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AS for Chick Logic:
I'm curious as to how my post is full of "chick logic". If my logic isn't sound that's one thing, but that hardly makes it feminine, simply incorrect. If by chick logic you mean logic that follows the rules and conventions of society and not the conventions of pick-up, that may be the case. I am no expert on pick-up and I don't pretend to be one. I am just a girl with a casual fascination.
Not trying to sound misogynist, just that women tend to think in a non-linear, emotional fashion that really only makes sense to them. Your post was largely based on your experiences and your feelings of those experiences. Hence, chick logic.
No offense, but it was simply bad advice. I pointed out, point by point in my first reply to you, why it was such.
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As for messaging girls:
I admit I may have come out a little to strong on the not messaging point. You can and may have to message girls to get with them, especially the super, super hot ones. However I stand by the point that messaging a girl automatically lowers your value. I stand by this point.
Your "point" implies that guys should not message these girls, lest they "lose value." Well, that's a great idea! You hear that guys? Wait around and let THEM message YOU! Brilliant.
I get what you're saying. Point taken. Although FEMININE women understand that it's a man taking the lead and doing his job by making the first move.
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There are a couple of ways that I think IRL approaching is very different from online approaching that make messaging a girl lower your value more than approaching in IRL.
a. IRL approaching has a social cost. Online approaching does not.
How many dozens of guys suffer from the anxiety of approaching girls in real life? Lots. Girls are aware of this, we know that there are guys out there that want us that simply don't have the balls. Thus when a guy approaches us it shows that he has some measure of confidence. In contrast approaching online has no social cost, it's not face to face. It's incredibly easy to send a message from behind a computer screen. Lots of the messages that I have gotten from guys online seem to be from the type that I know would never come up to me in real life. Often this is betrayed by the nature of their openers, (your pretty, or wow I didn't know we could have this much in common, or I know that I'm a little old for you etc.), but even when I come across a witty one, I still am more skeptical of the opener than I would be in IRL.
You're talking about the kinds of guys that sit behind their computers because they're afraid to talk to women in real life. Have you never once been opened online by a guy with any actual game though? Or maybe you did, but you're preconceived notion about guys opening you didn't allow you to see it.
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b. There is stigma to being on an online site.
Around about ten messages is there always comes a point where the guy asks me why the hell I am on a dating website. Usually the conversation has been going good up until that point, witty banter etc. But they always seem baffled, they try and find out if I'm crazy, actually a man, etc. This is because often the girls online are indeed crazy/men/twenty pounds fatter/older then their profile says.
This stigma/skepticism hardly is onesided, if anything girls are only more cautious. Now you may say that this only proves that there is stigma to being online, not to messaging. But the truth is that most of the stereotypes about predators/creepers/perverts online come in the form of guys mass messaging girls looking for sex etc. And frankly most of the messages I receive, and my friends who are online say the same, are exactly that. (Admittedly few of them are registered on such sites, most of them are in relationships or find online too dangerous of a local. Ironically going to parties and getting drunk out of their minds is considered by them to be incredibly safe.)) So we stereotype, that the guys that message us are going to be creeps/not smooth because statistically that is often the case.
I mass message girls all the time. It's the only way to get a decent number of prospects to work for real. Yes, I'm looking for sex. I don't come right out and say, "hey baby, wanna fuck?" but I also don't hide my sexuality like I'm some fucking eunoch either. Think a flirty type of dialogue that involves words like, "bad girl" and "teasing" and "spanking."
Does that make me "creepy?" I doubt any of my girlfriends would say so...
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However statistically of the guys I message, none of them are creeps so I immediately enter the conversation feeling much more open and comfortable. Argue all you want about girls never messaging guys, but it's simply statistically untrue that females never message. In fact in a study of male vs female attractiveness on OK Cupid, there was a whole section devoted to female messaging patterns. If females never messaged or the amount they messaged was stastically insignificant I doubt that they would have devoted the time and energy to analzying data concerning their messaging patterns. ((I tried to post a link, but apparently I don't have enough posts yet.)) While females may message significantly less, the fact is they DO message. And it would be much better for you to be the one receiving than the one sending the messages.
And you know that they're not creepy when you message them again, how?
And I never said that women never message men. I get messaged all the time. I like a woman that takes some initiative!
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As for women enjoying older men:
First your point about the age group of girls you fucked was that they were young. But you mentioned that they were NOT from online game. As my point pertains solely to online game I fail to see your point. Also for the guy who pulls girls from mySpace and is 36. I'd be skeptical of the quality of girl he is pulling from myspace. I'd be tempted to believe that because he's pulling younger girls the hotness quotient is lowering and the piercing, lowered self-esteem, emo quotient is rising. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
And as I said, I don't message young girls because I can't take them into the bar with me, which happens to be my favorite night spot for "dates." As far as my friend goes, I'd be happy to hook you up with his email so the two of you could exchange pics. Fair warning though, he's a LOT more of an asshole than I am.[/quote]