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View Poll Results: When was the last time you asked a woman out?
Within the last 24 hours 2 3.92%
Within the last week 4 7.84%
Within the last month 13 25.49%
Within the last 6 months 9 17.65%
Over a year 23 45.10%
Voters: 51. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-12-2014, 12:50 PM
 
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Not once in my life. I could go on all day with stories about encounters with the opposite sex. But as far as women having dry spells and not getting male attention, not buying it. They don't count it if it's from undesirables. Sorry but it still counts.
A good analogy is this. If you are hungry and have no money in your pockets to buy anything, would you eat from the trash? Food you or most people don't want? Would you say your hunger doesn't count because you aren't digging though the trash to eat? Surely, there is food there if you want it. Or would you wait until you had some money and could enjoy something decent that won't harm you and your health? Doesn't mean you aren't hungry or your hunger doesn't count. Same thing.

A woman on a dry spell can go after the sketchy looking guy who cat calls to every woman he sees indiscriminately. But he's just as likely to be harmful to the woman both emotionally (and maybe health-wise if he dips his wick into anything) as that food out of the dumpster. Doesn't mean she's not "hungry", it just means she has sense enough to wait until she can find someone better for her so she isn't hurt, harmed, damaged. Doesn't mean her loneliness isn't real and doesn't count. And lets face it, we've seen it here with threads about "counts" women are still judged harshly by many for sleeping around. I happen to be the type of woman who doesn't have sex outside a relationship, so sleeping with a random man, not going to happen.

I would also say by your logic too, mens dry spells are voluntary too because there are always escorts out there. In fact, it's easier for a man to find an escort than a woman to find a man in a similar situation because escorts advertise. but some men don't want to go there... it's just as unappealing to some men they way it is for some women... and because they won't go there doesn't make their loneliness any less real either.
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Old 08-12-2014, 12:55 PM
 
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A good analogy is this. If you are hungry and have no money in your pockets to buy anything, would you eat from the trash? Food you or most people don't want? Would you say your hunger doesn't count because you aren't digging though the trash to eat? Surely, there is food there if you want it. Or would you wait until you had some money and could enjoy something decent that won't harm you and your health? Doesn't mean you aren't hungry or your hunger doesn't count. Same thing.

A woman on a dry spell can go after the sketchy looking guy who cat calls to every woman he sees indiscriminately. But he's just as likely to be harmful to the woman both emotionally (and maybe health-wise if he dips his wick into anything) as that food out of the dumpster. Doesn't mean she's not "hungry", it just means she has sense enough to wait until she can find someone better for her so she isn't hurt, harmed, damaged. Doesn't mean her loneliness isn't real and doesn't count.

I would also say by your logic too, mens dry spells are voluntary too because there are always escorts out there. In fact, it's easier for a man to find an escort than a woman to find a man in a similar situation because escorts advertise. but some men don't want to go there... it's just as unappealing and because they won't go there doesn't make their loneliness any less real either.

I have no idea what the purpose of this post is. All I see is mumbo jumbo. You're really going to compare an undesirable approaching you to an escort?
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Old 08-12-2014, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I have no idea what the purpose of this post is. All I see is mumbo jumbo. You're really going to compare an undesirable approaching you to an escort?
No, she's saying that if a guy really wants to have sex, he does have options. He can go to an escort or scrape the bottom of the barrel for women. But, like with a woman being approached by homeless man or a sleazebag, not all options are good.
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:00 PM
 
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No, she's saying that if a guy really wants to have sex, he does have options. He can go to an escort or scrape the bottom of the barrel for women.

Still not the same. Is the escort approaching him? If a undesirable guy approaches you, it still counts. This whole "I get no male attention" is bologna. Unless the woman is coming onto him, its not the same.
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Still not the same. Is the escort approaching him? If a undesirable guy approaches you, it still counts. This whole "I get no male attention" is bologna. Unless the woman is coming onto him, its not the same.
Counts for what? Are we keeping score? Many women aren't going to have sex just to scratch an itch, so the idea that they can "get sex" whenever they want, even if theoretically true, isn't a benefit to them.

And still, many women go about their day without being approached in a real and meaningful way by any man. Maybe they're looked at or fantasized about, but if that's just in the guy's head it doesn't "count" for anything. A polite "hello" in passing doesn't "count". A "hey baby" yelled from a car doesn't "count." So this whole idea that a woman is bombarded by attention so much that she just has to pick and choose is completely bogus.

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Old 08-12-2014, 01:03 PM
 
Location: LA, CA/ In This Time and Place
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A month ago on Plenty of Fish, a girl whom I was talking with for awhile.
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:15 PM
 
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No, she's saying that if a guy really wants to have sex, he does have options. He can go to an escort or scrape the bottom of the barrel for women. But, like with a woman being approached by homeless man or a sleazebag, not all options are good.
Thanks for putting things more succinctly for me.


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Still not the same. Is the escort approaching him? If a undesirable guy approaches you, it still counts. This whole "I get no male attention" is bologna. Unless the woman is coming onto him, its not the same.
Men don't approach much. Look at any post here on this forum... even this poll here where most men haven't approached in a year. A few do, but the vast majority do not (or very rarely do) by they own admittance. So unless the few that do approach are shotgunning and approaching every woman they see, it also means most women are not approached either.

The point is, most women don't have men coming on to them 24/7 like some guys here seem to think and the way men are responding with about half not even approaching a single woman in a year, it kind of matches what women are claiming about not being approached. And sorry, I don't count the guy in the car who speeds by and does a rebel yell cat call at me as any kind of "real attention."
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Jupiter
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Not once in my life. I could go on all day with stories about encounters with the opposite sex. But as far as women having dry spells and not getting male attention, not buying it. They don't count it if it's from undesirables. Sorry but it still counts.
Yeah, I agree with you. I don't buy it either. Most (if not all) women receive male attention every day.
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:17 PM
 
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Yeah, I agree with you. I don't buy it either. Most (if not all) women receive male attention every day.
Like I asked, from whom? Look at the numbers in this poll. Not many men approach all that often by their own admission.
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:38 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Yeah, I agree with you. I don't buy it either. Most (if not all) women receive male attention every day.
No, they don't. Not even monthly. You have no clue what women's lives are really like.
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