[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
Great!
I have no problem with you trying the best you can be.
Anyone who tries to kick the fate others accept in quiet desperation square in the nuts make me want to see him succeed. [/quote]
I think “the fate [you] accept in quiet desperation” led me to believe that you may be unhappy. lol[/quote]
Alright, so you took the one post that was decidedly positive and interpreted in a way that made you post that I am an little bit on the slow side, my sexual partners are from the bottom of the barrel and that I am like a schoolboy in need of soothing.
I think that is a fair assessement, here is my interpretation:
Women are very quick to see any form of kindness as a sign of weakness and then go very quickly for the kill, using emasculation and sexual shaming.
You can look at your posts and what social position you assume towards while trying to “comfort” me and what position that necessarily puts me in for you being able to hold yours.
Then there is evidence B, this article:
It is one of an infinite amount. Notice that the entire focus of the article, written by a woman what is wrong with men. Notice also the iterations of the two main themes, emasculation and sexual shaming. Finally, notice how not one thought is wasted on the idea that the problem could be them.
I do not expect to convince you, but I have hopes that you become just uneasy enough so that you go through a few articles by women lamenting the lack of “good men” and once you see the pattern, go look in the real world.
See if there is something to it.
Bonus points when you find out when exactly that pattern occurs, there are triggers. [/quote]
I’m not sure what you think I’m saying, orion, but it is NOT that there are no good men! I believe I’ve stated that I adore the guy I’m with. I’ve positively gushed about his kindness and decency and I don’t find him even the slightest bit weak or feminine. I believe I may have gushed about my, um, sexual admiration for him elsewhere on these boards. Honestly, I don’t think anyone has ever heard me bash men as a group, nor do I bash women as a group. If I hear women saying “there are no good men” they get the same thing from me that you have, which is disagreement that the group is somehow flawed and the suggestion that something they are doing is drawing the bad apples. If a woman says after years of dating that there are no good men, I would offer that this is bullshit and that something about HER is alienating the good guys. Presumably her unpleasantness.
My social position is meaningless to me with regards to you. Why would you think I care about putting you down? Or anyone. I haven’t said you’re “a little bit on the slow side,” haven’t suggested that your “sexual partners are from the bottom of the barrel,” or said anything to suggest that you are “like a schoolboy” (???) “in need of soothing.” Your desire to see me as emasculating you is your thing, not mine. I find your framing of things this way rather icky, to be honest. A little schoolboy?? Ew.
What I did say is that your insistence on angrily maintaining negative assumptions seems foolish to me and causes me to question your intelligence. I’ve read articles like the one you’ve linked and thought about what they mean. I’ve read a great deal of PUA literature and I’ve read what posters like Uncle Gabby and Angry Chicken have to say with great interest for some time now. I’m curious and I like to understand the perspectives of others, particularly if I believe them to be intellectually honest (i.e. believing what they believe but open to the perspectives of others, rather than bent only on “winning” some imagined fight).
I suggested that you are selecting for traits in women that bring you women you don’t trust or respect. Surface indicators of youth, for example, as opposed to selecting for traits you might admire more. Honor, for example. I would say the same thing to women who are consistently disappointed in relationships. I have recently, in fact, to a cousin, who likes “bad boys.” Bikers. That’s what she selects for. Not that there’s anything wrong with bikers (or women who dress up and go to clubs), it’s just that there should be more to it than that. If you want depth, you have to look for depth.
That YOU don’t like the women you hang with is not ME sexually shaming you. There’s no way you could shame me with regard to my choice of men, because I like him so much and find him sexy as hell. My cousin, upon seeing a news clip of my boyfriend, made a face and asked me what I see in him. Um, eyes that sparkle with humor and intelligence? Hands that do lovely things to me? Funny, stick-up-y hair and a good nose? I’m not sure what SHE saw when she looked at my boyfriend. She certainly didn’t seem impressed! But her most recent boyfriend didn’t work out for her after a few weeks and neither did the one before him and once, several years ago, while I was visiting her city, she had to cancel plans because her ex-husband had been arrested for assault. But yeah. Bad boys FTW!
Anyway, I don’t disagree with you with regard to rotten, embittered women. I merely suggest that there are rotten, embittered men as well and offer my hope that you’ll choose not to be one.[/quote]
-She’s ^ sharp.
-That graph … sure. I’d like to see superimposed a plot added for how jaded one is about the opposite sex (still as a function of age).