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All is Vanity See other All is Vanity Articles Title: What I've Learned Pretending to be a Man So, I’ve been posing as a guy online for nearly twenty-four hours with positive results. I am competing against a pool of polyamorous-vegan-feminist-omegas, but it’s still a minor feat nonetheless. A few things I’ve learned: - Men constantly have to be on. Not only were my initial messages to girls necessarily concise and witty with a healthy dose of denigration, but every succeeding message has to be interesting even if – as in most cases – the girl gives you a minimal level of conversational material to work with. It also has to be sensitive to her mood and the changing tone and course of the interaction. As my friend put it, the messaging process goes something like: Probe –> Response –> Calibrate –> Flirt –> Calibrate –> Exchange numbers The hardest part is constantly having to be interesting lest you fuck it up. - Women are fickle. Even if a sequence of messages seems to be going really well, a woman will arbitrarily change her mind at any given point if you did not re-calibrate effectively, or her competing options are disqualifying you as a sexual candidate. This trait in particular made me really sympathetic to the hoops men have to jump through when acquiring a girl’s attention, even though most women have nothing to offer. - Women are boring and have very high estimations of themselves. I mean, I really should say “people” in this case, because having maintained a female profile on such a website, I can tell you that most men (at least online) don’t really know what they’re doing either. The difference is the self-evaluation. Most men undervalue themselves online and most women overvalue themselves. I understand this is a natural consequence of the sexual marketplace, but after you read the literally hundredth, carefully worded profile of a girl touting her intellectual strengths and esoteric pop culture references, it gets EXCRUCIATINGLY boring. The annoying part is that she thinks she’s being really unique with her taste in independent music + film, off-kilter or “quirky” sense of humour (god, that word gets abused) and how intelligent she is (knowledge accumulation is very different from stringing two abstract thoughts together to make an original one). Please don’t get me started on the contrived neuroticism. Made-up example of something an urban, hipster girl will say in her profile with her thick-framed glasses: I tend to get lost in my own headspace a lot [focus on her self-absorbed, female emotional content]. Sometimes I ride the bus without a destination in mind. It makes me feel like a single cell in the mass organism of humanity. I’m studying sociology/gender studies/exchangeable liberal arts program and it’s intensely interesting. I’m contemplating going to grad school and getting increasingly useless degrees [remark that is simultaneously self-depreciating and attempting to be self-aware]. etc. etc. I can see how having to be in this frame of mind makes men cynical. I’ve heard men previously remark that they use male friends for intellectual stimulation and women for emotional companionship + sex, and now I understand the compartmentalization a little bit better. A high investment/low return interaction does make you perceive women as a monolithic category that don’t deserve much sincerity. I understand that is self-defeating to admit as a woman, but my male persona can’t help but experience it. While I think it’s important for men to develop charisma and personality, the fact that my profile (which indicates I’m a professional masturbator, who does drugs, seeks casual sex and lives with his parents) gets more attention than a relationship-seeking, professional who is being nice to girls, makes you wonder what fucked up mechanism is responsible for this. Real message I just received: Your profile makes you seem charming. And halarious. [sp.] Case in point. Poster Comment: This is rather funny. In real life I don't take most women seriously and if they say something stupid I generally patronize them and have for many years. The curious thing about it is that the unattractive overweight ones -- who think they've developed their intellect -- throw fits and become very hostile to me because I'm not taking them seriously. The more attractive ones tend to see me as a challenge. "I'm pretty and he's ignoring me?!?!? We'll see about that!!" Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: farmfriend, christine, abraxas, purplerose (#0)
Oops, I forgot to ping the girls so they can froth!
"You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
The linked article sounds so much like you, Turtle. About the only thing I'm frothing over is hot chocolate. It's a perfect day for it. Rainy weather and staying under my blankets.
Oh man, I had to give it up. have trouble breathing when I eat chocolate. changing the puppet does not change the play.
I thought the chemicals in chocolate made it easier to breathe. "You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
Not when you have allergy related asthma. I'm allergic to chocolate and it now makes my asthma worse. changing the puppet does not change the play.
Hush up, you demented little hobbit! "You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
chocolate covered primatene mist tabs. problem solved, moving on... “Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.” 53; Milton William Cooper,
Oh, the wonders of beer goggles! " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
They weren't drinking, just chasing me from room to room then outside as I was trying to get away from them. Attractive but stupid holds no interest for me. Never has. "You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
LOL
changing the puppet does not change the play.
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