# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/121 "2012-03-29T20:31:57Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Hugs not drugs! For some of us, they cost the same. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/122 "2012-03-29T20:38:48Z")
> [@fjs1fs](#): > > Now you’re gonna kick me off the Dope? LOL If you can’t comprehend the difference between “you probably don’t belong here” and “I’m kicking you out” and/or if you use the word “LOL”, well… ---
**Author:** ![BangBang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@BangBang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BangBang)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/123 "2012-03-29T20:59:08Z")
Now now, no infighting! Back to the OP- while I’m pretty sure he’s a bridge dweller, I also think he’s somehow channelling one of my ex-boyfriends. A man so lazy and deluded that he only read the first two chapters of “The Celestine Prophecy” and deduced from that that the universe would provide. He spent the next 10 years living in a shed on the back of his parents property, smoking pot, watching TV and waiting for a supermodel/heiress/lawyer to come knocking on his door. As far as I know he’s still there… Is that you, Steve? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/124 "2012-03-29T21:07:00Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > **Yakuza** , you, too, bear some responsibility. If you’d like to be a member of the community here, you need to lay off posting about yourself and your rather unconventional method of approaching life and relationships. As you can see, it raises some questions as to your sincerity. > > This thread will remain open, but confine your remarks on this topic to this thread and don’t open any others. And look around and comment on other topics too. > > Ellen Cherry > SDMB Moderator **Ellen Cherry** , cut the dude some slack! Can’t u see that Mr. **Yakuza** ’s unconventional contributions 2 this board have attracted great interest here, judging by the length and on-goingness of his several threads? (Especially the one about escorts, right up there (well, almost) with **Polar Bear**!) Mr. Yakuza is fast becoming a favorite character here. Just as Alfred P. Doolittle became famously sought-after 4 his philosophies[sup]\*[/sup], likewise we breathlessly await each new nugget of Mr. Yakuza’s life wisdom. He is unlike the rest of us highbrow well-bred elite here, an independent and free-thinking spirit, and his lessons 4 us all are clearly being received with interest. And 4 this u now tell him 2 put a cork in it? [sub]( \* For you young’uns here, Alfred P. Doolittle was Eliza’s father in _My Fair Lady._ )[/sub] If so, it just goes 2 make this board all the more homogeneous and boring, just like when u mods axed **Diogenes the Cynic**. Remember all the flak over that, because obnoxious as he was, he was an interesting character. Same here. And furthermore, u would only prove 2 Mr. Yakuza 1nce again that all females will reject him every time. And BTW, he did post a comment yesterday in **Infovore** ’s thread, the one about that _Cracked_ article: > [@Straight male Dopers: What do you think of this article?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-male-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-this-article/617076/25): > > I definitely don’t have a problem with women who easily give sex. I have a low income so those kind of women are a saving grace ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/125 "2012-03-29T21:13:02Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > I been knowing about internet escorts, its just that I could not find any in Arkansas. Other states, especially Nevada, were the only ones who I knew had them. I wanted 2 try an escort service but I was worried that they would send me a girl that I didn’t want. Then one day I found [backpage.com](http://backpage.com), I picked the girl I wanted and from then on I’ve been happy with life ever since If you are happy with life, why do you feel the need to keep starting threads on here where you are met with almost universal derision? I know if I was delighted with life and I knew of a forum where everyone was nasty to me every single time I started a thread, I’d not really see the appeal of keeping coming back for more scorn. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/126 "2012-03-29T21:22:37Z")
Oh, BTW Mr. **Yakuza** , about **Polar Bear** , who I mentioned just above . . . Have u seen his thread, about how he get his ladies? It’s here: [Ask the IceBear](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=625497) U really should read it, if u haven’t already. It will definitely give u a glimpse of a better life that u can aspire 2 and look forward 2 having 4 yourself, once u start moving up in management and u have more money. (U have 2 go 2 Germany for that, though. They just don’t have that in Arkansas.) Check it out! