<story><title>The (Real) Hot Girl Effect and Networking</title><url>http://blog.shrewple.com/post/2520650113/the-real-hot-girl-effect-and-networking</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brandnewlow</author><text>Ultimate Hot Girl Effect Evilness:&lt;p&gt;My 30-year-old uber lawyer buddy has a gorgeous blonde fiance.  She&apos;s in med school and is crazy smart.  She&apos;s awesome.&lt;p&gt;My buddy decided at 27 that he wanted to get into chess.  He got really into it, hired a teacher and by 29 or so was moving his rating up pretty well.&lt;p&gt;As a newcomer though, he often finds himself competing against 13-15 year old boys at his weekend tournements.  In fact he&apos;s often the only person over 18 playing in some of these tournaments.&lt;p&gt;He has a good sense of humor about it, but some of these kids, he says, are just total turds to the other kids they compete against.&lt;p&gt;When he learns he has to play against a kid who&apos;s mean to other kids, he calls in the Fiance and has her sit behind him while he plays, just reading whatever she has to read for med school.  She&apos;ll spend a whole Saturday sitting there behind him while he plays, her nose stuck in  a book.&lt;p&gt;It just destroys the kids.  He catches them trying to steal glances at her all the time during the games.  Just breaks their chess mojo.&lt;p&gt;For the cool kids, kids who are struggling to figure out women at that age, he introduces them to her and she knows to treat them like the coolest guys in the room. Meanwhile, the mean bully kids get ignored and seethe in the corner.</text></comment>
<story><title>The (Real) Hot Girl Effect and Networking</title><url>http://blog.shrewple.com/post/2520650113/the-real-hot-girl-effect-and-networking</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>This post depresses me. I&apos;m a man and certainly no feminist, but posts on the usefulness of attractive, female RoR developers leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. I was going to comment on the nature of our field, but it&apos;s probably the same almost everywhere, from banking to bricklaying to hacking.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ll be in my terminal.</text></comment>