Seriously. I was talking to a friend of mine who is a computer science major. She works with the Campus technology people and today they all went out to lunch. So it was her, another girl and about a million boys. She spent lunch trying to avoid all these guys who were hitting on her by talking to the one guy who knew she has a bf. I've found this kinda thing true with myself and have seen numerous web comics about a girl who just so happens to know a bit about the computer getting hit on by every computer nerd in a five mile radius.
What's so hot about girl who knows her computers? Is there some sex euphemism that I'm missing, like putting a floppy into the driver? What am I not seeing?
I think you're observing a number of phenomena.
1) Desert Isle Syndrome - In an isolated or otherwise controlled environment, a woman's attractiveness is inversely proportional to the number of other women in the area, weighted directly by the amount of men in the area. A computer science major female is probably statistically rare, and therefore has not only jumped naked into a pool full of sausage, she could be marginally less ugly than a potato struck with a sack of hot nickels and be considered the belle of the ball.
2) Relatability Factor - The perceived chance of an individual succeeding in pairing with a mate is modified by a strong factor (r) that is equivalent to the ratio of mutual interests to deal-breaking differences. For example, Sean (S) is attracted to Katie (K). His
perceived chance to score with her (x) can be expressed as
x = (S+K)r
Therefore if their mutual interests are higher than their deal-breaking differences (both like computers, both like video games, Sara is pro-life and Sean is pro-choice), then the factor is still 2/1, meaning that Sean's perceived chance to score is still multiplied by 2.
Unfortunately for Sean, perceived chance to score is in most cases inversely proportional to actual chance to score.
3) Any port in a storm theory - obviously, this was touched upon by the first study of syndrome, but the APiaS theory holds that a man will place his genitalia into anything moving slow enough for it to be placed in. As Bubonic pointed out, this is only a function of the lower brain, and higher brain functions often win out. However, in cases of socially inept people (computer science majors numbering some of the highest in that category), they have not been conditioned to learn a great deal about the complexities of interpersonal relationships, other than possibly being denied by women of a "higher" caste in society, which only emboldens them to strike for those who are "on their level" (same degree plan).
4) And finally..... The Penis Theory
Women tend to blame any negative actions men execute on the man's inability to think with his brain instead of his penis. Men counter by blaming irritability on PMS. Both are patently false, but we'll focus on the former. Men, unfortunately, have little control over the involuntary actions of their penis (who hasn't ever had a hot doctor/nurse about to give them a hernia exam and they had to think about Rosie O'Donnell naked on a cold day?), but fortunately the penis exerts absolutely no control over the man. Therefore, people who think with their penis are in fact two penises sandwiched between a layer of skin and hair. Some men can get away with this, if the hair is glorious and the skin clear. Others do not share their fortune.
