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"I think a lot of questions for me were answered in an alt.poly discussion where 'geek' was proposed as a separate gender. I suddenly realised why, despite being attracted to women, I didn't have very many female friends. Nowadays, I identify as geek as much as I identify as female: I see 'female geek' as a separate gender from 'female'."
    -- baratron in a comment to a post by griffen, January 2003.

I'm going to have to chew on this one for a while (and try to track down the discussion referred to) ... "geek" as a distinct gender ... I'm used to thinking of "gender" as more than just "male" and "female", but mostly in terms of varying degrees and combinations or absences of each. Though, come to think of it, I know at least one person whose sexual orientation could be, in significant part, described as "geek-phile".

(Darn, now I've got a Doonesbury image stuck in my head. "Mmmmm! Girl-geek on a coding run!")