Does being smart make you a nerd or a geek?

1. 2 hours ago
i never been called a nerd its just that i hear that people that are smart are nerds.

2. a nerd is a label that insecure/arrogant people give to others to make them look/feel better. either that or just a stereotype based on looks

3. I am a nerd. I spend too much time on the computer for my own good and play many-a-nerdy games and have been on a halo3 team that has competed i MLG tournaments. I've participated in weekly LANs and played MMORPGs religiously. But I have no problem getting girls (if thats what ur worried about) just be yourself. And no, being smart does not make you a nerd, so long as you don't rub ur brains in other peoples faces, which I suppose makes you a jerk, not a nerd. =]

4. Steve Urkell from the show Family Matters is a nerd. my daughter was thought of as maybe one of those , but when it came time to study w/someone or borrow someones notes, she was the one they called for. dont worry aout it, you'll probably make big bucks. when you do write me, & i can say , i remember him ...when...

5. Being smart is an attractive quality. It can stimulate another person's mind and challenge their thought process or make them see things in a different perspective (persuasion). Not talking just about book smarts, its book smarts, street smarts, and common sense. I think a nerd is just a form of dress. Something 60ish or 70ish. After watching a few episodes of Beauty and the Geek, the geeks went through a fashion overhall and were then considered hot by the beauties. Thats my take on it

6. The reason why SMART MEN are stereotypically classified as "nerds" or "geeks" is for ONE VERY IMPORTANT REASON. Because -->> SMART (and overly-intelligent ) GUYS ARE GENERALLY HANDICAPPED WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN and understanding them. There are PLENTY of studies (and examples) out there which PROVE it. Why??? Because they believe -->> Everything should have a LOGICAL explanation and that it should MAKE SENSE. And when it comes to understanding WOMEN and what ATTRACTS them . . . NOTHING could be further from the truth. Having your choice of ( and success with) women does NOT depend on smarts and brains. It depends on whether or not you GET IT. And guys who don't GET IT will not have ANY success. No matter how intelligent he is. What is required for ATTRACTION does (more often) NOT "make sense" to most people. EXAMPLE: Smart guy is sitting across from a girl who "SAYS" she wants a guy with brains, who is intelligent, goal-oriented, sucessful and driven. A guy can perform every back-flip in the world to PROVE to her that he is ALL of those things, but IT DOES NOT MEAN she will be attracted enough to want to MATE with him. . . even though he IS everything she SAYS she wants in a man. He will not understand this. . . and he will be left standing there scratching his head as to WHY she ran off to be with the greasy, tattoo-ridden, unemployed, high-school drop-out on a stolen motorbike . . . . who has enough body-piercings to hang a shower curtain. Because he doesn't GET IT. And rather than EXPLAINING it to him, she will just tell him she wants to be "friends" and run off to screw the dumbass with no job. Not because he IS a dumbass with no job, But because he GETS HER. Guys who are naturally successful with women will OFTEN call "smart" guys "nerds" or "geeks". And so do women. Because as far as THEY are concerned . . . only a "nerd" (or "geek") will stay at home and play HALO3 on Saturday night, instead of getting laid. LOL!!! :)

7. naw, being smart doesn't mean you're a nerd. Nerd is a term for someone who may be smart, but doesn't know how to be social. There are plenty of smart guys that aren't nerds and pull really hot girls. Intelligence is really hard to define, what some people would consider smart other people can consider stupid. Ahh, **** it, just look at what the guy above me wrote, he's pretty much right on the money. Understanding how to flirt and how to attract a woman is a different kind of smarts. It is something you can learn, but a lot of it doesn't have a lot to do with logic or book smarts. A lot of it has to do with emotions, I don't mean that being a sensitive guy gets you the girls, it doesn't at all. But there a whole art to it, seriously, it's a business.