osf -> RE: why do some women feel that being hard to handle.......... (1/5/2010 5:00:41 AM)
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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss Hello Icarys and osf, When did "being bratty" come to equal "Hard to handle"? Hmmmm? Hard to handle to me means a woman who doesn't just fall down saying "Oh yes, grand poopah brilliant one... You are soooooooo smart and soooooooo wise, and I am nothing without you. Lead me." Bullshit. I'm hard work. Why am I work? Because I want to anticipate the needs of the man I am with. I want to please him. I am work because I am not an automaton who has no thoughts of my own but I do want to find a way to mesh what I know to be true and his own views. (and yes, there really are things that I know to be true). I'm hard to handle because I want to be able to understand the way he thinks. Therefore, I need to know him, experience him in a vast number of situations, discussions, arguments even, and to trust him. That makes me hard to handle. This does not mean I am mean spirited, defiant or bratty. It means I am a woman with a strong personality and a certain level of intellect. Some men can't meet up with that kind of pressure because I run circles around them. I don't want to be with a man that is three steps behind me, and I've already thought up all the possible scenarios in a situation and he hasn't even realized there is a situation. That makes me hard to handle. And by the way, I'm also the one you want to totally have your back because I have ... you know.... a backbone of my own! There is a difference between CHOOSING to NOT handle a spirited woman and NOT BEING CAPABLE of handling her. People who would classify me as too hard to handle are not capable of handling me. That is about intelligence. There are other people who look at me and decide I'm not their particular FLAVOR of hard to handle. Those people choose not to handle me. That is compatibility. And gentlemen, you know as well as I do that your bitchy, elbow rubbing, locker room attempts at insulting me are nothing short of immature. You have shown quite a lot about the type of men you are. Icarys, I'm very disappointed to see this in you. Best, sunshine you obviously missed my post differentiating bratty from playful bratty to me denotes willful behavior meant to provoke, but then there are a lot like that that turn it into a power struggle, the you gotta conquer me syndrome
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