I would totally prefer that to reading sex scenes! Sex happened, back to the plot. THANK YOU!

Okay, had to read that twice because I saw The Secret Garden at first, which I read in grade school and thought...I don't remember it being anything like that.

Same here, just like the vingette above, I just find those descriptions more comical than anything. And if they go on too long in whatever novel I'm reading I get annoyed.

Not to mention, why are some of the same people who complain about dead beat dads not being involved in their childrens' lives holding this up as some kind of ideal.

Funny, thing is, that's literally what the Russians are doing now!

I object, Brezhnev not only never looked young, he never was young. He was born at the age of 62.

Howard Zinn FTW!!!

Unfortunately that's often true. Normal and boring means you don't get hated on, but you don't get any dates either.

Not sure why it would be in a different league. I mean decent in the true sense of the word, someone who behaves with a sense of decency—pretty straightforward. As much as I don't like checklists, this is a must-have for me. So she has to be someone kind, considerate, and respectful to other people. That could include…

I agree, and never use it myself, because first impressions are important and the cookie-cutter approach isn't me, so that would give the wrong impression.

Great that you actually got a response! Guess there are still some decent human beings out there.

I agree. The way I see it, if someone has it in them to pull the fade on you, they're an asshole and not worth your time anyway. It sucks, but consdier it a bullet dodged and move on.

I can see both sides (and by sides I don't mean the assholes who harrass women, I mean the guys frustrated with jnot getting responses).

Oh, me too. I think there's plenty of frustration to go around because it can be hard for anyone to find a special someone for a serious relationship. I also think you're right that it's not a matter there being ANY single guys available who want a relationship, it's that the ones that THEY WANT aren't the ones that…

Okay so we're coming at this from different perspectives expressing mutual frustrations. From your end, you're seeing a dearth of datable guys your age, and from my end, I'm seeing a lack of dateable women my age. You're seeing guys your age as only going after younger women or only wanting a casual relationship, and…

You're absolutely right, looking at his comment again it was pretty douchey and disrespectful. I should have called him out on that as well.

Agree with her points or not, all of the idiots railing against her are only making her point even more loude and clear. And the bomb threat on top of it is not only partiuclarly insidious, it's about as obvious an example as it gets that the gaming community is a toxic environment for women, and it's filled with…

Yeah, the externalization game is going on pretty strong here.

Look, you keep telling guys what they believe and what they want even after plenty of guys are telling you, no, that's not what we think and that's not what we want.

No one is denying there aren't those types of women. The problem is the hypocrisy of these types of men. Women witness it all the time; men are shallow when it comes to looks but get super judgey if a woman is shallow in terms of money. Why is one type of shallowness more valid than another?-Answer: anything men do is…