Posted on 03/18/2006 7:03:00 PM PST by goldstategop
That is exactly correct.
Well, I mean, they like it (the gay culture).
They don't like it that way, most of 'em.
May I send you an entry form for the 2008 New Hampshire primary?
your excellent post illustrates my contention that there is still hope...
A grey what?
No, but it probably makes life for Jewish men more tolerable...
ROFL, boy does this condure up those on the hunt scenarios both men and women practice these days!
At 5ft. nothin' all the responses here remind me of why I sit on the bar stools...evens the height issue out. It's just experience talkin', but yeah I have found my shortness an issue on the dating scene. If I am standing around etc. it's nada. If I am sitting at near level height at least I might get a "hello" and some flirting, giving the guy the chance to get to know a bit about me, before he realizes I am from the land of the liliputians!
Very old women...
Mark
Actually, no woman of intelligence whatever her appearance would be interested in a man who looks only for 'models'. What does that say about him? Not much. He and his 'model' hopefully find each other.
I would guess that, as with fishing, you participate in the "catch and release" program.
Mark
Few women are interested in marrying a hunk.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
HaHaHaHaHa, I will bet you still believe in Santa Claus too!
Give me a man who looks like a man, who looks like he's lived life, whose face has never been within miles of a moisturizing cream, who got his muscles from physical labor and not the gym, who has a belly for me to wrap my arm around when I sit next to him with my head on his chest, and who is supremely confident in his masculinity, makes no apologies for being a real man, and who will love me and be devoted to me above everything else in his life.
That's what I have now, and if I wasn't already married, that's the type of guy I'd go for.
I agree with your logic. Just look around you - even at engagement announcements in the paper - and you will see that the vast majority of happily married people are far from gorgeous. I really don't know where this author is coming from - but it's a place I definitely don't want to go!
And btw, I'll bet you're adorable [:D
Geez! The misogyny and Judeophobia expressed on this thread and in this post in particular would please the entire Muslim male world. Why don't you guys just move to Kabul and have the time of your lives??
Wow that's some post! I had to read that again to make sure I got all of the side-swipes in there.
"Problem is simple... who wants to raise their child alone because their wife died young, had a stroke, has diabetes, or any other number of maladies..."
Oh dear...the problem is here is, of course, that if you marry and have kids with a shallow, vain but beautiful woman, you'll end up raising your kids alone too, not because she died, but because she ran off with your best friend.
Having once run a web dating site, and ran statistical analysis on the interactions, I can tell you the women are just as bad, only with different criteria. Forget it if you are bald, short, do not have a "professional" career (and salary), or are more than 5 years older than her.
Guys are hard-wired to be maximally attracted to women who are healthy, fit ( healthy + fit = attractive, generally speaking) and in their prime childbearing years
I think it's more akin to why so many very attractive women are "high maintenance" : it's because they can get away with it.
A handsome, well-built guy can be a jerk, and still get lots of women going after him. He thus has no incentive to change.
An attractive woman can be a complete jerk as well, yet still have lots of guys chaing after her, so she also has no incentive to be nicer and more considerate
This is self-correcting with many as they get older and discover that looks don't last, but character does
I knew a guy who you might consider fitting that category. Overweight, not well educated, starting to lose his hair. He flirted at every woman who looked interesting. Most women were repelled.
Why did he keep doing it? Because it worked for him!
Yes, most women were repelled. A significant percentage were not. So he always had female companionship.
A technique with a 95% failure rate is still viable if you're not investing that much time and effort in the failed attempts, as you quickly sort through the women who are not going to be interested in you in order to get to the ones who will be.
Rather than being on his best behavior, and spending a lot of time on a woman before she decided he wasn't for her, he made no attempt to mask who and what he was, but didn't spend more than a few minutes on a woman before deciding whether to move on. In the process, he left behind a bunch of women who thought he was a jerk. But he didn't care, because he was carefull to do his flirting away from work, so it didn't matter what the women thought of him afterwards
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