# My Standards Are Not Too High For Girls **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094 "2012-03-28T23:43:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/41 "2012-03-29T01:30:22Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > I treat women with respect. I’m just being honest by saying that I can only be happy with an attractive girl. By the way, “girls” sounds cool Sure, it sounds cool…if you’re talking about 12-year-olds. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/42 "2012-03-29T01:30:37Z")
I get the feeling the OP is the kind of guy who cries about his lack of luck with women, blaming his looks and income for his woes. When his idea of a date is staring across the table like a leering creep, and within an hour he has already asked when she is going to suck his dick. Let me guess you’ve had bad dating luck, nothing but psycho bitches out there huh? You could try approadhing women as friends first of all instead of hookers, you seem to believe women are sex vending machines. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/43 "2012-03-29T01:34:37Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > Your human insults possese no power 2 make me feel bad. You’re just tryin 2 deceive me into stop associating with escorts so I can feel depressed That’s the best thing I’ve ever read. Clearly, we have much to learn from you. Yakuza is officially my new favorite poster. \*“\*Human insults”\*\*… I’m still laughing ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/44 "2012-03-29T01:35:07Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > Ok but still I didn’t say all, I just said most, if not all Uh-huh. When was the last time you’ve had a deep, meaningful conversation with a “female” that you were not related to, and did not pay for? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Yakuza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@Yakuza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yakuza)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/45 "2012-03-29T01:46:18Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I get the feeling the OP is the kind of guy who cries about his lack of luck with women, blaming his looks and income for his woes. When his idea of a date is staring across the table like a leering creep, and within an hour he has already asked when she is going to suck his dick. Let me guess you’ve had bad dating luck, nothing but psycho bitches out there huh? > > You could try approadhing women as friends first of all instead of hookers, you seem to believe women are sex vending machines. I’m not some sex crazed creep. I’ve tried 2 get 2 know a girl well, be friends with her, and be nice and respectful 2 her but that still didn’t work. Girls are too distracted by the fact that I’m a 27 year old guy and I work in a retail store. Anything I have 2 say is tuned out because of my low income job ---
**Author:** ![Yakuza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@Yakuza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yakuza)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/46 "2012-03-29T01:48:45Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > Uh-huh. > > When was the last time you’ve had a deep, meaningful conversation with a “female” that you were not related to, and did not pay for? Seriously? I have meaningful conversations with girls all the time. I’m just not foolish enough 2 ask them 2 go out with me because of my financial status ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/47 "2012-03-29T01:51:50Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Don’t worry, there are plenty of fish in the sea. He’ll have salmon chanted evening, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/48 "2012-03-29T01:54:35Z")
I can state with authority and confidence that I do know exactly what girls go for. For a given value of the set “girls”. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/49 "2012-03-29T01:57:34Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > He’ll have salmon chanted evening, for sure. And if you pay 2 fuk she but she don’t put out… sushi. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/50 "2012-03-29T01:59:35Z")
How does getting to know a girl, being friends and being respectful “not work”? You end up with a friend you know well and respect. Oooooh, you mean the girl realized you were only acting that way to make her think you respected her as friend and were really only in it to get her to sleep with you. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/51 "2012-03-29T02:11:15Z")
> [@conurepete](#): > > How does getting to know a girl, being friends and being respectful “not work”? You end up with a friend you know well and respect. > Oooooh, you mean the girl realized you were only acting that way to make her think you respected her as friend and were really only in it to get her to sleep with you. I guess that’s what I don’t get about the OP. If you have plenty of female friends, it’s only a matter of time until one needs a FwB. ---
**Author:** ![Yakuza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@Yakuza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yakuza)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/52 "2012-03-29T02:13:38Z")
> [@conurepete](#): > > How does getting to know a girl, being friends and being respectful “not work”? You end up with a friend you know well and respect. > Oooooh, you mean the girl realized you were only acting that way to make her think you respected her as friend and were really only in it to get her to sleep with you. I do not act nice simply 2 get sex. Now yes, sex is part of my mission, but having a relationship is part of the mission as well. The reason they don’t want me is because of my low income job ---
**Author:** ![Yakuza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@Yakuza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yakuza)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/53 "2012-03-29T02:17:51Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > I guess that’s what I don’t get about the OP. If you have plenty of female friends, it’s only a matter of time until one needs a FwB. True, but they"re only gonna want a FWB who has a good paying job. A lot of females look down on me because of my job. The ones who respect me only want 2 be friends. I can’t take it 2 the next level because of my low income job ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/54 "2012-03-29T02:22:15Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > The ones who respect me only want 2 be friends. I can’t take it 2 the next level because of my low income job Question. You must be aware that there are plenty of other low-income guys that do manage to get and keep a significant other. (Hell, I can think of a few acquaintances just off the top of my head; you might have a few too.). What makes them different from you? ---
**Author:** ![Yakuza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@Yakuza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yakuza)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/55 "2012-03-29T02:36:55Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > Question. You must be aware that there are plenty of other low-income guys that do manage to get and keep a significant other. (Hell, I can think of a few acquaintances just off the top of my head; you might have a few too.). What makes them different from you? They have the gift 2 get free girls. Some things in life are unexplainable such as the gift that some guys have 2 get a free girl, sometimes the guys aren’t good people. And its also unexplainable why good guys like myself can’t get a free girl ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/56 "2012-03-29T02:49:32Z")
I like the way you have divided women into free girls and escorts. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Kind of like the way some guys divide all women into sluts, dykes and dogs. Sluts if they sleep with you, dykes if you want to sleep with them and they won’t sleep with you, and dogs if you have no sexual interest in them. For the record, back when I was young and hot, I slept with lots of guys, both with well paying jobs and without, just because I liked them and they liked me, not because they paid me to. Income was never a deciding factor. But if you want to tell yourself that women won’t sleep with you unless you pay them to because you have a low paying job, that’s ok. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/57 "2012-03-29T02:52:23Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > They have the gift 2 get free girls. Ah, the gift. Well, then, that explains it. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/58 "2012-03-29T02:53:19Z")
The gift to get free girls is not unexplainable, there are quite a few people here trying hard to explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/59 "2012-03-29T03:13:29Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > And its also unexplainable why good guys like myself can’t get a free girl You gotta send in the boxtops. I don’t think they put the free girls inside the cereal boxes anymore, due to more stringent sanitation standards. And seriously? The “2” schtick is getting old. If you can type out “unexplainable,” you can type out “to.” Quality girls don’t go for guys who write like 12-year-old script kiddies. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/60 "2012-03-29T03:19:03Z")
Yakuza, I worked in retail until a year ago. I know what you mean about free girls not wanting a retail worker; none of the guys I worked with had any luck with women. Well, except the 17 year old who had knocked up his girlfriend, the 23 year old married guy and the 40 year old married guy were both expecting with their wives, the 27 year old who dumped his fiance for someone he met through work and ended up marrying her instead, the 22 year old guy who broke up with his girl and used to get free girls phone numbers all the time during his shifts, the 19 year old already had his girl when he was unemployed but kept her when he became a part time retail worker, that guy whose age I don’t even know who got married not long before I left, the former gas store clerk who came to work for us who lived with his free girl… but aside from them, that one other guy I worked with was single and proof that free girls don’t want a man in retail. The gift was clearly widely distributed at my store. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094.md?page=4)