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- Evilblobs, on 09/14/2008, -14/+212That was one of the dumbest articles I've ever read.
- amilo000, on 09/14/2008, -8/+196Men like to see their penises in other women.
- vinceislegend, on 09/14/2008, -7/+153Boobs.
- MetrologySWEng, on 09/14/2008, -2/+87I never understood masochistic women who should know better, chasing after the total badasses and end up seemingly surprised when she discovers he is really a a**hole like everybody else knew, and ends up having to get a restraining order against him. Then looks for the same behavior in her next BF! Enjoy abuse?
- positron, on 09/15/2008, -6/+741. My penis
2. My tongue
3. Another woman's tongue
4. Toys
5. Vegetables - algaeturd, on 09/15/2008, -0/+67Brilliant. This is why the divorce rate is over 50%...people have the worst, most unrealistic expectations.
Mr. Perfect? Are you ***** kidding?
You want a real relationship and a lasting marriage? Try Mr. Adequate. You'll be lucky to find that.
Women complain that all men want Pamela Anderson and then they turn around and they all want their unrealistic version of Mr. Perfect.
Can't just be happy, have to dream for the unreachable. - mlmorg, on 09/15/2008, -4/+64i am actually dumber after having read that
- vault, on 09/15/2008, -2/+60This is something an immature girl- not a woman- would write. Author needs to grow up.
Guess you can't expect much else from someone whose bio says: "My sign is Cancer, but my birthday is close to the Cancer/Gemini cusp. That's Cancemini in my book." - StigNordas, on 09/14/2008, -1/+37I always try for the slut, but end up with the one you can take home to mom.
- trucex, on 09/15/2008, -6/+41Really, this article is atrocious.
Men and women both want the same thing in a relationship: someone that is interesting, healthy, well groomed, about equally intelligent, capable, trustworthy, considerate, and sees things along the same lines as them (not exactly the same...but not completely different either).
Likewise, men and women both want the same thing in a sex partner: someone that their friends see as attractive who can tease a fair amount, doesn't seem like a creeper, and is actually interesting.
'Nuff said. - firebirdx01, on 09/15/2008, -1/+33I like the credentials she uses to back up her vast generalizations here:
"Having been a single woman living in Los Angeles for a while now, and being the ever-observant creature that I am"
Key word: single. - rearlgrant, on 09/14/2008, -2/+33I'll take all five, thank you. Either separately or all together. I'm not picky.
- RogerTourbiner, on 09/14/2008, -0/+30Take Home to Mom Girl seeks Mr. Perfect. Yawn.
- sapphire9488, on 09/15/2008, -5/+33wtf? I want my 2 minutes back.
- solistus, on 09/15/2008, -6/+31This list is ***** terrible. To sum it up:
Men want a woman who's easy. Or one who's not easy. One who's independent. Or maybe not. Then there's a generic category for an "all-around great catch," without really defining what that means. So to sum it up, men want... Anyone?
Women want a guy who's a jerk. Or maybe a knight in shining armour? And what shockers, they like men who are intelligent and fun to be around... What, no categories for dumb, boring men just to make sure the list is as all-inclusive as the what men want list? Then we have an even more vague "whatever kind of men they like" cop out at the end.
This nonsensical article provides shallow explanations of stereotypical images of men and women. It doesn't actually attempt in any meaningful way to isolate the differences between the sexes in terms of their partner preferences, or even to identify 5 specific things either gender wants. Where's the "Buried as a waste of my ***** time" option? - kterrance, on 09/15/2008, -1/+24I'd throw in another guy - the young at heart. He's not exactly the bad boy, but is a little immature but fun loving. For me at least this is the guy I can never get away from. I always want to be younger and running around with a a guy who never seems to mature gets me every time. However, I can never envision us growing old together ;)
- MetrologySWEng, on 09/14/2008, -0/+23True, but from an evolutionary perspective he won't provide for you or the kids either. Until recent times, a pregnant woman or woman with small child was quite vulnerable on their own. It's hard to gather food yourself or fending off a tiger while 8 month pregnant, and/or caring for infants/small children. Giving birth on your own? Magic 8-ball says outlook not favourable... Even nowadays, you won't collect much support payments from a thug in prison.
- 1forallallfor1, on 09/15/2008, -7/+29This is going to be a long comment, but it's copy-pasted from another website. If you're going to tl;dr, you're missing out on a good story.
This is called "The Parable of the Spineless Man [Nice Guy]"
There once was a man without a spine.
He was a very likable guy. The advantage of not having a spine was that he could fit himself to anyone, and he frequently did. He could flex this way and that.
