Where's your faith, baby?

More blogging inspired by reading other blogs when I should be sleeping.

Hey, I took my cold medication, I'm just waiting for it to kick in.

So, more comments on the "theory" referred to here.

The part that annoyed me about the criticism of the theory, and yes, I realize that everyone is rallying around the blogger here (I like it when my friends to back me up, too)... the part that really annoyed me was that I could see myself saying something similar, from a place of sincerity, honesty, and with no guile or ill will.

I meet or have conversations with women.

Some of them attract me, some don't.
Some I want to be friends with, some I don't.
Some attraction will be sexual in nature.
Sometimes it will be exclusively sexual, sometimes it won't.

How does that differ from anyone's experiences?

Are some people so wrapped up in the concept of a gender war that they can't see the commonality?

I will grant you that there are players out there, dishonest people masquerading as decent when they're not. But you have to be pretty cynical to believe automatically that every member of the opposite sex (whichever sex you may be) is a liar simply out for their own interests.

What's even more annoying to me is that I believe this cynicism was applied to myself. Someone I dated was so cynical about men that any inadvertent misstep on my part was interpreted as meaning I was a wolf in sheep's clothing. It tore me up. Tore me up and still does.

Either have some faith, or quit dating. You're messing things up for us innocents.