Being a wonk (as Brits would say) or a nerd/geek is usually a bad thing. If you’re too interested in science or (god forbid) you choose that as your profession, you can forget about ever being called hot or sexy. You’re more likely to be that boring person in stuffy clothes and glasses that stands in a corner at party and bore people to death whenever you open your mouth to talk.
Well guess what? That stereotype is going out the window! Not only do some women find geeks hot (yay!) but even a magazine like People rated a scientist (a geologist, yawn!) as one of the sexiest men alive in 2005! Dr. Michael Manga who is at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley rubs shoulders with Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Viggo Mortenson and Matthew McConaughey among others in the latest issue of People.
While idly browsing the net for any other articles on Dr. Manga, I also came across inkycircus, life in the nerd girl world, a blog by three women science journalists which categorises their blog-post about Dr. Manga under “men whose babies we want to bear!”
Oh yes, fell right and square (plop) for him within minutes of seeing (the pic) and reading (about him). Honestly (sound of me catching my breath) what a hottie!
Also advertised him to other girls at the breakfast table. They pooh-pooh me but ha, I’m sure they secretly drool over him.
Is this news to geek guys, that there are women out there who love geeks? I love a man with brains.
As for Dr. Manga, I guess he’s good looking, though not exactly my cup of tea. But that he’s a scientist makes him SO much hotter.
something on the same lines – http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,69907-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Lay odds on it being the ponytail.
When I was in college the group of sciencey girls I was in a program with got wind of a Studs in Science (or something like that) calendar, but as far as I know, none of us ever bought it. I’d like to know what happened to that project, for, uh, scientific reasons.
I’m liking Mr. July.