Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Atropa - Aug 05, 2009 11:00:42 am PDT #2184 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I don't believe in soul mates but I do think that there's more than one potential mate out there for each of us and that love is more a matter of compatible crazies than finding someone perfect

Yes. Good lord, yes. Pete and I aren't a perfect couple by any means, but we're a good team and our crazies are compatible.

Maybe you should advertise yourself as a "surreal man."

Hee! I think that's a good idea.


msbelle - Aug 05, 2009 11:00:44 am PDT #2185 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

why would you not consider yourself a real man? I would suggest those women learn better adjectives. I would also probably ask them what they mean. Like who have they met or seen that they think of as unreal?


Jesse - Aug 05, 2009 11:01:00 am PDT #2186 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What does it mean when a woman's profile says she wants a "real man"?

Cis?


lisah - Aug 05, 2009 11:01:27 am PDT #2187 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I've never really understood why friends don't set each other up more, but at least here it doesn't seem to happen much. I don't do it, so why would I expect my friends too?

Totally, you should! My thing wasn't a set up, our mutual friends didn't even know Bob was going to come to their baby shower, but he was someone they always claimed they would have set me up with if we lived in the same town. Ha! who knows?

What does it mean when a woman's profile says she wants a "real man"?
Well, she could be an idiot who has very stereotypical ideas about how men should be but maybe she just means "wants a grown up" and is phrasing it badly?


tommyrot - Aug 05, 2009 11:03:01 am PDT #2188 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

why would you not consider yourself a real man?

'Cuz usually in that context, "real man" = macho or whatever, which I am not.


Dana - Aug 05, 2009 11:03:52 am PDT #2189 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I want a Honda Fit for my next car, I think.


Jesse - Aug 05, 2009 11:04:04 am PDT #2190 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I would hope they mean someone who can take care of himself as a grownup.


msbelle - Aug 05, 2009 11:04:16 am PDT #2191 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Maybe I will look at all my single male contacts in LA tonight on Facebook and see who would be good for Allyson.


tommyrot - Aug 05, 2009 11:04:26 am PDT #2192 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Although my brain works in weird ways. When I think "real man" I picture the guy from the Marlboro ads... dressed as a cowboy, riding a horse, smoking, gay....


shrift - Aug 05, 2009 11:04:55 am PDT #2193 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

What does it mean when a woman's profile says she wants a "real man"?

If you're lucky, possibly she means she wants a man who isn't a Apatow-esque man child or a spray-tanned dudebro with ridiculous hair.

If you aren't lucky, she's been conditioned by a patriarchal society to expect a man to conform to her own bizarre set of rules, and if you can't do something on her checklist, you have failed at being a real man.

I am a woman and also real, but I suspect that I don't qualify as a "real woman" most of the time.