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Here at Lemondrop, we love our small but highly esteemed male readership. Naturally, we fell over with excitement when a fine young gentleman reader sent us an email.

Unfortunately, Duncan wrote in only because he took major issue with our article about 10 Sci-Fi Guys We'd Do, saying that we were "toying with the nerd community" by suggesting we were into geeks when, as he insists, no cool girls actually are.

It was with heavy hearts that we read his letter -- after all, we had no intentions of "angering and hurting" him with our words.

As it is, we do love nerds -- not just movie stars playing nerds (whom he scoffs at for their facade of geekiness). In fact, consider this our declaration of love for Duncan and all glasses-wielding programmers worldwide.

Please, please click here and read Duncan's diatribe in its entirety.


Dear Lemondrop staff.

Wonderful site in many ways, congratulations. However... I recently came across the following article:

http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/07/07/sci-fi-guys-wed-do/

...What the hell do you think you're doing? Toying with the hearts of nerds the world over. As a software engineer with slightly broken glasses that I haven't been able to fix, this article angers and hurts me.

Do you think it's funny to write stuff like: "Here at Lemondrop, we're suckers for dorks. And what cool girl isn't?"

I'll tell you which cool girls, ALL OF THEM!!!! Every last single one of them. Even in the Amazonian rainforests, the tribesmen who know the names all of the flora and fauna and can recite centuries worth of tribal history don't get laid as much as the ones that can kill an anaconda with their bare hands (fact). And don't give me this BS with "well, here's a list we made." Movie stars playing nerds aren't actual nerds (sorry girls), putting a pair of glasses on the body of an adonis does not constitute a nerd unless that movie star knows what "recurisive coding" and "null pointer exception" means.

As to who is better in bed -- of course nerds are more grateful and eager to secure future liaisons of the sexual nature, but it's an entirely wasted point because those nerds will never even get a chance in the first place.

Don't lead them into thinking they will.

Sincerely,