Mike Mennonno takes a look at this skewering of a T-based Missed Connections ad and wonders:
Do young women really view all potential suitors as possible sex offenders, or is this mostly a Davis Square thing?
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Naw
By mariav
Thu, 08/09/2007 - 4:09pm
It's just a college-aged-girl thing. At that age, and in that environment, everyone's oversexed.
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I, personally, would be
By Miss M
Thu, 08/09/2007 - 6:55pm
I, personally, would be very, very skeptical of a guy who tried to convince me to leave my friends and go off alone with him thirty seconds after we met. He couldn't have just asked for her number? Going by that Missed Connection, he didn't even get her name. Sketchy.
(And I'm 29 and married so, you know, well past the oversexed stage.)
agreed - if he said he'd
By Lyss
Thu, 08/09/2007 - 9:40pm
agreed - if he said he'd like to do it some other time and wasn't so pushy about getting coffee RIGHT NOW, she might've even given the guy her name. If a girl doesn't give you her name, it means she doesn't want you to know it. For a reason.
Right Now! Must!
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 08/09/2007 - 10:06pm
Guys who give orders to women who don't know them are spooky asshats and this dude is clearly up there in the stalkerville social whirl if he now feels he has to retaliate/shame this woman.
Ewwwwwwww! Massive stay away.
it does give off vibes
By lynn
Thu, 08/09/2007 - 9:14pm
of the 'I'm a scary, pushy individual' variety (not understanding why a girl wouldn't go off alone with a stranger for even 30 minutes part). Add in some 'I'll make fun of you and call you names for not doing what I want you to' (the email me, loser part) and it makes for one icky posting.
oh, I'm 29, divorced and in an LTR. :)
When I was about 24, I was
By BR
Fri, 08/10/2007 - 12:28pm
When I was about 24, I was catching a late train home from the bar on the red line. My destination was my then-home, Central Square, and I admit it, I was pretty buzzed. This guy started talking to me on the train and wouldn't leave me alone despite numerous attempts at polite brush offs. When I went to get off, he followed me, saying that he "loved Central Square" and we should get a drink. I tried to put him off again, but he wasn't getting the hint and he was creeping me out too much to outright tell him to go f*ck himself. So I did the only thing I could do, which was to say we should go into The Field. Then I said I had to use the bathroom and snuck out the back way and RAN home.
I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but I was alone, somewhat intoxicated, and it was late at night. Following girls around or trying to bother them into going somewhere with you doesn't work. Face it, the train or on the street? Not good places to meet a girl without her skeeve alarm going off. If you're honestly interested, give her YOUR number and let her get where she's going. If she really is as interested as you think, she'll call you.
BR gets BINGO!
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 08/10/2007 - 2:11pm
Uh huh. The entitlement just reeks from this guy. He's also a control creep if he couldn't just give her HIS number and wait.
He acts like he deserves a prize because he didn't just flat out attack her. "Hey! I'm a nice guy! Where's my Booty! Hey - you can't leave with MY booty! No fair! That's MY booty! Come back or I will mallign and abuse you! Hey!"