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Originally Posted by Briar Bing  Well, should I feel insulted that if Chip or myself point out that SOME women seem to embrace some sort of dichotomy with respect to men, we are probably passive-aggressive pussies? If it doesn't apply to you, or other women on this thread, then I am not sure where the foul is. I am not calling you a liar -- I am taking your word that you are not like that. |
No. I don't think you guys are passive aggressive pussies.
I am probably not doing this very well, this typing thing (I'm still a little hungover. Free wine at Art Walk, man. It kills) so I am sorry for my incoherence.
I've just heard it so many times and it really bothers me that it's so often an accepted wisdom, that women go for jerks. Granted, Chip did not say "some women." He said "women."
I think my point here is that relationships fail or succeed for so many different reasons that having some pat explanation is silly and wrong. We have seen different things and I know you guys are older than me, but I also know that I
am good at relationships (not that you aren't), and I am currently with someone who pretty much exemplifies what I've been looking for my entire life. I am not perfect and neither is he. I do not expect people to be perfect and I don't expect relationships to be perfect either.
Chip's old girlfriend's inability to express exactly why she left him or what was wrong with their relationship is something that is
hers, and not ours.
Also, a lot of the time we're told from a young age that men
are overbearing jerks and we should just deal with it. So some women expect men to act like that. It's nice that Malachi wants his daughter to understand this.