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Old 09-26-2012, 01:31 AM
 
Location: State of Transition
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they are still lustful beasts. they might be less able to do anything about it, but they still try.
Who are these guys, on the whole, anyway? Are these mainly guys who spent their youth hanging out with their mates and flying to Thailand for sex? No wonder they can't find partners; after decades of hanging out with their mates, they have no social skills, they have no idea how to relate to women. Women are aliens to them, except for the ones they pay for their services. Does this happen with every generation? Has it not occurred to the male population that this lifestyle doesn't work, and leaves them high and dry in middle-to-old age? Why do they keep repeating behaviors over generations that don't work?
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Old 09-26-2012, 02:38 AM
 
Location: Australia
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Who are these guys, on the whole, anyway? Are these mainly guys who spent their youth hanging out with their mates and flying to Thailand for sex? No wonder they can't find partners; after decades of hanging out with their mates, they have no social skills, they have no idea how to relate to women. Women are aliens to them, except for the ones they pay for their services. Does this happen with every generation? Has it not occurred to the male population that this lifestyle doesn't work, and leaves them high and dry in middle-to-old age? Why do they keep repeating behaviors over generations that don't work?
Shame Ruth...I wouldn't hang out with those Thailand hooker types.

These are guys who have been married, spent their 20s and 30s having families, got divorced, now looking for another partner after a few years of bacheloring.

Hopeless. Wrinkled shirts and takeaway containers. It's like they live on the surface of the moon with no light, comfort, or nice things.

They are desperate for a womans touch and they know it.
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Old 09-26-2012, 02:50 AM
 
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Older people have a harder time because most of the quality is already married/taken.
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Old 09-26-2012, 03:40 AM
 
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Shame Ruth...I wouldn't hang out with those Thailand hooker types.

These are guys who have been married, spent their 20s and 30s having families, got divorced, now looking for another partner after a few years of bacheloring.

Hopeless. Wrinkled shirts and takeaway containers. It's like they live on the surface of the moon with no light, comfort, or nice things.

They are desperate for a womans touch and they know it.
Oh, thanks for explaining, I had no idea. I thought all along this was about those guys who failed to bond with women in their youth, then suddenly, as old age looms, decide they need a cook/caretaker around. I mean, those guys must be around and desperate too, eh?

Wrinkled shirts might not be a bad thing, if they're nice people. Though it's really not that difficult to iron a shirt...
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Old 09-26-2012, 04:55 AM
 
Location: Holiday, FL
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Online dating is your friend
Not even a "flash in the pan".
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Old 09-26-2012, 05:21 AM
 
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Don't know about this. A vast majority of the women I know regardless of education, social class or attractiveness spent their youthful years (late teens - mid 30s) looking for the Alpha Bad Boy, Rich Guy, Tall Guy (90% of them) and ignoring the others, then go through a man-hating phase or then decide "I need a good guy" when they start to age or lose their attractiveness (if they had any to begin with).

Then the betas are too busy saying "Eww, you didn't want me when you were young so no thanks". Then the women complain, complain, complain when it was usually the softer types who were looking for and wanted to give exactly what these women were looking for.
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Old 09-26-2012, 06:03 AM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
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Please, feel free to post those stats.
It's not something you could necessarily find stats on, but it's personal experience from having witnessed life. I have always heard women blabber on about their 'types' and their narrow criteria when searching for their ideal man. As a man, I am also saying we are generally not so picky, as long as you take care of yourself and aren't a total *****.
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Old 09-26-2012, 06:15 AM
 
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Great example of women with Height Requirements which decrease as they age:


ABC Nightline - 42% of Black Women Are Unmarried - YouTube

3:31 - "I don't have a height requirement per say like 6'5, but as I got older I said okay maybe 6'3, then maybe 6', well, now that I'm older maybe if we see eye to eye"

Comment on that page by LulaDeeable - The woman who had the height requirement is the reason why she still single. Its obvious she chose looks over quality when she was younger and she has to suffer the consequences for missing out on those good men who came her way but they did not meet her "height requirement."
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Old 09-26-2012, 06:18 AM
 
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that's the key right there. in a lot of the english-speaking "WASP" countries, there are a lot of taboos about how men are supposed to go about attracting women.

it's amusing, as a male you're expected to just "be charming", effortlessly without planning or thought, and that anything else is shameful. The standard advice on how to attract women is to simply "be yourself," as if making an effort to be charming was somehow less authentically you.

i say "english speaking WASP", because growing up in the american south it was very obvious that black kids were simply not playing by the same rules as us white kids. They were not encumbered by this vacuous idea of "Be Yourself." Where I'm from the black boys learn how to hit on girls starting around age 7, and a much wider variety of methods are seen as "socially acceptable." In my mind this is definitely a cultural thing.
Sorry... but what's "WASP"? Is it like the 80s Metal band W.A.S.P. (We Are Sexual Perverts) or would I be wrong in thinking that?

I don't have a clue. When I Google it I get "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" and "White and Single Professional" and "Web Analytics Solution Profiler" (although I think it's probably not the last one).
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Old 09-26-2012, 06:21 AM
 
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Sorry... but what's "WASP"? Is it like the 80s Metal band W.A.S.P. (We Are Sexual Perverts) or would I be wrong in thinking that?

I don't have a clue. When I Google it I get "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" and "White and Single Professional" and "Web Analytics Solution Profiler" (although I think it's probably not the last one).
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal term, often derogatory or disparaging, for a closed group of high-status Americans mostly of English Protestant ancestry. The term implies the group as wielding disproportionate social and financial power.[1] The term WASP does not describe every Protestant of English background, but rather a small restricted group whose family wealth and elite connections allow them a degree of privilege held by few others. When the term appears in writing, it usually indicates the author's disapproval of the group's perceived excessive power in society. People seldom call themselves WASPs, except humorously; the acronym is typically used by non-WASPs.
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