Nah, he’s not a loser. Probably just gay.
That is the truth behind all generalizations and/or stereotypes. They typically have at least some basis in fact, but only when spread across a wide sampling and looked at in regards to averages and percentages.
In proper usage, I think generalizations aren’t at all a bad thing. It’s when broad, sweeping judgements are applied to individuals that they become dangerous and misleading; be it by race or gender or socio-economic status or career or whatever.
I get tired sometimes of both males and females presuming that because I have a penis I must be out for sex at all times, and (should) have no qualms about lying and cheating to get it, careless of the emotional pain I might leave in my wake of conquest.
Personally, I think that there are about as many men who aren’t willing to put their dorks into anything with a heartbeat as there are men who are. It’s just that they ones who are seem far more prevalent because they are more aggressive, more vocal, and more likely to be in “meat markets” like clubs and bars, and thus maintain a more visible and memorable public persona.
Eonwe is a GUY? :eek:
Heh … I agree with you wholeheartedly but still, I guess I never knew which gender you were, not that it’s the be-all end-all in life. In fact I sort of envy the sort of mystery that comes with not having a firm Internet gender.
However, even if I DID desire to have a Man Card, I’d have to turn it in as this:
made me think of John Mayer.
I would like this to happen to me. But don’t they always say to be careful what you wish for? My luck, it wouldn’t come back. So I guess it’s back to the usual.
I have found my sig line! 
Permission?
Hey, whatever. Sig it if you please.
I just wanted to say why. It wasn’t that I disliked them per se (one had a very nice personality). But the shape of that body sends a shiver down my spine. I think some may have weighed twice what I do.
I’m not much into the football, guns, beer and brawling aspect of masculinity… but I am certainly fast in getting horny and desiring sex… so I guess I pass the Man Test of hormones…
Still I understand the OPs rant… I had a girlfriend who thought that foreplay was only for her benefit and readiness… that men were locked and loaded in 1.5 secs and needed no stimulus besides the visual.
Hey… we like chatting, romance and foreplay too ! Not more than sex… but we do !
I’m 46, and I seem to be pretty highly-sexed, but I’ve always fallen well short of the of the always-ready-to-go-at-the-drop-of-a-skirt stereotype, even when I was younger. I would think any man who really was like that would be lacking in self-control.
I think it’s hilarious when women ask if a man is gay in response to being spurned – I guess any woman who doesn’t want to sleep with me is a lesbian, huh? (I hear have to recall comedian Ted Alessandro, who complained about people thinking that since he’s single, he must be gay: “Hey, I might be a superhero!”)
Originally Posted by astro
“Granted, it was less of an issue when he was younger, but now that he’s 17 or so are the sensibilities of middle aged woman like Rowling able to accurately capture how a 16-17 year old (presumably heterosexual and perpetually horny) teen aged boy would look at the world, or is he still completely rated G?”
Do you expect Rowling to portray the morning noon and nightime ritual of a pubescent boy standing in front of the big white bowl with the door locked and ready to wipe up the tell tale signs of pubic hair on the rim? Yah, I’m talking about my youth, which would be completely G rated as far as my own mother knew or anyone else for that matter.