Future of the geeks

[raino]

I've been worried about this for some while, and visiting Forbidden Planet at Dublin made me worry some more. Where are all the boys in traditionally-male geek hobbies? At FB, there were me, Cousin, sis, three other geeky girls and one couple, where they boy looked utterly bored and the girl was comparing plastic collector characters of Dr Who or something. Only the salespeople were male (and real old school nerds too, at least one of them). My sis has been complaining it's hard to find enough male LARP players. Comic cons are full of loud 14-year girls in cat ears, and also artsy comic scene seems to be dominated by women. Scifi-fandom is about half-and-half, but younger ones seem to be XX mostly. So computer sciences are still quite boycentric or at least computer nerd girl is not the norm, but other than that - what hobbies do boys have nowadays? They can't all be playing ice hockey!