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Suleiman -> RE: It's A Shame You Aren't.... (1/28/2005 1:43:04 PM)
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Yes, welcome Mariposa. Feel free to pull up a couch and stay a while.
Turning to the slightly off topic topic, I'll admit, I do occasionally use "child" "young man" or "young lady", but generally only in an established relationship, unless the person is acting in an immature fashion. I've never understood "subbie", and I consider "little one" either too personal, or else not personal enough. While I do use "my dear" or "darling" in emails to people I don't know very well, so long as the conversation has turned casual, I would never be so gauche as to use a familiar form of address with a person I had contacted for the first time.
Then again, I actually read profiles and even journals prior to Emailing a person on this site, if only to find some basis for conversation other than various conjugations of my ugly bits to theirs.
I suppose this does actually tie in to the main topic at hand, insofar as it is an extension of much the same mentality. It is a truism that if you simply make the offer often enough, it will eventually be answered. Of course, in an online situation, if a person claims to be a lesbian and then answers a vulgar Email from a guy in a friendly manner, most often it's another guy on the other end of the modem, but hey - they both walk away with spank material, so I guess it's an equitable exchange.
Of course, I keep pondering the recurring admonition, "I'm real, you be real too" (typically not spelled in whole english, but that's a different rant alltogether), and I find myself wondering, "what the hell do you think I am, a hologram"?
I suppose that this simply proves that, for everybody, there's somebody. As repugnant as the HNGs are, they must be getting some kind of results, or else they wouldn't be such a pernicious problem. If, on the other hand, you have actual criteria, the search does become a bit more laborious. Certianly, in my own case, when I have uttered the heartfelt "it's a shame you arent ____", it is as much a commentary on the difficulty of finding the right person for my own needs, and an acknowledgement that, aside from that one trait, the person I had so addressed was in fact a sterling example of the sort of person I would like to be involved with. In that manner of useage, I suppose it does in fact qualify as a compliment from that person's perspective.
Okay, I'm starting to get maudlin. I should probably log off now.
~S
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