[Serious] Women and girls of Reddit: what are your experiences in being judged solely by how you look?

The stereotypical personality for someone of my appearance, and my real personality are flipped on opposite ends of the spectrum.

I am a nerd who is into anime, cosplay, gaming, computers, and works all day in a career that involves sitting in a dark room on a computer doing extremely geeky things. My first instinct is to run away and be alone when strangers try to talk to me and I have to psych myself up for a full 3 minutes before even using the phone to talk to a stranger. My friends are the guys and girls others tend to pick on in school, and those who willing spend their lunch hours inside to be in the computer lab every day. I do not smoke. I do not drink. I have no idea what to say to guys, and would rather run away than chat.

Want to know what I look like? I am a tall 5'7'' who might weigh 120lbs soaking wet. Long thick hair and face shape that people would kill for. Despite my low body fat % I have great boobs and a fairly ok butt. I look like the biggest bitch in all of history who 'probably has 8 boyfriends, is a total slut, and goes clubbing everynight to meet people and get them to buy me free things'.

Wanna know how I paid for my geeky tech university degree? I did runway modeling and photoshoots.

When making new friends (the types of people like myself who will game all night over skype and do board game nights), I need to be very careful. The types of people I enjoy being around are very quick to dismiss me as a 'bitchy type' upon first glance. My boyfriend of 6 years is a short, very skinny, adorable nerd with big glasses. As awkward as they come. I want to personally punch every nasty person who feels the need to tell me (in public) that I can do better. And I want to murder the dudes who used to tell my bf that he didn't deserve me. Don't judge based on looks please.

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