Different Standards In Relationships

	posted by Adam on Tuesday April 15, @03:28PM from the Masculinity dept.
	MrDave writes "Buster offers much wisdom about how women attempt to manipulate men in thousands of subtle ways. Here’s a sample from his daily blog: “Women expect to be smiled at. They expect to be talked to. They expect some minimum level of courtesy and respect. If a man doesn't look at or talk to a woman, she thinks that there's something wrong. Women are fearful of negative attention; they take positive attention in stride. The one thing they find puzzling and disturbing is no attention at all.” For more see: Blogger Archive"

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a feeling of imposed responsibility (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Tuesday April 15, @08:24PM EST (#1) Thanks for posting that. There are many valuable insight's in Buster B's blog, though the entry you quoted is over 8 months old. I don't think he was so much referring to manipulation as an expectation of the part of women and a feeling of imposed responsibility on the part of men that men be attentive, solicitious, and "talk nice" to women in social encounters. Feminists, as is usually the case, make the same claim about men's expectations of women, but this is less true and certainly not something that most modern women abide by. -sd.

It's true. (Score:1) by Hunsvotti on Tuesday April 15, @09:57PM EST (#2) (User #573 Info) I had a conversation with my friend the other night about how all the dames in Los Angeles look at us fellas like we're all a bunch of serial rapists. "Don't pay any attention to them. At all," he said. "If you give them attention, it's what they want. But if you ignore them, it gets their attention. It makes them want to 'conquer' you by forcing you to pay them attention."

Re:It's true. (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Wednesday April 16, @05:51PM EST (#3) This is very true. I try hard to not pay attention at all. But with all of the "sexual advertising" as it's called, I admit that it is - at times - almost impossible to do. Mark

Re:It's true. (Score:1) by Hunsvotti on Wednesday April 16, @10:37PM EST (#4) (User #573 Info) Don't be led. Just ignore it, as you would a common whore, because that is what she is - an attention whore. By giving her the satisfaction of your looking, you are pandering to her.

Re:It's true. (Score:1) by MrDave (One_man (-at-) fastmail (-dot-) FM) on Saturday April 19, @07:58PM EST (#5) (User #1158 Info) "Attention whores"! Excellent description of women everywhere. And when they get a man's attention, a look, a nod, an answer to a question - they got what they need, and the game is over. They won. . - Mr. Dave . . . Reno, Nevada, USA

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