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- From: twillis@ace.syr.edu.npac.syr.edu (Thomas Willis)
- Subject: Re: Attn: Women, is the sensisitve guy good?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.024240.28704@newstand.syr.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:42:39 EST
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- Cari wrote:
- : I also want to say that the reason I used "appear" in the first paragraph
- : above when I said "appear to be uncaring brutes" is because I think
- : some of those who come off looking that way aren't devoid of sensitivity.
- : I have gone out with a few people who did seem to fit the "uncaring
- : brute" description outwardly, but when we got past that appearance
- : that was often put up for a variety of reasons (peers, insecurities,
- : whatever), there was some sensitivity underneath all that and a
- : lot of other nice qualities....
-
- Let me predicate this by saying that Cari's statements are
- completely valid and rational, but every silver lining has a cloud...
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- Recap of subject: DO PEOPLE PREFER MORAL CRIPPLES TO SENSITIVE FOLKS
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- 2 cases:
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- 1) A beautiful young girl I met as a freshman was so into
- muscles, that she went out with this extremely handsome
- and well build complete loser that lived on my floor. He beat
- her up ("oh, but he was drunk when he did that, he didn't
- MEAN it.") later date-raped her, etc... There I was,
- putting icepacks on her eyes, consoling her, giving moral
- support (not to mention advice :"What the f* are you
- doing with him?"), but whenever he was around, her heart
- would be all aflutter.
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- She and I still talk on the phone alot, and she almost
- never fails to bring up how "Wuuuunderfullll" he was.
- That f*ing RANKLES!!! Moral of the Story: it happens.
-
- 2) The beauty pagent babe. I'll make this short -- I gave
- her ALOT of leeway because I wanted her personality
- to be as beautiful as her body. She abused that leeway
- for years. Superficially, and at a deep, deep level
- she was self-centered and uncaring. I, alas, tricked myself
- into believing it just wasn't the case. (This is not a
- stereotype of beuatiful women or beauty-contest winners --
- merely a case study.) Moral of the Story: Guys do it too.
-
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- 3) I have more examples, but I think I'll pipe them to the
- net.therapy.rant.rant.rant group.
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- My Solution:
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- Most people are easliy enamoured by confident, good-looking
- people and (I believe) the majority will prefer this to a caring-
- average looking person, regardless of personality. So, what I did
- was just think about how f*ing outrageous life is while I pounded
- away at the heavy bag, did calesthinics, and jogged. I acted like a
- brash ass, as pompous as possible, sat back and waited, a sheep in
- wolf's clothing. I'm in a new town, so everybody thinks that's
- how I rally am. The results were no worse than whan I was a 20
- year old, 98-pound, bleeding heart knight in shining armor. Girls
- approached me at the bar! (Cross post that to alt.heart.attack).
-
- Postscript: 6 weeks ago, I said f* it all, gave up working
- out and started chain smoking again. I still often act like an ass,
- because it's really fun -- it's cool when all your acqauintences
- in a 50 mile radius think your a deranged genius :) I did, however,
- decide that my "Mr. Sensitive" routine, i.e. my personality, was
- not as effective as 150 pushups a day in the quest for romance.
-
- I figure that getting girls isn't as important as doing "my
- thang" and being myself. Check that -- I mean it isn't as fun.
- Most of us happen to have occasional en-passant relationships,
- without expanding any energy in making it happen. True, it doesn't
- happen as often as on "Star Trek" planets, but it happens. Well,
- I guess I've made my point. I'll make sure to Xpost this to
- (alt.violins.in.the.background and alt.blackmail.me.please.please.please).
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- caio,
- tj
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