Friday, April 29, 2011

Womanly virtues Friday

Unpacking Lucia
Okay, we've covered nine of Lucia's twelve reasons rationalizations why (some) women are attracted to bad boys creeps. What's left?

Well, wouldn't it be weird if some of the reasons some women do stupid things were to turn out to be their supposed moral superiority? Well guess what? Here are reasons #4 and $5:
Mother Nature: Women are designed to nurture. However, instead of doing this with children, they often end up doing it with bad boys. They think their love will save them. Nice guys rarely need to be saved.
Fixer-Upper: Nice guys don’t usually need to be fixed. Bad boys usually do, so they become a project. Women think if they can “create” the perfect man, he will never leave them. Also, if they’re busy fixing someone else, they don’t have to look at what needs to be fixed in their own lives.
This is actually the same reason stated twice only in slightly in different language the second time. Ah, those poor nurturing women always wasting their time fixing up creeps.

And wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that men are actually to blame for all of this? Well, have a gander at reason #12:
Protection: Historically, men have protected women—physically and otherwise. Bad boys give the illusion of being able to protect women, while with nice guys, women aren’t so sure. Life is about balance. Most men fall into either the bad boy or the nice guy category. The ideal man is neither, but walks that fine line between the two. Until men learn how to do this, more often than not, women will choose the bad boy, until they realize that his bad qualities outweigh his good ones.
This one cracks me up. Until men learn to walk the fine line between the bad boy and nice boy category, women will date creeps.

But seriously, it's our fault that women can't figure out that a guy who doesn't behave because he doesn't care if he loses the woman (reason #6) isn't going to be a good bet to stand by her when she really needs it?

Here's an alternative approach, stop blaming everything on the guy and try being better at being a woman.

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