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Old 09-22-2003, 08:20 PM   #20 (permalink)
Astrocloud
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Originally posted by anti fishstick
i think the 'modern woman' does this to say "hey, i'm a woman, but i can do this too!" it's a sense of empowerment and feeling in control. it's a response to all those double standards and gender inequality still going on today. but, it's part of the problem... not fixing it. it's still power role relationships.. it's still using sexuality as power. it's still acknowledging the inequality then stooping down to that level. and it's not just about the one-night stands. it's breaking up with their boyfriends, making sure they're the dumper and not the dumpee (being in control), and then shrugging it off like it was nothing.
I have nothing to say about this other than I am secretly in love with people like you. I guess it's a phenomenon like the male-based phenonom of "groupies". I am one of your kind's male groupies.

I know this sounds completely silly. It's also obviously self deprecating. Yet, this is also somehow amazingly true. I love women who walk all over me and then throw me away. -even though it does nothing to serve me. I mean right now, this whole date thing seems typical.

The whole story above, where I give anything to some random woman on my first or second date... has happened repeatedly to me. (They often don't call me back.) I have many gay friends who have told me that I am a "bottom" in a heterosexual way. (Yeah, I'm hetero not bi.) They also tell me that in gay terms... those women are bitches.

But you know, there is something about them which draws me. I mean, each experience indicates that I know what can happen and I am a willing participant. Just because I'm lied to doesn't mean that I'm completely a dupe.

Perhaps this is a bit too reflective. I'm not sure.
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