Well, I guess you knew it would come to this eventually, the rant
on the opposite sex. It's not like I have any shortage of
material. I've been getting hurt and/or disappointed by girls
for about as long as I can remember, but then again, so have most
of the guys I know. I've been dumped for no apparent reason and
told why I was being rejected with extremely cruel honesty, but
that's not worth writing about in an "Occasional Rant."
What I've decided is worth "Rant" status is the fact that girls
let guys run their lives. (Don't get me wrong, no girl has ever
given me complete control of her life, this is coming from a
different angle). I've now had the extreme displeasure of being
ignored by and distanced from a friend due to the jealousy of her
current boyfriend. She knows that he's treated every other girl
he's ever dated like dirt, but somehow that doesn't seem to
matter. The fact that, for as long as I've known her (including
when we were dating), most of her friends are males, doesn't seem
to matter either. She's submitted to the fact that he has told
her that he doesn't like her talking to other guys, and she's no longer allowed to do so. Last time I talked to her she seemed
nervous about it, and told me that if he knew he would be mad and yell at her. I told her that I couldn't believe she was putting
up with that, so she told me she could "handle it." She didn't
seem to understand the difference between being able to handle it and deserving to handle it. It's not like I'm the only guy to
have gone through this, either. What is it that makes girls
allow guys to run their lives? And don't say love, because love
can coexist with friendship. I don't know what it is. I can
give you all of the psychological reasoning behind it (or at
least a lot of it), but that doesn't stop it from making me mad.
Guess I've bored everyone enough. Feel free to comment in the
guest book or e-mail me at [email protected].
