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[Sara Avalon]

[yaramaz]

hooo boy, that was a wonderfully presumptuous and indignant and sweepingly condemning post from our lad arioch. I want to retort in anger but I must first pick myself up from the floor where I am giggling uncontrollably.

First of all, Harlequin romances are shallow, dull, poorly written and stupidly predictable. Why should I want to read drivel?

Second of all, if none of us are willing to date or marry short men, who are? I don't know the stats but as far as I know there isnt a worldwide crisis declared by short men about their inabilty to find love.

Third, when I was in high school, my two main boyfriends were carless. We rode bikes a lot. We all had after school jobs and it was never assumed that they had to foot the bill for anything. They were really interesting guys, very smart, very creative, very witty. I find those attributes to be very sexy. Indeed, inreply to something someone said not too long ago: I would indeed say 'talk clever to me!' at the, um, height of passion.

Who were you dating? And what kind of shallow woman expects the man to pay for everything? You are going after the wrong women, my friend. There are some nice ones out there!

[saudade]

I think arioch makes some good points.

However, I will point out, there are no "where are all the tall guys", or "where are the hottest guys?" or "which guys are hottest, Koreans, or Japanese?" threads going on at the moment. It might be that we're all brainiacs on dave's and not representative of the general population?

Okay, gotta go back to Felicity now. It's a really good episode where she drinks orange juice directly out of the carton while describing her perfect man, who is short, poor, insensitive, but has really big feet.

[arioch36]

[Sara Avalon]

It's not women who are writing them, I'll tell you that. There's way too much emphasis on the "nest of hair" and "his protruding member" exciting the femme.

I used to read that stuff at the library with my friend. Our favorite was "The Shikh and the American Woman." Except:

"And she saw him wrap his turban about that glorious head of ebony locks. Her lips stroked by that long, pretty pink tongue until they shimmered a glossy red of anticipation. As he tucked the last little bit inside, her heart lept a beat as she studied his fingers, wondering how they would manipulate her own outer being with such perfect mastery.."

Or something like that.. but it was so amusing! Classic! Men are given too much credit in books.

I could care less what a man can do with his hands! To quote a man I once knew "A woman playing our flute will never be as skilled as we are at doing it.. " -- my sentiments, exactly.

*Contemplates starting up a satire about the good ol' romance novel*

[wordgirl]

"I could care less what a man can do with his hands."



Boy are you missing out! (I'm assuming you meant "I couldn't care less")

Sara, you are smart and funny and I like you, but clearly you have been hanging out with the wrong kinds of men. There are a lot of great ones out there. Ditch the creeps and move on.

[Sara Avalon]

xxx

[Capergirl]

[denise]

Arioch36, please tell me you're not basing male/female interaction on what typically happens in high school. Most people move on and grow up (and become a little bit more mature and less superficial in their choice of mates).

And please do not pigeonhole the ladies on this forum by telling us what, according to a western survey, we truly want.

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[Wolf]

Holy Hand Grenade, Arioch.

I respect women. I'm not in a relationship right now, but I've got female students, co-workers and bosses. I'm sure that most well adjusted women either want respect from their mates, or would want it if they had any idea what it was.

I'm also not willing to beileve that a bunch of statistics gatherers with a possible political agenda are going to be able to peer into the depths of my soul.

How many women are repsonding regularily on this thread? Half a dozen? All of which are well educated, experienced professionals. Is it really that wierd that such a small and relatively homogenous test group might give statistically anonamlous results? Even if such results were something that had universally acceptable credibility?

There must be very compelling reasons/experiences that have led to your outlook on life. Yet, I'd bet you dimes to dollars (jaio to yuan in our case?) that the women on this thread are telling the truth when they say that they don't like trashy novels, and also telling the truth when they say that they beleive in mutual respect.

As to your nice guys "score" last and teenager ideas, well, I've seen many exceptions to those in my short life. While I don't doubt that there are such people, these statements are hardly universal truths.

[Lanza-Armonia]

[James_T_Kirk]

[saudade]

This is a hilarious thread, although not always in a good way. My hats off to that wise sage sidjameson.

I thought arioch's original post had a fresh perspective and a good point or two, but sadly, his strident tone since then has made me forget what they were. I think it's funny to have a cow about Sara Avalon supposedly generalizing about men, and then follow that up by demanding that the women on this thread submit to your own generalization.

Okay, go to go polish my new gigantic shoes.

[Laura C]

Cheers, Wolf, so well said!

Arioch, just because the women replying on this thread don't conform to what you think women are like, doesn't mean we are full of it or lying! As someone said to Sara about guys, there are plenty of good ones out there. Seriously, maybe you just haven't found the right woman yet?

L

[saudade]

By the way, I think everyone who has posted on this thread should take a Chinese name reflecting their point of view.