From: martin@parst1.uucp (Martin Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: More From Our Files
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:53:02 GMT
Organization: Paradigm Systems Technology

In <1992Apr6.041133.17120@acsu.buffalo.edu> v026ltr5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Monty) writes:
>... She was very cold to me, very
>distant. Almost rude. She really didn't pay any attention
>to me, which made me feel kind of uncomfortable as a house-
>guest. So I'm sitting in her guest room feeling like an idiot
>because I'm obviously so grotesque that she can't even bear
>to introduce me to her parents. So they're all talking and
>what-have-you and I'm up alone in this room. She then explains
>that she didn't feel romantically attracted to me, and that
>she avoided me so as not to hurt my feelings. Thanks.

Heh heh - isn't this just absolutely typical. You know you're definitely
an oxygen thief when total losers, like this woman seems to be, try to
be charitable when they dump you. Can you imagine the awesome depths of
her cloying, contemptuous sympathy as she trotted out this pile of doggy
doo-doo? Gee, I'm actually getting depressed on someone else's behalf here!
Not that it takes much anyway, I suppose - so don't flatter yourself that
any _normal_ person might just give a shit about your problems....

>Is there any hope? Of course not. If I had read this group,
>I would have known that there IS in fact a group of males
>in the world who remind every woman of her brother, and
>every woman looks at and thinks that she'd really like to
>be just friends with us. Every single one of us has the
>following problem: every woman looks at us and thinks of
>a friend who might like us, but the friend never does.
>Instead, the friend thinks of another friend who might.
>That other friend isn't attracted to us, but can't figure
>out or accept that lots of other women don't either.

Brilliantly put! Maybe we should start a support group? At least that way
we could compound each other's misery and get around to doing ourselves
in all the sooner. On the other hand, that would be too easy, and I guess
such a pathetic bunch wouldn't have the guts anyway. I know _I_ wouldn't.
A bucket of hake fillets probably has more guts (and character) than a bucket
of me.....

>We are doomed, aren't we? Doomed to lives of watching women
>fall all over men who seem to have no personality at all
>and then having them complain to us about men. Doomed to
>having them torture us and coming back for more. Doomed...
>well, we're just plain doomed. I don't know what else to
>say. I hope this means something to someone. I'd try to
>understand it myself, but I'm too damn depressed.

Why bother. To butcher Douglas Adams's work a bit : If you actually managed
to understand the Universe (you know, that word always struck me as far too
nice to reflect the reality accurately. There should definitely be 
connotations of slime in there.) it would instantly disappear and be replaced
by something even more depressing. Another theory is that this has already 
happened - several times.

As for 'doomed' - you should be so lucky as to have anyone bother with 
'dooming' you to anything. Sure you'll watch women fall over men with
no personality, but there won't be any 'dooming' to relieve the endless
monotony of your existence. Yes, your article does mean something to me,
but then I don't count, so why did you even bother?

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