And you have many...

Has any man ever understood them?

being a nice guy sucked for me i learned that the hard way!

All humans will try to have that control over you, Lex, and over all others. We're a hieratchical archetype in our social outlets.

You just have more contact with women, that's why it's so much in your face that women want to control you. If you ever got a job, you'd see how much of that is going on not only by your boss, but by your co-werkers as well as your subordinates. The cleaner will tell you how to separate the garbage from the recyclables, and to remove all the staples. Then he puts all trash, recyclable or not, into one bin.

Man even wants to control god. We pray to our gods. It's like a woman nagging you to not cross your legs or to stop licking your upper lip.

Yeah, I understand that part. I think there's a sort of inherent sense that this is "how it's supposed to be." I just have no interest in any of it. I don't want to control anybody, and I sure as hell don't want anyone trying to control me. As for social outlets, since the only one I have anymore is on line, it makes the whole hierarchical thing kind of irrelevant.



That was true at one time, but I have virtually no contact with women whatsoever anymore. I don't know if that's good or bad.



I've had lots of jobs. I've only been writing professionally for three years, and I did a lot of other things before that. For the most part, my bosses left me alone. I was given things to do, and I did them well enough that no one felt any need to interfere. Sure, there was a recognition of the chain of command, etc., but it was never obtrusive or over the top.

I'd have to say that none of my bosses ever tried to control me, to change me, the way all but one of my former girlfriends did. The bosses let me be who I am. I know it's a completely different relationship context, but the sheer magnitude of the distinction between the two is something I find interesting.



Well, you're right, man does try to control god. I won't even try to get into all the things that are wrong with that whole premise.

More relevant to the topic at hand, though -- it isn't the nagging, per se, that bothers me. It's the idea that women don't want a creative guy -- and will do their damnedest to make sure he STOPS being creative -- while lying through their teeth the whole time about what they really do want. I'm just tired of it. If I have to choose between keeping my brain functioning or being in a relationship, I'm choosing brain every time. Nobody is worth my allowing myself to be turned into a brain-dead shlub whose only creative outlet is opening a box of cereal.

I wasn't going to post here, but, everyone has put some drama in the pot. Here's mine.

To think every Lady is the same, is a mistake. They all have those special little diffrences.

Annie is the loud type, while Lucy, is the shy type.

:)