But he couldn't stand up ...
...and being kinda mushy and flat most of the time, people often walked on him without realizing he was there.
So he got sad, having this dreadful absence of a spine, and he was resentful too. He wondered why other people couldn't fit themselves to him the way he fit himself to others, but that was silly because he never felt he had the right to ask anyone directly to fit themselves to him. He was formless, what was there to fit to anyway? In cyberspace he talked tough as if he had a spine, but people could clearly see by his rage and resentment that he didn't have one in real life, and he perished in the flame wars he provoked and only came out feeling more ashamed and ineffectual.
He wished he could be with a woman, to help him the way a spine would. If he clung to a woman with a spine, he could stand up, but women didn't like it when he did that. He often called them "bitches" for the women with spines coldly asked him to let go of them, or unceremoniously shrugged him and his issues off onto the ground telling him to get his own spine.
If he fancied a spineless woman, on the other hand, he couldn't get her interest because they were looking for men with spines that they could cling to. But the spineless women would hang around with him for sympathy, and he'd be their platonic male friend and play "therapist" though he was as sick as they were. He'd often call himself a "feminist" and lecture these spineless women how to stand on their own when he had no idea of how to stand for himself.
With all the bending and flopping around he did, a spine never could get a chance to grow.
Then one day he had a brainstorm, he decided he'd make himself a spine.
He took a long stick.... and he put it far up his ass.
It was an improvement, though uncomfortable. It was the first time in his life he could walk tall, if not a bit stiff. He found he could have opinions at odds with others, and stand for them. He found out that he didn't have to be liked, that the world didn't end if he pissed someone off. He didn't want to fit easily with other people anymore, in fact he became inflexible.
People commented on the change, some people didn't particularly like him with the stick up his ass but they did notice him more. Some people felt that at least they could respect him, even if they didn't always like him because he did less whining. At least nobody stepped on him by accident.
However relationships still didn't come easy, it was hard for a woman with a spine to love him with the stick up his ass. He was stiff, cold, brutally opinionated, condescending, and self-righteously hostile. But eventually he did attract a very pretty woman without a spine who saw him as a tower of strength to cling to.
At first he loved this woman, he thought the stick up his ass was the answer to his dating problems. He was finally being loved the way he once loved others. At first it was great, and then it was good, and then it was ok, and then it was uncomfortable, and by the end of a year it was infuriatingly suffocating. The spineless woman clung like a straightjacket. The horror!!! The horror!!!
But the stick up his ass made him so inflexible he didn't know how to get the spineless woman off of him, If only he could bend. He was trapped, upright in his "obligations", "duty to her", "guilt", "pride in his commitment", he spent months with his arms helplessly flapping about trying to get her off of him and trying not to look like he was doing that.
He was hoping that she would leave by hinting her indirectly, he used sarcasic tones, said mean things that were "just a joke", neglect, "constructive" criticism intended to insult. He only made the spineless woman feel more insecure, so she clung HARDER.
Spineless men envied him, called him a jerk for the way he was treating her, just the way he remembered how he used to envy other men before he had the stick up his ass (when he'd play consoler to their teary-eyed spineless girlfreinds). If only they knew what it was like to be on the receiving end of a spineless person's embrace they'd understand. He wished she'd leave him for one of the spineless men who envied him. He felt ashamed for the way he must have made women feel in the past when he was trying to cling to them, he knew that they weren't so evil after all.
One day he decided that there was only one way to be free of the spineless woman once and for all, the stick up his ass had to go.
So he pulled the stick out, and to his amazement a miracle happened: he was still standing! All of the years of inflexibility allowed him the chance to grow a spine. At first he was still a bit stiff but eventually he had the flexibility to contort a bit and yet maintained the firmness to struggle, push, and wriggle from the spineless woman's grasp (though she protested much). He stayed far out of her reach and the reach of other spineless women so that he could never be grasped by one again.
He was overjoyed with his new-found freedom; he could bend sometimes like he used to (but not too far) and also he could stand tall. He went out, partied, enjoyed life to the fullest, and eventually found a woman with a normal spine like his.
They stood together as separate individuals giving mutual support and enjoying time alone too, and lived (relatively) "happily ever after"... - puffinstuff, on 09/14/2008, -2/+24Don't see myself on that list. no shock there.
- tracylee, on 09/15/2008, -1/+22Well, having been a single woman in her 30's living abroad for a while now, and being the ever-observant creature that I am, I feel that this article is the most immature, poorly concocted tripe that I've been tricked into reading for quite a while now. Author needs to grow up, publisher needs to hire people with more life experience.
