I'll Never Be...

After accepting an insurmountable challenge to read through a 20 page "guys ask girls questions" thread on a not-to-be-named-forum, and only getting 14 pages into the infinite wall of text before reaching for the hammer to bash my head in (yes, ONLY 14), I have begun to ponder the great divide of the genders. Not only because I've been noticing the significant lack of pull I'm getting in creeps, but because the whole thing is just plain riddiculous enough to be "piffle"ed.

So, onto my view of this quandary. As a start, I think both sides have no idea what the other wants really at all, as proven entirely by about 5 or 6 pages of males and females arguing their all completely different angles. I mean, yes I would say that nearly 70% of all cross communication between the genres is entirely with the subconscious goal of putting your specific flavoured nectars into or onto a body of another equally specific nectars to result in one of the two parties involved pushing out a baby beemonster(I am of course referring to in a more social setting than any other goal-driven work setting), BUT there are people out there that are more interested in the path to the goal than goal itself... Which is really where more of the fun is to be had.

Second of all, I don't believe that the majority of the media promotes a healthy or positive mould for either gender to slip into. Let's use two generalised extremes to make this black and white, shall we? On one side we have supermodels, baleemic slash anorexic celebrities who go out and pollenate(in every sense of the word) and the sex-ifying of nearly everything (because as the addage "goes, sex sells", more than honesty and good prices ever have). On the opposing side we have both the Mysoginisticly MANLY man(a self image largely promoted by sports and masculine pursuits) and at the same time a polar opposite, the SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy... or sensitive guy), an image put forward mostly by a cartel of high power wealthy women to breed a generation of whipped guys to compliment their "liberation"(thanks in part or whole to the baby boomers "liberating" them). Neither side is very positivly reinforcing what should be the reality, and that is that both genders are probably a lot closer to each other than you'd think.

And genders are 100% guilty of supporting negative stereotypes also. Case in point - the whole "guys will only date bitches" and "girls only date bastards". Yes, there are cases of both, however it isn't as common as you'd wantto think. Probably. I dunno, it just doesn't seem logical to me that the number should be that high. And the reason both sides that DO go for the bastards or bitches generally tends to be as some "project" to turn them into something more in their mold, though if I've learned anything from my internet friends the result is the opposite and they break up anrgy and bitchy/bastardy. So no, people aren't crazy, they're just stupid. Plain vanilla stupid.

Now onto personalities - here's a shocker. Both coinsides like more or less the same thing as a baseline average. That is :
- Doesn't look like Igor
- Is interesting, or sounds like is interesting
- wants to protect/be protected (as a more complimentary thing, rather than a polar opposites)

As a more personal offisde to this, some of this I long suspected a while back. As such, for the past .. 7-8 months, I've being trying something I'd like to call... OPERATION IVY. My great plan - try to improve my (in my books) otherwise mediorce public image. Sure, interesting clothes I've been wearing was a nice start (wo DOESN'T Like patterned or hawaiian shirts?) but I felt I could do more. So, I've been on a nearly 100% pleasing bender, wringing out my social skills with all the aplomb of a 18 Wheeler hitting a brick wall. The result- I really need more caffeine and coffe to sustain me. Seriously, it almost seems far too much effort to be interesting alot of the time. The last fortnight ,thanks in part to being slightly broke while I'm on a gap between my last job and my new job, has been caffeine free, and I am not pleased to say, it's really SUCKED to get through. This, combined with some added pressure from inconsiderate group project members and a whole shitstorm of late niht typing. The result is that I have been quite exhausted for whole straight days, and all drive is gone. It really has felt sucky. Reading the thread mentioned at the start then drove me over the edge. "That's it - humanity sucks and I am the bone of my sword".

Then I get to the nails and mortar of the matter as to why it sucks, and it is the same reason at the start of year(or was it last year?), I'm a lonely gamer slash artist slash inept inturned mook. And unless I grow some serious cojones to do something as rash, as suggested in the thread, as going all out and just laying it on the table .. or playing a game of subtle grabass cat and mouse.
I'll never be the guy who has those kinda stones, so I guess I'll just have do what female anon does- shut up, browse /a/, and wait until god delivers another book of weird porn.