El Brujo Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 (edited) Twenty years or so ago, playing hard-to-get was pretty much the rule. Then this thing, the internet, arrived on the scene, and someone had the great idea to take dating and singles online. A lot of people pushed back. They went on trying to play HTG just like they did years before... but then nobody pursued them. This did not compute. Then it finally hit: the rules had changed. People stopped trying to push back. They bade a sad goodbye to HTG, and the tears flowed for a long, long time. Sometimes we still have a few people who try to bring it back, but that's like telling people with a car to get a horse. Nowadays people are trying to push back against another new paradigm the internet has thrown in front of us. The old rules say that women must let men come to them, but I see a lot of women trying to do the wallflower thing and then they complain "waaaah! I'm not getting picked! Guys suck because they won't come looking for me!" I didn't invent the internet, and I didn't write the rules of dating... but the rules have changed just the same. Women may not like the idea that they're going to have to take charge and pick their men (unless they're happy getting hit on by jerks), but hey... it's part of the whole "equality" package. If women want the same rights as men, they'll have to take charge and risk rejection like men. Both men AND women need to stop being hung up on a bunch of rules because whatever works, works. Until then, I don't want to hear any more women complaining about only getting hit on by jerks. No guts = no guy. Edited June 24, 2012 by El Brujo 1
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