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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Dudes try "dating Darwinism"

An author argues that angry young men are becoming assholes to try to get women.

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:54 PM

    Beigelights, exactly- a guy had said he does that

    646 had said he became successful in his career so he woudln't be stuck with fat girls with good personalities.

    That's what I was referring to.

    Brightstar- you're insane. I don't have to do anything to attract guys? Yah, just look like a barbie doll and be a brainless sex machine. I refuse to change myself to be the fake, unreal, unhuman (because men like you can't deal with reality) blow-up doll guys like you want. Well, like all guys want.

    Women are under all the pressure to be attractive, and men feel entitled to only the physicaly most beautiful ones (that was the discussion of another thread). Girls who don't fit that norm don't have access to guys they would be interested in as human beings- they're too busy with hot, superficial girls.

    When I want to have sex with a guy I can't? I empathize and realize he has access to any hot girl he wants, and would have no reason to want me. I realize there would be something wrong with him if he wanted me, like all the guys who have wanted me (they're insecure for having psychiatric or major physical problems, so they settle for screwing a fatty, having the same mentality as 646, just frustrated). So I continue loving the guy and being the best friend I can be and helping his interests, and swallow the rest as my OWN problem, which it is.

    Unlike MEN, if a man doesn't fall at my feet for virtue of me being a woman, I don't say it's his fault for not GRANTING me sex!

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