2009-01-13, 06:42 PM
Quantact Wrote:This guide is flawed.
Think of all the men you've met, and how intricate and complex their personalities are. Women are probably even more complicated because their hormones can severely alter their mood. Moreover, a person can change his reaction given how he is treated. Most people would classify me as a guy that is good to girls, but one of my gfs was a psycho and a golddigger, so by the end I was screaming and abusive. It has been said that even the sweetest girl can become a peach depending on the level of abuse you heap on her. Finally, AGE changes people. I am 27, I am very different now than I was at 18. Similarly, a lot of girls, (I daresay most,) will change what they look for in a man, and will change themselves as they age. Jeannie in Forrest Gump was perfectly portrayed: she did heaps of crazy pomegranate, but at the end of the movie she's a stable mother; her past caught up to her in the form of AIDS, but many people, (including some of our parents,) will never reveal their crazy youth to us.
So, a person is not a certain type, he is what he is depending on circumstances the moment in which you catch him. Nasty people can be nice, (to certain people or at certain times,) and nice people sometimes act like assholes. The "types" portrayed in this guide are mainly useful as a regional or national indicator. The football-cheerleader culture of the South has some imitations in other places, but the WAY it exists is peculiar to them. And honestly, and thankfully, I've never met a father in the North who upon meeting me threatened my life if I mistreat his daughter, (this is standard in Texas.)
Let's leave the generalizations for anthropologists and sociologists, people. You cannot classify a gender in a few paragraphs. Men trying to make sense of general feminine behavior drive themselves insane, and even most women I've met can't explain a bunch of it, even if they identify with it.
No, I really don't feel like arguing this point. Books have been written by men trying to explain women, and women trying to explain men. It'll never become clear. Why? Friedrich Nietzche, ironically a huge mysoginist, put it best: "The same emotions in women and men are, however, different in tempo; therefore, men and women never cease to misunderstand one another."
It was never intended to be taken completely seriously, hence the lame jokes all the way through it. I made it as a way of just generally describing various personalities I've seen, not really for any purpose other than to see if anyone else had encountered them.