I gotta sex myself up some then, because I have had many male friends that aren't looking to score with me.
I dunno, Cass, see my comment above.
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Vortex - Nov 27, 2006 11:10:19 am PST #3316 of 10004
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
SonusExMachina - Nov 27, 2006 11:10:28 am PST #3317 of 10004
BOOK: "River..? Please, why don't you come
on out..." RIVER: "No. Can't. Too much hair." - 'Jaynestown'
All my best friends have been girls/women. All my guy friends have eventually ended up making moves on me. Based solely on my own experience, I think that guys only befriend girls that they are interested in dating and hope they get lucky one day.
In defense of males (or at least a small portion thereof)...
Most of my friends are female. And I haven't befriended them because I want to date them. In fact, most of them seem safer as friends because either I'm not interested in them or they're not interested in me. Or because they're unavailable since they're spoken for. Does that make any sense at all?
Cass - Nov 27, 2006 11:22:18 am PST #3318 of 10004
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Well if people don't know me well enough to know that I am hopelessly shy and unable to let them know I am interested, they deserve to remain in the friends zone. Or I deserve it.
It's safer there anyway. Things can get really strange once you leave that zone. Sometimes it works and sometimes we just don't have any further relationship at all.
I generally figure out someone likes me when we are living together. And even then sometimes I am not sure.
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Vortex - Nov 27, 2006 11:24:14 am PST #3319 of 10004
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My problem is that I'm so aggressive and uninhibited about everything else, how are they supposed to know that I'm an insecure blob of jelly when it comes to romance? I mean, I understand why people like me and hang out with me, but I can't quite fathom anyone wanting to date me.
Trudy Booth - Nov 27, 2006 11:24:58 am PST #3320 of 10004
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I wonder if maybe it seems women hurt us worse or more, because we expect them to know better or understand our feelings better. Not because they're all closer to the earth empathycakes, but because they're supposed to be one of us.
It's like when my not-bitchy-sister does something rotten its WAY worese than when my bitchy sister does.
And none of my friends try to sleep with me.
Daisy Jane - Nov 27, 2006 11:29:13 am PST #3321 of 10004
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I have had, err, intimate moments with each of my two guy friends, but we were good enough friends and not good enough anything else for it to be dropped pretty easily. They're also the ones I'm most likely to call if I'm really in the shit. They will show up and do something about it- which is why I don't call them if I want to just bitch and moan for hours.
Cass - Nov 27, 2006 11:30:53 am PST #3322 of 10004
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
My problem is that I'm so aggressive and uninhibited about everything else, how are they supposed to know that I'm an insecure blob of jelly when it comes to romance? I mean, I understand why people like me and hang out with me, but I can't quite fathom anyone wanting to date me.I aspire to be Vortex. Sometimes I am not even sure why people like or want to hang out with me. Boggles me totally that they'd want to date me. I mean, I have issues and shit...
And none of my friends try to sleep with me.P'shaw.
sj - Nov 27, 2006 11:33:37 am PST #3323 of 10004
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
And none of my friends try to sleep with me.
Me either.
Sometimes I am not even sure why people like or want to hang out with me. Boggles me totally that they'd want to date me. I mean, I have issues and shit...
Silly, Cass. It's because you're wonderful.
§ ita § - Nov 27, 2006 11:40:06 am PST #3324 of 10004
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a lot of male friends. Of the straight ones, I think that many of them would sleep with me if I gave them the chance, but they don’t want to date me.
Oh, yes, this. Very much this.
My friends of either gender have the same potential to hurt me, I think. I know some friendships with guys change dramatically if a GF comes into their picture, because it does look weird the amount we hang out. But if it's a good strong friendship, it's just a phase, and the longer and stronger the friendship, the shorter the phase.
Women? Drop me for other things. Motherhood is one.
I don't fault anyone for the above. There's only so much time to go around, and if we're all that, we'll be all that again when everything regularises.
As long as they don't all do it at once. That'd suck.
Trudy Booth - Nov 27, 2006 11:40:37 am PST #3325 of 10004
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
P'shaw.
Only when they're trashed. It's a thing.