Quote: (10-05-2010 04:48 AM)zanetti Wrote:
it always seemed to me that being shit with girls is more a symptom of a whole load of other issues: depression, self-loathing, being in a dead-end job or workaholic in high stress job
This is true to some degree-- if you're just ebullient, rich, gorgeous, really bright-- AND socially proofed, you'll tend to be a chick magnet.
But to some degree there's an issue of basic genetic adaptational fit.
I.E., the healthiest, most genetically perfect palm tree in the world cannot even survive in Alaska.
Many Americans are from cultures/ gene pools/parents which produce people who just aren't that fitted to hypermodern American "life."
I know my own shy, trusting, bookish temperament makes me a virtual idiot relative to the cowboy mentality admired here. I mean, what would you infer the social ideal to be in a country that elected W for president?
I'm sort of the polar opposite of a guy like that.