made her come here to this terrible place haunted by the sins of slavery and bondage. She felt so sorry for all the slaves who had been forced to build this mansion. It was wrong. She wouldn't have come her on her own. The exploitation!

Blah...

...and blah...

...and blah some more. She was really working herself up into a tangent.

Fun fact: Construction on Biltmore House began in 1890 and the house opened its doors Christmas Eve, 1895, more than thirty years after slavery ended in the United States.

Funner fact: This girl's companion was one of the just plain stupid. Her response to all of this perceived social injustice?

A glassy gaze up at the rock archways soaring overhead, stumbling a little, and saying in a long, drawn out moan, "God, I am like so-o-o-o-o-o high right now..."

[Cyphr]

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Picture it -- touring the basement of the biggest house in the US, a 250-room palace called Biltmore House. It's about ten miles from where I live, and it's a popular stop for school groups. I was walking behind one, which had trailed away into the two straggling girls walking in front of me.

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Fun fact: Construction on Biltmore House began in 1890 and the house opened its doors Christmas Eve, 1895, more than thirty years after slavery ended in the United States.

Heh, I want to go to Biltmore house but i haven't had the chance yet. I live between Greensboro and Raleigh.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, I had a genius roomate once (not the violent one) who was telling me that she wasn't stupid and to mind my own business one night when I told her that the cabbage she was pressure cooking was, in fact, an iceburg lettuce.

She was just about the dumbest person I think I've ever met. And not just because of that. No, that was just a symptom.

[otakuneko]

I've even heard rumor there's a glasses fetish but who knows?

Yes.

Mmm, megane-girls.

[Chromatix]

I certainly don't mind glasses - I wear them myself (slight myopia).

And I definitely appreciate a girl who is intelligent - or at least sensible - enough to talk to and get on with. It really does help if she can keep up with my end of the conversation. And if she knows what "myopia" means, so much the better.

I'm sure that *sometimes* it's an act, but more often I suspect it's a habitual attitude to life. Whether that attitude is born of actal stupidity or poor parenting (or some combination thereof), is often hard to tell.

[SnarkyPie]

My response to that is "Girls don't make passes at men who are big arses" XD

Edited for truth and my own amusement.

[mariamousie1]

Sadly, I think people are actually getting dumber.

[Mamadrae]

I just plain don't understand people who put on acts to get men or women. Though I also still wonder how out of all my friends the girl with the chip on her shoulder and scared the guys away due to being able to punch them out (aka me) got married first.

When I was in high school and even in my single years I never ever acted any different with a guy then I did with my friends. My girl friends would always try to get me to behave differently. They would try to get me to watch various popular tv shows and listen to music that made my ears bleed while harping that I needed to get a man. Usually ended in me pointing out that I was the one all the men were chasing. My friends always wound up with guys that originally were after me but then switched to them when they got it that I was not interested.

I had long ago decided that if a man wanted me he would have to deal with my obscene musical tastes, video game hobby, non-existent fashion sense, and ability to make him cry "Uncle".

I fully intend to impress this life lesson on my children and any others I might be able to.

[tropicsgoddess]

I honestly don't see what the hell is so sexy/cool about people acting dumb. I could never date somebody that's dumb....again.

[Imogene]

Yeah, I had a genius roomate once

So, slightly off topic... I was playing through Kingdom Hearts two, the week after the local Rocky Horror troupe did a video game theme show (the guy who plays Eddie came dressed as Cloud a la KH2/Advent Children) So, roomie and I had a discussion vaguely on precisely which version of Cloud said player was mimicking... and then, I went into the Sephiroth fight, roomie looks up, and utters, "Since when has he been evil?"
*brain go splodey* "Who? Sephiroth? The evil looking one with the wicked sword, and the God chorus chanting their lungs out?"
"Yeah, him..."
"Always...? Well, except for about five minutes where he's on your team, but, most of FF7, he's evil. KH2, he's target practice. Advent Children? Short screen time, but EVIL!"

[Mamadrae]

So, slightly off topic... I was playing through Kingdom Hearts two, the week after the local Rocky Horror troupe did a video game theme show (the guy who plays Eddie came dressed as Cloud a la KH2/Advent Children) So, roomie and I had a discussion vaguely on precisely which version of Cloud said player was mimicking... and then, I went into the Sephiroth fight, roomie looks up, and utters, "Since when has he been evil?"
*brain go splodey* "Who? Sephiroth? The evil looking one with the wicked sword, and the God chorus chanting their lungs out?"
"Yeah, him..."
"Always...? Well, except for about five minutes where he's on your team, but, most of FF7, he's evil. KH2, he's target practice. Advent Children? Short screen time, but EVIL!"

Evil or another victim of the Jenova Experiment?

I've had this debate way to many times with people and will shut up before I completely derail the thread.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I'm sorry to have to say this, but it is not a "new fad." It is, in fact, a very, very old fad.

My era--think Farrah Fawcett. Before that, think about Laff-In, Marylin Monroe, the whole Betty Boop thing--it goes on to the beginning of civilization. Maybe even during the dark ages, who knows? Women have been pretending to be dumb for a long, long time.

But I have to say, if you are "pretending to be dumb" in order to go along with the ritual or the crowd, you aren't pretending any more.

[SilverOrb]

I actually met an ex of mine on a geek dating site... Awesome stuff. If anyone actually wants the site, I'll give it to them.

I guess some women would rather get the dumb hot guys than the smart pretty decent looking guys. Sad. Goes for men too.

[Geek King]

I actually met an ex of mine on a geek dating site... Awesome stuff. If anyone actually wants the site, I'll give it to them.

Why not? It can't be any worse than what I have now (i.e. nothing). PM me, if you like. I'll look into it.

[BlaqueKatt]

*watches the tumbleweed roll by unmolested*

Maybe the tumbleweed would like to go see a movie? Can't be a worse date than I've had before I got married, of course.