..they're clearly not, thus misrepresenting nerd-dom.
OK, part of that is just being ironic, the other is submitting to you another of my brilliant insights into women (I'm like Mel Gibson's character in "What a Girl Wants", except I don't know how to interact with them).
Anyway, here's my problem with these false, self-proclaiming nerds:
By now, I'm pretty sure I've basically broadcasted the qualities I want in a girl. So when I'm on this one dating site I frequent, whenever these girls declare their selves nerdy, I think, "OK, if this is truthful, I could be myself rather than a projection."
*buzzer* I don't know who they hope to attract with that other than real nerds. As far as nerds go, I'm not ugly or stereotypical; hell, I tend to pass for an average person before speaking.
To recapitulate, girls mislead us REAL hopeless romantics (hey, another phrase that grinds my gears due its erroneous use, 'cuz us nerds are the only REAL hopeless romantics). So, no matter my daring, no matter how simplified, no matter how perfectly composed my conversation starter messages are, it's all gloom and doom....until cyborg relations.