pinnipedster
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus You're FEN! Why didn't you say so? I could have come out and told you that you are totally screwed! (sarcasm! w000t!) Is that screwed in a bad way, or a good way? :) quote:
I am not sure how to develop social skills in a person long distance, I have a hard enough time teaching the locals. How about this: just go out and meet PEOPLE, regardless of gender or orientation. So what if they are attached? They probably know folks that aren't. Talk to people that you want to talk to. Smile pretty. Say hello. Can't hurt! I should note that one of my other experiences amongst fandom is that women therein do not make any effort to fix up their guy friends with other available women. I have a couple of explanations for this. One is simply that, being fans themselves, they hardly know any available women -- and anyway, most of the women in fandom I know have more guy friends than girl friends. Another, I once hesitantly mentioned to a (female) therapist I was seeing. I mentioned it tentatively, almost apologetically, because I thought it might sound paranoid or sexist. That was that some of the women I know in fandom don't really like having their guy friends get hooked up. They like having a circle of available male friends they can do stuff with, and when said males find girlfriends, they become less available (perhaps completely unavailable, if the girlfirend is demanding or jealous). So to a point they almost discourage their male friends from dating. As I say, I mentioned this to the therapist reluctantly, but as soon as she saw what I was driving at, she said, "Oh, no, you're exactly right. Women are terrible!" ...which kind of floored me at the time... When I say I don't have social skills, btw, I don't mean that I'm actively unpleasant or uncomfortable to be around; I just mean that I'm very bad at meeting people, never know quite what to say, and never have figured out how you go about turning acquaintanceship into friendship, let alone moving it from their into a relationship. Almost all my friends have been made very gradually, through other friends; and the few relationships and flings I have had have mostly occurred when the woman decided to take the initiative -- something which last happened sometime in the late 1980's. As I've mentioned before, one of my hopes for getting into the FemDom scene was that women into it would be more likely to take the initiative as far as forming relationships -- but I'm told that burden still falls almost exclusively with the man. Dammit.
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