- gogog0, on 09/15/2008, -1/+22lmao. read the description and laughed. just because you are a single woman living in los angeles means you know what men and women want? are you kidding me? go get a degree in psychology before you try and act like you know how people work. this isnt sex and the city, your opinion means nothing unless you know what you are talking about. buried because the article is written by an egotistical whore
- inactive, on 09/14/2008, -4/+24Man Boobs? No thanks.
- toddwdraper, on 09/15/2008, -1/+20you comb your back hair?
- Nemon, on 09/15/2008, -1/+19I can't believe I wasted my time reading the whole thing.
- jnordb, on 09/15/2008, -0/+18Just glad you didn't say all ten.
- JulieBrownfield, on 09/15/2008, -1/+18You should be looking for a girl that's like the old saying "chef in the kitchen,a lady in public and a nasty slut in the bed room" Good luck with that!
- inactive, on 09/14/2008, -5/+22Let's look at this from an evolutionary perspective. Okay, sure, he's gonna treat you like ***** and eventually leave you. However, think about it - he does this with every woman he meets, which probably means his seed gets spread around quite a bit. And as much as you might despise him, that would be quite a useful trait for your children to have. If you end up having a kid like him, he'll go around spreading his seed, too - which is exactly what you want from an evolutionary perspective.
- Exzhaton, on 09/15/2008, -0/+15Lesson learned: Don't take advice from people that live in LA.
- Klak, on 09/15/2008, -1/+16men and women like generally desirable traits in the opposite sex. who knew?
- MelvinSchlubman, on 09/15/2008, -1/+15The short description line of about 1/3 of womens' online personals ads are "looking for my knight in shining armor". I suppose they think it's quaintly romantic. It's a warning sign that they expect a guy who's no less than perfect. Skipped.
- juliebiala, on 09/15/2008, -1/+14Those women always think they will be the one to "tame" him, that her experience with the guy will somehow be different. It's just stupid, even arrogant, thinking.
- edein, on 09/15/2008, -0/+13the moral of the story is dont leave the stick up your ass too long.
- bpmox, on 09/15/2008, -2/+15It's just a list of ***** stereotypes. What garbage.
- moriddim, on 09/15/2008, -1/+14I agree. Both immature & trite.
- OneLess, on 09/15/2008, -0/+13I was talking (drunk, granted) with a couple of women friends last night and the consensus seemed to be that nice guys are 'boring' and that the ***** are more fun to be around.
- Canadian0207, on 09/15/2008, -4/+166. ???
7. PROFIT! - MonoDede, on 09/15/2008, -0/+12Cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, eggplants, pickles, squash... I could keep going, etc. etc.
- bjornski, on 09/15/2008, -1/+13Their sense of humor won't be hanging at waist level at age 45.
- SergioValente, on 09/15/2008, -0/+11Where's "Project Boyfriend"?
- soulkitchen, on 09/15/2008, -0/+11Or as Alfred Hitchcock said, "every man wants a woman who's a lady in public, but will unzip you on the cab ride home".
- bjornski, on 09/15/2008, -0/+11The "tl;dr" crowd will miss a good one here.
- Motivaaator, on 09/15/2008, -0/+11or toothless hobo?
- exeprime, on 09/15/2008, -0/+11Good post, mister.
- badboys213, on 09/15/2008, -1/+11What can I say, they like the leather jacket and combed back hair.
- 80andyhigh, on 09/15/2008, -2/+12Every guy wants 'The Knockout', which is the problem.
- OneLess, on 09/15/2008, -0/+10Seems like a bit of circular logic there. If women aren't attracted by this trait to begin with, then his 'seed' is not going to be spread around. So you then have to explain evolutionarily why this trait became attractive to begin with. That's not to say there aren't reasons, but you've totally glazed over it with an overly-simplistic explanation.
- JackDN, on 09/14/2008, -3/+12Pizza.
- CapnFark, on 09/15/2008, -1/+10A lot of women have been so taken in by the Sex and the City mantra that their standards have gone far beyond what would be considered a good catch. The author's standards are so beyond anything she would actually perceive in a man she will never find what she hopes to find.
Move out of LA if you want to find a Good Man™. There's plenty of us up north who would be thrilled to find an intellectual. Just... not one who write inane articles like this. - archer104, on 09/15/2008, -0/+9Ya I don't get that either. I try to put myself in their shoes and think would I want a girl who treats me bad and beats the ***** out of me which will make my loved ones view me as an idiot? Pass.
I think that those women are confusing that as strength when it is really self-centeredness and a poor upbringing. - junk2006, on 09/15/2008, -0/+8Very true thats the only type of girl I date
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