[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
We’ve been over and over that: I’ve lost trust in my partner, who made promises he didn’t keep. Honor, my own and others’, is important to me. Why is that so difficult for you to understand?
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Honor is a luxury your genes do not enjoy.
Different strategies, different programming, different emotions.
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Genes ain’t the whole story, son.[/quote]
No, but the story necessarily takes place on the stage nature has set.
The way I see it, women would very much like to be free agents nowadays but would also very much like men to stick to the old script.
This is one of the many, many times where the female narrative, which just so happens to be the socially dominant one right now, magically transfers all the power in a relationship to the female if a man accepts it.
We all know how female “honor” was measured not so long ago, by this metric there are no honorable women to be found, but the exact same women who “would have been stoned at the city gates”, to paraphrase AlphaF, would very much like men to play it “honorable”.
How is that supposed to work without men getting shafted?[/quote]
See, now you sound like my cousin, who is angry that men are not being good guys while at the same time has three of them on the hook. She ranted about men proposing without a ring, which offends her delicate sensibilities (“what is that, you want me to marry you and you can’t even buy me a fucking ring?”). She buys into the same essential world view that you do, orion. She’s your match, because her “narrative” is the flip side of yours. Which is not to say you’d ever get together. Probably not, because you’d see each other as awful. Which you both sort of are, in a way.
My narrative is different: I fall in love with someone who falls in love with me and we both do our level best to be worthy of the other’s respect.
The sad part for me as an observer of the two of you is that with that level-best thing comes the things each of you wants. That mind-blowing sex you don’t associate with relationships (what could possibly be more fun for me than waiting for him to get home and knowing that I’m going to get to see his eyebrows shoot up at what I’m wearing or doing? I absolutely LOVE putting that look on his face, and I love even more the things that happen right after I see that look) and for her part there would be the sweet mushy stuff she craves, but doesn’t get.
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I am not like your cousin.
Let me count the ways:
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For me to act like an utter dick in a prolonged effort to thoroughly fuck your mind, you really, really had to beg for it. Repeatadly.
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I am not a spoiled little princess.
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I took great efforts to “get” women and even though you doubt that I do, their reations say I do. She never did the opposite, I am willing to bet that her wisdom can be distilled down to “men like to fuck”, which sadly, might be enough.
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If I meet more than one woman, they know.
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If I bleed for 5 days, I am dead.[/quote]
You are.
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You make assumptions about the group that inform your behavior toward individuals.
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Your unhappiness is a result of your poor choices, but you project the blame onto the group, which confirms for you both the circular reasoning you used in the first place. She: men are shitbags so I am continually victimized by their lack of genuine caring. You: women are incapable of honor so I am continually victimized by their lack of fair play.
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Neither of you are princesses so you both defensively attempt to pump your egos through a combination of wishful thinking and manufactured scorn. She has been hurt over and over again, but will assure me that “we’re the prize.” Well, no. Most people are a mixed bag of qualities, some good and some bad. Whether or not that person is a prize depends very much upon who is doing the judging. Like you with women, rather than focusing energy on the things about herself that are negative, she focuses solely on negatives she assigns to men as a whole.
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While I’m sure you’re right that she does not have to do very much to get the men who like to fuck, that is not what she wants. She wants someone to love her. She also, and here is where she fits your narrative, wants someone to take care of her financially. Her solution is to bottom-feed. Meanwhile, for you, there is the sticky dilemma of how to get a woman who will at least exhibit (to the extent her nature will allow) something like honor, despite the unfaithfulness your “nature” demands of you. Your solution is also to bottom-feed. That’s not to say that the women you pursue aren’t physically attractive. My cousin’s men are not bad looking! But desirable beyond that? No. Not for what you each want.
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Yeah, I am human. We do, indeed, belong to the same species.
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Not unhappy, so there, and if I were I would be unhappy due to fucked up airways.
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I know, but I do not expect anyone to throw shiny baubles in my general direction because I breathe. So, I am aware that I am not a pretty little princess.
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That is actually not true. My limited experience with this whole harem thing started thusly:
She told me she could not be with me because for some reason she believed that I had sex with tons of women, which at this time was not true and that I am wild untamable beast or some such, which is up for debates.
So I replied, alright you can by my second or third woman then.
To which she happily agreed.
On the outside I was oh so cool about it but on the inside I was like , whooooaaaa dude!. WTF!?!
You have to understand that a lot of my shenanigans start out with a joke or a veiled “fuck you!” from my side and they actually take it at face value.
I guess that happens to a lot of men, I just follow through, thats all.