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/127 "2012-03-29T21:27:46Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > If you are happy with life, why do you feel the need to keep starting threads on here where you are met with almost universal derision? > > I know if I was delighted with life and I knew of a forum where everyone was nasty to me every single time I started a thread, I’d not really see the appeal of keeping coming back for more scorn. Because his contributions are so _intellectually stimulating and thought-and-discussion-provoking._ Do you not agree that he offers us a _unique_ outlook and point-of-view? See my remarks just 3 posts above. ETA: If you had such comments to offer, wouldn’t you be enthusiastic to come here and share with us? ETA: Mr. **Yakuza** , ignore the scorn-mongers! Tell us more about your life! Do you get much shit from the police? How many encounters do you have with your escorts per month for that $400 you spend? Do you use protection? ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/128 "2012-03-29T21:31:08Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > If you can’t comprehend the difference between “you probably don’t belong here” and “I’m kicking you out” and/or if you use the word “LOL”, well… Sorry, I guess I should explain. LOL is an abbreviation for “Laughing Out Loud,” which indicated that I was joking that you were “kicking me out.” Hopefully you get that. Since you so obviously _“belong”_ on The Dope, I was assuming that you’d comprehend, but perhaps I overestimated you. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/129 "2012-03-29T21:43:36Z")
> [@fjs1fs](#): > > Sorry, I guess I should explain. LOL is an abbreviation for “Laughing Out Loud,” which indicated that I was joking that you were “kicking me out.” No. You may have been thinking that, but that isn’t what’s indicated. The semiotic value of laughter is not, in fact, necessarily an indicator that someone is being facetious. Within the construction you used, the indication would actually be “[Thing you said], I find that laughable.” Now, you could’ve avoided the sloppiness in your verbiage by writing like an adult. Ya know, like people are expected to do on the Dope. Unless of course you feel like writing like the OP, whose near universally negative reception you still have yet to grok. ---
**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, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/130 "2012-03-29T21:47:23Z")
**Senegoid** … Not sure if you were being serious or not, but your response to **Ellen Cherry** was vastly amusing. Please keep up your contributions to this thread, oh kindly sir! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/131 "2012-03-29T21:55:22Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > This thread will remain open, but confine your remarks on this topic to this thread and don’t open any others. And look around and comment on other topics too. > > Ellen Cherry > SDMB Moderator Oh, and BTW, a quick search shows that he has posted in 4 other threads 2, besides his own, and besides the 1 by **Infovore** that I mentioned earlier. 2 of those threads, judging by their titles, look like religious stuff. **Waxwinged** : And I meant it too! **Yakuza** ’s thought are pure gold! Scintillating sparkles of electric feral philosophy in the darkness! I wish I had known of his street-wise life skills 35 years ago, that I might have followed in some of his choices myself! Does this dude have Buddha-nature? \*Well, we may lose and we may win, But we’ll never be here again. So open up, I’m climbing in. And take it easy! Take it easy, take it easy. Don’t let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy! Come on baby! Don’t say maybe! I’ve gotta know if your sweet love Is gonna saaaaaaaaaaave me!\* – “Take It Easy”, The Eagles ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/132 "2012-03-29T22:32:43Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > No, back in the day when I had a place 2 stay, my luck with getting free women finally ran out and I got tired of getting rejected so I decided that its not worth it 2 have a place 2 stay if I can’t have a free girl. So I might as well live in the wilderness so I can have more money for escorts Well, the whole “free girl” thing isn’t exactly a turn on. Seriously, you don’t exactly strike me as Prince Charming. And that has fuck-all to do with your income level. As for him just yanking our chains, I can believe he’s for real – ever read Encylopedia Dramatica sometime? This guy would merit a stub, I’m thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/133 "2012-03-29T22:36:37Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Despite what people think, it’s not because my standards for physical attractiveness are exceptionally high – she just has to be in the top 40% to 30% by my judgment. [Reply: That’s like one in every 3 or 4 women, not a particularly tough or abnormal selection criterion, is it?] You’re assuming ratings of attractiveness are normally distributed, e.g. that 7s through 10s occur as often as 1s through 4s. ---
**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, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/134 "2012-03-29T22:37:21Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > If you are happy with life, why do you feel the need to keep starting threads on here where you are met with almost universal derision? > > I know if I was delighted with life and I knew of a forum where everyone was nasty to me