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Men are more lovelorn than women, according to their Google habits
By Virginia SmithFebruary 8th, 2012, 8:00 pmComments (21)
To the surprise of embittered sassy single women everywhere, new data from Google indicates that men are actually more desperate eager to find love than they are. Wait, so single men, who everyone knows are cruel, heartless, and interested in sex and sex alone, supposedly want love? How could this be?
According to Google, the search "places to meet women" in New York City is fifty-five percent more popular than "places to meet men," which could either mean that urban single men are actually lonelier than the ladies, or that men and women just use the internet differently. Then again, it could also mean men are finding out about this mysterious "woman paying for Valentine's Day" rule that Martha Stewart has been pushing.
Meanwhile, searches nationwide for "single Valentine's day" have gone up 145% since 2005, and in the past month have climbed by 1500%. It's unclear if this plummet in American romance is attributable to the recession, the residual effects of the movie Valentine's Day, or the sharp increase in sightings of Newt Gingrich's terminally libido-killing jowls, but this has to come to an end! Whether it's standing outside your object of affection's house with a boombox over your head or obsessively calling, emailing, and texting until they finally agree to love you, let's all agree to finally make our romantic dreams come true this Valentine's Day.
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I sometimes kid myself into thinking I want a relationship. Then after I bang a girl after the first or second date, I wanna move on.
i wish i could say i didn't know what you mean. when i was in college i must have looked like a puppy to women. a cute, naive plaything who just wanted to love and be loved. which more often got interpreted as weakness, and so i got trampled. once you have been trampled enough you grow all these additional layers of protection. i am saddened that the majority of women are finding their role models on "Desperate Housewives" and "Jersey Shore." my primary disappointment with myself is my attraction to some of these women and their danger. many of the psychos are fantasticly sexual. and i'm no slouch. i need a near-psycho with monogamist tendencies. oh women. oh men. oh everybody. humans are hilarious.
'fantastically'? 'fantasticly'? spellczech is ruining my spelling.
What the hell?
So googling "places to meet women" means that a man wants a committed relationship?
Right. Total non-sequitur
around 76% of all suicides in the U.S. are male....go figure
Women lead men 2 to 1 in suicide attempts.
That's just becuase the "attempt" is just a deperate ploy for attention. It is not difficult to actually kill yourself, however they just don't know any other way to get attention and seek out less risky ways of pulling the trigger.
Men know how to get shit done! *burp, shotgun blast to own face*
Hmm . . . I was sure that this article was going to have something to do with internet porn-watching habits.
what about the phrase "placing your meat in women". Where did that rank?
How did they control for women seeking women? This says little to nothing significant or revelatory.
Non sequitur indeed. Or at least a bogus conclusion. The author has apparently ignored the fact that women are (all too often) the passive ones when it comes to meeting men. Show up; wait to be approached. If they are feeling "bold", they throw a few "subtle hints", most of which are meaningless, or lost entirely on men. New paradigm, ladies. You want equality? It comes with responsibility, and sometimes action, and changing your behavior. Men have been accommodating a lot of change in the past 30+ years, isn't it time for more of you to step up and do your share? Everyone will be happier if you do.
i agree. i'd also like to add, and this will win me no fans, that i think women need to work on who they are. maybe i just meet too many superficial gals, but nothing says 'short term' like more attention paid to fashion, mainstream conformist culture (and its evil twin - elitist so-called alternative culture) and terrible pop music than on developing some form of unique interests of your own. i've got a pretty rich internal world that i love sharing. women who reduce themselves to pure objects will have trouble attracting or keeping a man with a lot going on emotionally/intellectually/physically. "Non-conformity is not the adoption of a pre-existing alternative culture." BE YOUR OWN PERSON & BE WICKEDLY LOVING. mr. man is here to help the world, even when you don't want to hear me. referring to yourself in the third person is fun in limited doses.
There are women out there who think sometimes, and aren't interested in most of "mainstream culture" (I think), whatever that is. I've never seen an episode of either "Desperate Housewives" or "Jersey Shore", to reference your previous post. Although I do agree with your point that women, especially, seem to be... not as intellectually curious as they maybe once were, we're not all like that. (I will say that I wouldn't really know what falls into your categories of "mainstream culture" and "alternative culture". I just, well... like what I like.)
Oh, some thinking women even have libidos, too. We're not unicorns, I swear.
good for you...i hate dealing with sheeple like that..to all of you women out there who aren't socially engineered sucklings of the mainstream sewar pipe of the media-you do well....
So...most of these comments are meant as a terrible joke right? Like Cpt. Douchnozzle, Cpt. Obvious, and mr. man are all the same method actor or author working on a a bitter, lonely, misogynistic character with an extremely low IQ? I hope this is the case. Perhaps I've just been spoiled by the Nerve comment section, which doesn't attract these kinds of weirdos nearly as often as most websites.
"here are women out there who think sometimes" Sometimes? The majority of students obtaining their masters and PhDs are women. I'm guessing these men are looking in the wrong places.
"i think women need to work on who they are. "
Well, I think men need to work on who they are. There you go, a little misandry to counteract the misogyny.
Seriously, you met a handful of women who were not compatible with you. That doesn't mean there is something wrong with them. That doesn't mean they are representative of all women.
Men shouldn't be hurting on women-true story but misandry seems to be the "in thing" nowadays.No one is good enough for alot of you.Isee women on a daily basis verbally beat the crap out of guys on their income,their looks and even their d__k size .Don't you think this is hurtful to the guys? We know the media treats women poorly and that sucks but why do some of you take your frustrations out on men..? Especially those who do not deserve it.
Um, from what I can tell, WOMEN are the ones who are cruel and heartless when it comes to relationships. Yeah it's all lovey dovey and caring and cuddling to start, but after while you start to see the real side, then they leave you for someone with a bigger bank account.