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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 968618" data-attributes="member: 8704">Man, I completly agree with Kahuna Burger, that in and of itself sort of scares me. But I do agree with her interpretation of what was said. Anytime you say "Men think this way" or "Women think this way" then you are wrong, everybody thinks about things differently, there is no universal truth or all encompasing answer to any question on how 6,301,586,713* people think. * <a href="http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw" target="_blank">http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw</a>Your presentation of the question seems to be based around the person being rescued being a total helpless victim who lacks the physical strength to defend himself, where does physical strength=effectual come into this. Hulk Hogan is a huge man but he would be pretty ineffectual in hand to hand combat with a tank, but a 80 pound chemo patient with a remote control missle launcher would have a pretty good chance at beating the tank. The Nurse-Patient thing was brought up in this thread too and it is a prime example of this. By your own statement women want to nurture, falling in love with a person who can't take care of himself seems to be a extension of this.Now to apply this to the actual question asked. The style of the books in question always ends up that the person rescued is A. extremely beautiful and B: a perfect match for the hero. The question you should be asking is: "Would a woman hate her perfect idea of a romantic partner if she had to rescue him?" Would the fact that he isn't wind up Bruce Lee on a stick take away from the fact that they are perfect for each other in every other way? The only thing implied here is the guy was "somewhat ineffectual" at rescuing himself. Nowhere did it say he was a 70 pound weakling, or that he was ugly, or that he was untalented, or completly inept. He could be the best looking being in the galaxy who just couldn't beat a lazer wielding army of mutant warriors, or he could of gotten shot in the leg and is not able to escape on his own anymore, maybe he is the chief of a less advanced tribe whose spear tossing warriors are somewhat ineffectual against a science fiction based martian army. There are dozens of ways to interpret this that doesn't involve the male being a completly inept victim in life.</blockquote>

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