Dating
I’ve found that if you ask a girl (or a boy, but I’m a boy so…yeah) out on a date, sometimes they usually say the following as a reason:
“Well I don’t know anything about you.”
Well….maybe if you went out with me, you’d KNOW more about me! Girls and guys seem to have a list of artificial, and for the most part, superficial reasons for not wanting to go out with someone else. They aren’t good looking enough, or maybe not enough money. But let’s face it, the only way you’re going to know whether or not you like a person is if you go out and spend some time with them. Sometimes you will go out with someone and NOT like who they are, and at THAT point, I find it totally and completely acceptable to say “I don’t want to see you ever again”. Because at least you’ve given it a shot.
One of the hardest dating problems it seems to get around, is if the person you’re dating has a kid. Because all of a sudden, you’re a parent, and you’re not even married! It’s like being a teenager all over again. If they have a kid, then suddenly you have responsibilities. Your date may ask you to babysit, and the kid will ALWAYS, and yes, this is true, ALWAYS come first, ESPECIALLY if it’s the mother who’s the single parent. Mothers put their children in front of everything, Fathers put their WORK in front of everything. Go ahead, call me an asshole.
I call myself realistic.
m@rk
September 6, 2008 at 2:04 am
Guys are interested in good looks, tight clothes, and, far too often, someone who they can push around, while girls tend to gravitate towards the money. And you’re definitely not being an asshole – historically, mothers raise the kids and fathers bring home the bacon. Even with all the gender-equality movements and feminist groups these days, people still tend to act that way because it’s what generations have taught them.
Sometimes I wish we could de-evolve some of these nonsensical romantic notions and go back to doing mating dances. Or, in the words of the great poet Harry Wayne Casey, “Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight,”
September 6, 2008 at 2:19 am
Yes, Harry Wayne Casey WAS a philosopher. Really, I used to go to a normal high school, and had to leave the school because the kids there made me physically ill. Their slang (not all, but most), their obsession with looks, it was just getting to be too damn much, and still is. No matter how far removed I am from the youth culture, it still is everywhere. It’s one of the reasons I have no respect for younger kids. Because having gone through high school and middle school, and having known nice kids who turned into assholes, I just know that a lot of the kids who are born every year are going to go down the same path. I think it still does boil down to the parents ultimately. I certainly agree with a lot of the feminist arguments, but I do think they tend to take themselves way too and way too seriously sometimes. Nobody should come together, I want everyone separated, ha. I’m only kidding of course.
m@rk