Posted: Sep 7, 2006, 12:22 PM CST
In response to:
Why do all guys assume all I want is to get laid? What signals could I change to be taken more serious? What kind of behavior will make be taken serious?
Aha! See, I'm not the only one it's happening to. I don't know you but my guess is, you're not giving off any certain type of "signals." You're a female. That's all it takes for some guys, and, for some, it doesn't even have to be that.
I'm having to deal with this "crap" from a guy right now who keeps insisting that he's interested in me, yet the conversation always goes back to how much he "wants me." I've explained to him until I'm blue in the face without actually literally spelling it out to him how, if he's SERIOUS about purusing a RELATIONSHIP with me, he'll act in a RESPECTFUL manner towards me and he says he understands that. Then, in the next breath, talks about how much he wants to have sex with me. He even tried to refer to me today in an IM conversation as his "girlfriend!" We've only met ONCE! Does he REALLY think I'm THAT stupid???
So he says, "Well, what's WRONG with me wanting you?" I says, "NOTHING'S wrong with it! But you are MISSING the big picture here!"
I think a big part of it is because, in this day and age where the "f*** 'em while you got 'em" attitude is so prevalent, amongst both men and women, and women are so much more "loose" these days (and I mean specifically with regard to the language they use and the boldness in which they'll just come right out amongst a group of total strangers and talk about how well they perform this or that sex act)that men truly don't see what they're doing "wrong" when approaching a woman in this way. And some are just scummy ill-bred horndogs who wouldn't know manners if it hit them in the face...nor do they care.
So, the only thing I've found out is that the only way to stop it from happening is to stand your ground and lay out the "rules" that YOU are comfortable with. Previously mentioned horndog says to me yesterday, "Give me some 'lovin'' (his word, not mine) to prove to me you're really interested and then I'll give you what you want."
Now, does this idiot think I just fell off the turnip truck? Anyone KNOWS that in a romantic/dating relationship that sex is going to naturally be a part of it. I mean, it damn well better be, if I have anything to say about it. But, geez...I don't even know this guy. My wild and carefree one-night stand drinking days are long, LONG since over. Maybe there are no gentlemen left who knows or even gives a damn about courtship anymore..but...until or unless I find one, I'll just remain single. Makes no difference to me. Sexually speaking, I can take care of myself, if that's what it has to come to.