They Actually Exist
Today I actually felt like a working person again. I mean, I work everyday but because I communicate completely via e-mail, it's like I play in a virtual world and someone sends me a check every couple weeks. Today, we started a weekly teleconference. I talked to actual humans. Live! It was a typical teleconference and I really hate meetings but it's nice to know other people exist.In a total shift of topic, I've lately been wondering if men think that they need to cave to everything their dates are interested in because they think it's polite or nice or something. I don't know whether it's a book or a movie where the heroine yells at her boyfriend about agreeing with her all the time, "What if I don't want Thai? What if I want Peking Cat?!" Seriously, where is the spine? The personal opinion? If I disagree, that's great. Dissension can be good - At least it shows personality.
Someone on a board today wrote exactly what I had been thinking earlier in the day...
"Beware of "nice" guys. A good number of them are weak, and weak people are bad news in relationships. I see X as one of these guys who is always saying "women don't want nice guys, they want a man who mistreats them." No, they don't. They want a man with a spine who knows who he is and what he stands for, not some guy whose sole personality trait is "nice."
posted by E @2:02 AM