Dear Attractive Married Women: Plz Wear A Ring.

[Una_Persson]

@kayaker

As a guy, I feel you pain. Well, I feel something.

Ironically I feel nothing, except embarrassment for having to let them down. Monogamy all the way for me.

[Broomstick]

@Ibanez

Gee I wonder what the first thing women do to detect if a man be single ?

Answer: The same damn thing that men do, check for a ring.

What a load of bullshit - even fewer married men wear rings than married women do.

Like I said: ask the person. It’s a much more reliable indicator that what they do or don’t wear on their hands.

And let’s face it - a lot of men don’t care if the woman is single or married, they’ll hit on her either way. Plenty of people see marriage as just a speed bump towards an affair and not a real obstacle.

[Crazyhorse]

@MeanOldLady

Although that might not be a bad idea. Next time I get married, I’m going to buy a “Vagina Occupied” tee shirt. Perhaps an accompanying fleece as well for the winter weather.

Get one of those cute ones that says “My vagina is occupied and all I got was this lousy tee shirt!” Then your husband could wear one that says “I’m with her vagina ----->”.

No reason dashing hope can’t be fun and lighthearted.

[doctor_krieger]

As a fellow single dude I get your frustration, but she doesn’t have to wear a ring to show off her marriage if she doesn’t want to.

[Giraffe]

@RickJay

You are perhaps taking this in slightly more grave a manner than the OP was intended.

You mean the OP where you angrily denounced that whore of a slut for falsely advertising her attractive meatself to you and then whorishly withholding it at the last moment? It was pretty clear to me that you were in desperate need of repeated explanations that it’s possible to ask a woman if she’s married or maybe just treat her like a person and simply be friends with her for several years in which case the information will come out naturally and also how dare you.

[Tamerlane]

@Seanette

He’s still acting all outraged that she dared not be available to him, and couldn’t be bothered to find out such a basic piece of information before asking her out and was all whiny about how she dared to not advertise her status.

Huh. I didn’t get that from the OP at all. Maybe some wry ruefulness. Which is almost as bad. I guess. Somewhere.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

Forget rings indicating marriage, I’d like to have rings for overly sensitive assholes so I know who to avoid talking to.

[alice_in_wonderland]

@Happy_Lendervedder

Forget rings indicating marriage, I’d like to have rings for overly sensitive assholes so I know who to avoid talking to.

Or hats maybe.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@MeanOldLady

Damn, y’all need to calm down.

Yeah.

@Giraffe

You mean the OP where you angrily denounced that whore of a slut for falsely advertising her attractive meatself to you and then whorishly withholding it at the last moment? It was pretty clear to me that you were in desperate need of repeated explanations that it’s possible to ask a woman if she’s married or maybe just treat her like a person and simply be friends with her for several years in which case the information will come out naturally and also how dare you.

Yeah! I like this one better! {Picks up pitchfork, joins villagers}

[Freakenstein]

@Broomstick

Sure they can ask. But when she says “no” it’s unreasonable for them to call her a deceitful bitch or whine she didn’t advertise her “taken” status ahead of time. He has a right to ask. She has a right to decline, or not, as she chooses for whatever reason she has.

@Seanette

He’s still acting all outraged that she dared not be available to him, and couldn’t be bothered to find out such a basic piece of information before asking her out and was all whiny about how she dared to not advertise her status.

I didn’t see any name-calling or outrage in the OP, he evens say plz. To Me he was more like heartbroken. And I didn’t see anything indicating that he does not any more think that she is ‘Absolutely perfect. Not only beautiful, but obviously smart as hell, personable, and funny’. He fell down high and obviously don’t want this to happen again.
And he didn’t even ask her yet, he was just noticing things he liked, trying to get to know her better before asking. Isn’t this exactly what You are saying he should have done.

[Lord_Ashtar]

@Broomstick

Like I said: ask the person. It’s a much more reliable indicator that what they do or don’t wear on their hands.

I agree. It’s important to ask if you’re married so you can casually slip in that your spouse is in a wheelchair. Then you can misconstrue something they say as them suggesting that you should divorce him for it and get all self-righteously indignant about it.

[njtt]

@Seanette

Here’s an idea: actually get to know the PERSON before you start hitting on her, instead of going “ooh, pretty piece of meat”. You see, when you actually know the human being, things like marital status tend to become known.

So, only ask her out after you’ve already had two or three dates with her, huh?

[Belowjob2.0]

@LouisB

Wedding rings are meaningless. Sometimes it just takes a little longer with married women.

I’m a cynic, pay no attention.

You’re an honest man, and you don’t want people to hate you for it.

 Married women are often so eager that they will act out inappropriately in public places. Corner you in the elevator. Touch you a little too intimately in the break room. Let it be known, in the course of casual workplace conversation, that she and her husband are "no longer intimate". 

 What am *I* doing this weekend? My usual round of activities. I can only assume that you'll be spending the weekend with your husband and your two young children. The ones whose pictures decorate your cubicle. You know, the ones you say you love so much. 
 "I could get away for a couple of hours," she says, with shiny eyes like a hungry.  cat. An appalling answer to a question I never asked. 

Marriage don’t really got nothin to do with it.

[Malacandra]

@Lord_Ashtar

I agree. It’s important to ask if you’re married so you can casually slip in that your spouse is in a wheelchair. Then you can misconstrue something they say as them suggesting that you should divorce him for it and get all self-righteously indignant about it.

wheels in gurney, begins mixing up plaster of Paris

[Troppus]

@RickJay

You have to admit the ring would make the process a hell of a lot simpler and, potentially, less uncomfortable.

Maybe, but that shouldn’t matter since you’re still going to be friends with her, right? I mean, since you have so much in common, and she sounds like someone you would continue to enjoy spending time with even with. Surely you don’t plan to forget all about her since she’s sleeping with someone else.

[zweisamkeit]

@scratch_llll

Beg pardon? You are calling me a creep for my innocuous post or the just the guys you have to wade though so much they annoy you? I’ll grant I don’t get hit on so much that I have any understanding of that problem but it seems an odd reaction. And sad. Personally I haven’t had my ring off in so long it would take an axe to get it off.

Jesus Christ, when you were school-aged, you routinely scored in the bottom 1% for reading comprehension, didn’t you?

[Belowjob2.0]

@Una_Persson

It’s different with lesbians. They happily ignore any ring on your finger and still leave you their number on a card. Sometimes if you tell them you’re in a committed relationship, they bring up doing a threesome. Ask me how I know this (looking through my card collection…)

Because they know this works. Maybe not on you, but on the next married lady.

[FlyByNight512]

@RickJay

You are perhaps taking this in slightly more grave a manner than the OP was intended.

Eh, just because it’s light-hearted doesn’t mean there isn’t patriarchal bullshit in there. A small amount of patriarchal bullshit, sure, but feminists are still going to call it when they see it. Especially in the Pit.

[elucidator]

How do you know when a woman is a feminist? Don’t worry, she’ll tell you.

[VinylTurnip]

@Belowjob2.0

Married women are often so eager that they will act out inappropriately in public places. Corner you in the elevator. Touch you a little too intimately in the break room. Let it be known, in the course of casual workplace conversation, that she and her husband are “no longer intimate”.

 What am *I* doing this weekend? My usual round of activities. I can only assume that you'll be spending the weekend with your husband and your two young children. The ones whose pictures decorate your cubicle. You know, the ones you say you love so much. 
 "I could get away for a couple of hours," she says, with shiny eyes like a hungry.  cat. An appalling answer to a question I never asked. 

Wow. You work in a Skinemax movie?