every single time I started a thread, I’d not really see the appeal of keeping coming back for more scorn. Because I once thought that dealing with escorts was sinful and now through my meditation, devoted spiritual practices, and life experiences, I realize its not a sin or evil to have an escort. If my mind was unlocked 2 this truth, maybe I can help other people’s minds be unlocked as well ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/135 "2012-03-30T01:13:33Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > You’re assuming ratings of attractiveness are normally distributed, e.g. that 7s through 10s occur as often as 1s through 4s. Of course attractiveness is normally distributed! That’s the whole point of a 10-point scale - it’s a relative judgment. It’s a guarantee that there are just as many people in the top 20% of attractiveness (which we can call 9s and 10s) as there are in the bottom 20% of attractiveness (which we’ll call 1s and 2s). And to boot, the post you quoted was actually speaking in terms of percentages rather than the 10-point scale, but the argument stands. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/136 "2012-03-30T02:50:48Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > You’re assuming ratings of attractiveness are normally distributed, e.g. that 7s through 10s occur as often as 1s through 4s. Why wouldn’t it follow a bell curve? 1s, out there frightening babies, should be about as rare as 10s who make people walk into lampposts. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/137 "2012-03-30T03:30:09Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > Because I once thought that dealing with escorts was sinful and now through my meditation, devoted spiritual practices, and life experiences, I realize its not a sin or evil to have an escort. And God said, let there be hookers and there were hookers. And God saw the hookers, that it was good, and God divided the hookers from the free girls. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/138 "2012-03-30T05:33:43Z")
This shit is making my brain hurt. I don’t like Yakuza’s writing style much either, he writes like txt-addict. I’m not thrilled about his written descriptions of women, either. Then again …I am involved with a man who appreciates my intelligence and my sexuality, and likes cats! ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/139 "2012-03-30T05:33:54Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > Because I once thought that dealing with escorts was sinful and now through my meditation, devoted spiritual practices, and life experiences, I realize its not a sin or evil to have an escort. If my mind was unlocked 2 this truth, maybe I can help other people’s minds be unlocked as well Yakuza may have a dream of a better world, where a simple zen like approach to life and sex, could thrive and benefit the masses. Stigma surrounding sex addiction, and prostitution could be removed, to make the simple trade a respectable one. People could decide that living off the grid, is a fun and exciting way to go. Wilderness lifestyles may emerge as a first rate choice, growing in popularity with more and more people taking the “Yakuza plunge” to choose fun and enjoyment in life, over boring responsibility. Aware, humble, and honest realizations concerning the human condition, and it’s mediocrity, immaturity, shallowness, and flawed reasoning, could help bring about more self acceptance, and eventually lead to a better state of mental health in the masses. Pride in humble lifestyles, and winning at video games, could possibly help ease the depression in many humans -afflicted by illuminati’s influences and control. Giving up on expectations, and efforts to improve one’s life, may end the stress and demands of running in the competitive rat race, so as to focus more attention on games and sex. The relaxing and having fun part could begin, without fear of being called a bum. The term bum, could come to mean- someone involved in a lovely and relaxing lifestyle- a compliment instead of an insult. Socially acceptable prostitution, could help form more predicable, and less complicated, business first relationships between men and women; to rival any current ideals in place, prioritizing love, trust, and fleeting romance. The Yakuza method, could become very popular, and Yakuza could be looked upon as more of a role model and guru, before he gets into politics, or at least gets his own talk show. ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094/140 "2012-03-30T06:52:08Z")
> [@Yakuza](#): > > Because I once thought that dealing with escorts was sinful and now through my meditation, devoted spiritual practices, and life experiences, I realize its not a sin or evil to have an escort. If my mind was unlocked 2 this truth, maybe I can help other people’s minds be unlocked as well That would nearly be sensible, if everyone on here had said that paying for prostitutes **was** sinful or evil. But no. No one has said that. From what I can see, no one is telling you off because they think you are evil or a sinner. Are you somehow seeing it differently? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-standards-are-not-too-high-for-girls/617094.md?page=8)