Angcuru said:
Actually, I treat everyone cordially the first encounter, and judge them from that point on. I only give as good as I get. If I get treated well, they get treaded well, and vice versa.
You're entitled to think that way of yourself it it makes you feel better. I, however, am judging you by your posts. I don't have any personal grudge against you -- I've seen you make some great game-related points -- but your word choices cause you to come across as rude and misogynistic. I have no idea what you're like in real life -- and since I'm nowhere near New Jersey, it's not likely that I ever will have such an idea. So please, don't take this as an attack upon your real-life activities, whatever they are. All I've got to go on is your writing.
This is only taking into account my experience so far.
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply by this statement. Are you stepping back from some of your earlier comments, which you'd addressed by implication as fact and not your lone opinion, based on seventeen years holed up in your bedroom? Or are you asking us to go easy on you? Or what?
For most of my life I've been treated as almost sub-human by my so-called 'peers', simply because I took the intellectual route...
Wait... you mean.... you're a gamer?
On this board, that's not really a differentiating life story that gets you special kid-glove treatment when you make a specious statement.
Okay, that's not fair -- you did follow it up with you saying that you know it's not rare. But still... why bring it up? Pretty much all of us grew up as gamer geeks of one variety or another.
Currently I'm 17 year old high school senior from central-north New Jersey, and most of my experience relfects what I say.
It reflects the fact that you're 17 years old and haven't dated much, sure. Total agreement on that one.
...a significant portion(I again say, NOT ALL) have let it go to their heads, developed superiority syndromes, and taken on the b*tch attitude, so to speak.
Many young teenage men (I again say, NOT ALL) develop persecution complexes and try to get points for moody whiny angst while being too much of a sissy to make any move on a girl except a desperate headlong rush that serves no other purpose than to drive the targeted woman away with a shudder, thus subconsciously reinforcing the male's worldview that women are evil and insensitive and that he DID try, it was really the woman's fault, thereby allowing him to keep his protective privacy under the guise of romantic perfectionism instead of having to actually grow and learn through a real relationship.
And you know who I was talking about there, Angcuru?
Dang straight. Yes I was. That was me. All me, dude. I was that whiny little dude talking about commitment while keeping this one poor girl up on a pedestal and worshipping her from afar and basically pissing her off. I first thought she was a goddess. When she failed to realize how complete and utter and true and perfect my love was, I decided that she was a stuck-up snob who was just into the "in-crowd". Looking back on it, we were both kids, and we were both using our primitive defensive mechanisms as best we could. Having this big impossible-to-succeed crush on her was a great way for me to avoid having a real relationship until my subconscious was ready for it.
So go for it. Do what you gotta do to get through it.
I take offense to you trying to portray me as an insecure woman-hater who takes the actions of the few to reflect the actions of the many. You come off as "higher-than-thou", and that doesn't help your argument.
You'd be surprised at what helps my arguments.
As for my attempt to portray you as a woman-hater... well, I had to delete three misogynistic words while quoting you. Do the math. If you don't want to be considered a racist, don't use the N-word. If you don't want to be considered a homophobe, don't use the (other) F-word. If you don't want to be considered a misogynist, don't use the b-word or the s-word -- both of which you did.
-Tacky
