Story Time: How I learned what women find attractive in a man

[geekalpha]

Those who have spent any time talking to me might gather that I invest a lot of thought in analyzing how things and people work. I have pretty much always been this way. I would also describe the majority of my life as having been a loner, although I am consistently accused by my friends as being a social butterfly. I find the incongruity amusing

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[corbaegirl]

Ok, I want to hear them all, just from the titles.

[geekalpha]

A couple of them have already made it into my Journal. I know the Pirate Story was posted sometime in the last two years. I looked at it recently, and I was pretty happy with it actually. It's not written the way I tell it, but it is well-written for an audience (it also has lots of submarine stuff cut out of it, which is how I usually start the story).

[geekalpha]

Wait. What happened to Arabic?

[caliginous]

As a girl I never understood the girl competition thing. I wasn't actually aware of it until I was 24(?) and it all relates to some stupid drama from other people at a friends 21st birthday. There were actually rules to the competition too. Bizarre.

[geekalpha]

When people treat other people and relationships like possessions and status symbols, this is what happens.

I have been known to smash women (their egos) who took for granted that because I have a penis I would have no choice but to be powerless to their charms*. Wrong answer. I get to choose too.

* I used to do this a lot actually. I was rather infamous for maliciously being misleading with girls who felt smugly entitled, just to watch their continued frustration as I failed to do their bidding. I've since decided that that was petty and mean-spirited (although funny at the time), so I girl really has to be an asshole that aggressively steps on my dick to get this treatment these days.

The reasons that I was really good at that game are that I have self-control, I have an overdeveloped sense of dignity and defiance, I was not invested in the outcome, and I wasn't flattered by the attention, seeing it for what it is.

[m_cobweb]

You should work through that list via LJ. No, it's not the same as in person, but that way I won't miss anything.

BTW, it's not just girls. I've been most amused lately by the things men will do and say (especially the latter) to impress women (including me). I don't know what's up with them lately.

[geekalpha]

Oh God, men are hilarious actually. We have such fragile little egos, and the games to impress people are just stupid. I just don't usually give a shit enough to notice their games or come up with any compelling narrative about their games.

[serpentmoon]

heh. I didn't know that competition business went on either until I was in my thirties. I thought that childish stuff was left in high school, so I didn't even recognize it when it was right in front of me. Like, right in my face when a certain woman leaned over the guy she was after and kissed me in front of him. So, then she dated him for a while and would wedge herself between us whenever she found us talking. AND then, that wasn't enough, after they split, she would interrupt my conversations with other men and distract them with her flirtations and kisses... can't remember if you were among them, though. But I don't think you were. To this day I don't know why she felt she had to complete. First, I don't go to the club to pick up guys, so she could have any of them. I wasn't competing. And second, she was about 10 sizes smaller - we were in totally different leagues. She would even give me dirty looks when there weren't any men around. Maybe she was just evil. *wtf shrug

[geekalpha]

But that makes the story less funny, which is suboptimal.