Sean's Soapbox: How Good Do Girls Have It?

As a male I'm consistently frustrated by how often a woman complains how difficult she has it in the dating world. This might be a bit of a controversial view, but as I am a male, it's no surprise that I would draw my conclusions from my viewpoint. A friend of mine in Broken Hill who is in her early 40's wrote a post on Facebook complaining how men treat woman. I found out she had fornicated with a few men, some of which were in their mid 20's and loved being single. I was enraged when I read that post. Here I was, a decent, nice enough guy who always treated everyone with respect, reading a post about someone who can get sex at the click of her fingers, with men much younger, and still had the audacity to complain about the small details.

Some of my female readers might suggest these 'small' details are quite pertinent. I might agree, which is why I decided to become a female and see what men were really like.

I'm always annoyed by memes on Facebook which make the girl out to love the tender emotional side in relationships and the guy just wanting sex. A recent news story reported a man faked a female profile on a dating website and could not handle the harassment, quitting the site after only 2 hours. Bullshit I thought. I'm getting sick and tired of all this one way traffic. Theres an analogy that I can use as a metaphor here: you can have a hundred channels on Pay TV and they can be all crap. Thats how I'm portraying a females relationship prospects. I'm a Broken Hill TV circa 1992 with only ABC and Seven as the channels. Variety is the spice of life, and I'd much prefer to have 100 channels of crap. I understand the annoyance of going through all the shitty channels only to find a few moderately ok ones, but this is akin to a millionaire complaining about there being too many car models on the market.  

Talk about reinforcing a stereotype. No wonder I can't get laid.

I joined the dating site Plenty Of Fish on June 30 last year. In that time I have had 25 profile views and 10 meet me requests. I was beginning to feel like a depressed, unattractive loser. I needed to see what a girl would experience on POF because I had heard it was equally unpleasant in it's own separate. So I created a fake account on Plenty Of Fish using first, a very attractive girl, and then a moderately 'average' girl. The 'average' girl's account was at the time of writing created about 2 hours ago and has 27 profile views and 11 meet me requests. I created the attractive girls profile last Thursday and have gotten 377 meet me requests. There are too many profile views to count. A common criticism I've been told is the staggering amount of sleazy messages that you are bombarded with. I did not find any problem here, everyone was generous.

I want to be as fair as possible when performing this experiment and one day for a proper paid published article I would like to thoroughly explore all the details I might be skimming over; however for now, I feel justified my quick view of the woman dating world on POF is justified. I wish I had it as good as a girl does. Relationships are such an important thing in life.

I can't get a root to save my life, save going to a brothel. Ladies have a plethora to choose from. They get to choose from if not the cream of the crop, then a vast array of men. Please ladies, understand it is achingly depressing hearing you moan about men when all some of us want to do is have a stimulating mental encounter with you.

Pink sings in the song You + Your Hand: it's just you and your hand tonight. Yeah, that's me and a lot of other males every night of the week.

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