Relationships

[andrewducker]

This theory is not true.

Well, mostly not true.

Well, partly not true.

Actually, it seems to be true an awful lot of the time.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Pathetic as humor and even more pathetic if it's actually true for anyone.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

:-) Quite amusing.

Fortunately, I don't need a rich man and I already have an attractive one :-)

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

I bet the man who wrote that theory is one of those homophobes who is terrified at the mere idea of walking into gay space...

[sylphigirl.livejournal.com]

actually i thought it was quite amusing. so many friendships are based on attraction that is vigourously denied by most parties.

of course i'd sleep with my friends. they wouldn't be my friends if they didn't rock, and if they rock, i'll be attracted to them.

Ick

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

Wow, an entire pseudo scientific description of 'chicks dig jerks'[1]. How... special

[1]Which isn't actually true. But 'chicks' don't dig whingers with a sense of entitlement.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Tee hee :)

Actually there's an awful lot of sense in there. there were xeveral points where I actually went , "ow""

Viz
Scenario 1: Tom meets Jane. She's pretty and seems interesting to talk to. Tom and Jane start haging out and talking more and more. Tom develops an attraction to Jane, and one day tries to kiss her. Jane tell Tom she doesn't think of him that way and she wants to remain friends. The next few weeks contact between the two falls off. Jane starts fucking an outlaw biker.

*Choke*

Howver I think I can honestly say that I am NOT attracted to 50% money and power. considering i sopend my days surrounded by alwyers and middle class professionals and consistently go out with pennlies wastrels I am definitely more 50% attracted to the Outlaw Biker I think..

Whether this is ideal for me is Another Matter Entirely.

The ladders and how you always want to move up them things, is very very, scarily accurate I think.. (off to worry)..

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

As I said in my comments, it's true as far as it goes. There's more to look for, but this attracts the sort of people who want to use other people - and for those people, it will always be 100% correct.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of venting in this, with girls taking the flak. It'd be interesting to read the same theory from a bitchy female POV. I'd be amused.

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Deary, deary me.
That guy really hates women, doesn't he?

There are some really obvious contradictions in his theory - he says women rate guys mainly on how much money they have, then later on (in Construction of the Ladder) insists that they find unemployable alcoholics more attractive than regular guys.

And as to : IF A MAN FINDS YOU ATTRACTIVE YOU CANNOT BE FRIENDS
That's just nonsense.
If you're lucky then one or two of your friends will be yours unconditionally 'til death do you part. The rest of your friends come with all sorts of baggage which makes their friendship with you to some extent conditional on external factors. Fancying a friend is just one more type of baggage, but really it's not any more destructive of friendships than any other kind.
Friends who fancy you are just as "real" as 99% of the friends who don't.

Oh and he's using the classic defintion of "bitch" meaning "woman who won't sleep with me" (which he estimates as 99.999% of women) then later says "Not a single woman who wasn't a bitch has ever complained about misogyny at this site."
So that means, by his own estimation 99.999% of women would say he was being misogynist, while a mere 0.001% fail to see through him... :o)

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's true. It's just cynicism masquerading as honesty, and doing a very bad job.