Doesn’t matter - you claimed it was a more common attitude among women, and were pointed out that it was common among men as well. Anyway, I don’t find your evidence compelling - I wouldn’t consider the women you know to be a “representative sample of women in society”. The women I know have no such rules about dating exes. Guess our anecdotes cancel each other out.
Frankly, I think it’s less about the sex of the “representative samples” and more about the age. I can see both men and women behaving this way, providing they were currently in high school. Maybe a little when they reach their early 20s, but by the time they hit 25, if they’re still acting like this then they clearly never grew out of something they should have. So it’s really not a guy/girl thing we’re talking about here; it’s more of a man-child thing (in the case of the OP).
Please stop referring to the OP as Mango. I keep thinking of the Chris Kattan character.
Urgh.
The difference is, you don’t know or even get to see the opinions and postings of the women I know, so you hardly have a foundation to even make such a claim.
@ Carl Corey my apologoies. The teenage son of Mango, doesn’t invoke a much better image.
Once again, doesn’t matter at all. Point is, you’re using anecdotal evidence and extrapolating it to apply to “most women”. Seems like you’ve been on the boards long enough to know why that’s wrong.
And you, sir or madam, fail to see what forum we are in.
Sir, FTR. And I think the aim of the boards overall trumps the (assumed) leeway of the forum.
Fail again. This is an opinion thread and forum. There are no right or wrong answers, just differences of opinions. I think your opinions are wrong. My “anecdotal” evidence may be anecdotal “in your opinion”, but not to me. Go back to GD, where you belong.
Bullshit. This forum is not a bubble where logic and facts don’t apply just because it’s named IMHO. Your “evidence” isn’t just anecdotal in my opinion, it’s anecdotal by definition. Plenty of people get called out in this forum for faulty reasoning.
As I have called you out numerous times in this thread.
You missed my point. That was a jab at the OP for not growing out of the attitude, and a lot of guys don’t grow out of that attitude. Google “man rules dating ex” and you’ll see that it’s nowhere near an unusual attitude or that it is somehow exclusive to “chicks.”
Even the Miller Light Man Laws series of commercials plays on this attitude. Or this website on “Man Laws”.
“Girls” constitute a fungible commodity only from an extremely immature point of view.
Real men do not drink Miller Lite.
And “real men” don’t have “man laws,” but that doesn’t change the fact that there is a popular idea of Man Laws out there, and your assertion that “guys do not” have these sorts of rules, and that this is solely the province of “girl rules” is demonstrably untrue.
Now, see, that’s an opinion.
Nope it just means that there a lot guys that live by “girls rules”.
And that’s a fact. 
Stay classy.