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Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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Fortunately most women aren't like this. It's still disappointing that a popular show can be so viciously anti-intellectual. In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building a transformative startup.

Not only is it dangerously anti-intellectual, it also has some terrible flirting advice.

Telling her that she looks gorgeous? Really?

Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

#12
post #6

I've watched this show a few times. I'd highly caution against anyone going on the show if your objective is to actually find a match (as opposed to being on TV for the fun of it). Patti (the host) will consistently throw the millionaires under the bus and humiliate them at any opportunity so that she can boost her ego. Her main objective isn't to make matches. It's to make good tv, and by extension generate drama. (…

A lot of the stuff she does is basically shit-testing, and framing. Truth is 90% of the guys bight that stuff, and then you're out. "Women test men for all sorts of reasons, and it’s mostly an unconscious process. Attractive women have a lot of options, and prefer men who are STRONG OF CHARACTER. If you were an attractive woman being chased by hundreds of guys, how would you go about eliminating the losers? You’d TEST them, in subtle ways that test for strength and personality. If you did this on a regular enough basis, this behavior would become unconscious and automatic. Women will ALWAYS test you! Deal with it, learn how to handle it, and move on." [1]

Example I saw in the video.

Patti: "Are you nervous?" ...

Patti: "Do you think she's gorgeous?"

Bill: "She looks gorgeous"

By answering those questions, what Bill did is he bit into the frame and accepted her to control the situation. Notice how Patti leaded the conversation, and Bill played along.

tldr; Patti's not being a bitch, she pretty much doing what every attractive women does to a guy -- only she's doing it with no intention of dating them, rather to quickly dissect the guy

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[1] http://www.fastseduction.com/cgi-bin/fswiki.cgi?Shit_Tests

Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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Bill Clerico came off as an Always Frustrated Chump. He needs to shake that off if he wants to be a ladies man. I suggest he start off with a few cover-to-cover readings of The Game.

They already got him started with some advice:

"if you want a 10 you got to be a 10 mentally and physically"

Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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post #11
post #2

Fortunately most women aren't like this. It's still disappointing that a popular show can be so viciously anti-intellectual. In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building a transformative startup.

Not only is it dangerously anti-intellectual, it also has some terrible flirting advice. Telling her that she looks gorgeous? Really?

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Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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post #11
post #2

Fortunately most women aren't like this. It's still disappointing that a popular show can be so viciously anti-intellectual. In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building a transformative startup.

Not only is it dangerously anti-intellectual, it also has some terrible flirting advice. Telling her that she looks gorgeous? Really?

Actually, the way that Bill COULD have responded would be something like:

She: Do you think she's gorgeous ?

He: She's the most beautiful girl I've seen.....in the past 30 seconds

Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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post #14

Bill Clerico came off as an Always Frustrated Chump. He needs to shake that off if he wants to be a ladies man. I suggest he start off with a few cover-to-cover readings of The Game. They already got him started with some advice: "if you want a 10 you got to be a 10 mentally and physically"

I think you mean average frustrated chump

Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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post #2

Fortunately most women aren't like this. It's still disappointing that a popular show can be so viciously anti-intellectual. In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building a transformative startup.

In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building a transformative startup. I don't think it's fair to make that assumption. Passions are awesome, but they'll lose interest if you start describing the intricate details. That's not only true about women, but most people in general. The trick is in how you describe, and not what you're describing. One re…

Again, it's not about what you talk about RATHER how you talk about it. You're still boring.

The idea behind speaking about your passions is to tell it via a story and also create an emotional connection with the women as you're doing it.

Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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post #12
post #6

I've watched this show a few times. I'd highly caution against anyone going on the show if your objective is to actually find a match (as opposed to being on TV for the fun of it). Patti (the host) will consistently throw the millionaires under the bus and humiliate them at any opportunity so that she can boost her ego. Her main objective isn't to make matches. It's to make good tv, and by extension generate drama. (…

A lot of the stuff she does is basically shit-testing, and framing. Truth is 90% of the guys bight that stuff, and then you're out. "Women test men for all sorts of reasons, and it’s mostly an unconscious process. Attractive women have a lot of options, and prefer men who are STRONG OF CHARACTER. If you were an attractive woman being chased by hundreds of guys, how would you go about eliminating the losers? You’d TES…

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Re: Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy

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post #17
post #14

Bill Clerico came off as an Always Frustrated Chump. He needs to shake that off if he wants to be a ladies man. I suggest he start off with a few cover-to-cover readings of The Game. They already got him started with some advice: "if you want a 10 you got to be a 10 mentally and physically"

I think you mean average frustrated chump

I stubbornly stand behind my words. An always frustrated chump is way behind the average frustrated chump. Nevermind I stand corrected. I do think it sucks how they edited it so the highlights of it were them hammering him with advice. It's a conspiracy against nerds. It's a SoCal entertainment industry conspiracy against the Silicon Valley. We all know which is better.
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