Quote: (08-12-2018 06:57 PM)Vladimir Poontang Wrote:
Old Poontang strikes again with another city beta thread :
http://www.city-data.com/forum/relations...y-not.html
They banned me after 11 pages and 13 posts. But the show goes on, at least for now.
Enjoy.
^^^^^
Very amusing. And now for a completely different perspective.
Age and experience have altered my views about this subject. When you're in your teens and twenties, single mothers are a must to avoid. They're usually the irresponsible party girls who want Alpha Fux/Beta Bux.
But...a funny thing happens on the way to your forties. Child-rearing humbles women. It forces them to confront the real world and think about someone other than themselves. By contrast, spending decades single and childless allows women to become selfish, self-important, and often irresponsible.
Excluding welfare queens, the single (or divorced) mother spends her prime years dealing with schools and teachers, learning to be a neighbor and/or homeowner, being responsible at work, and becoming an integral part of the larger society.
The childless woman, on the other hand, indulges herself with fake tans, endless vacations, too much alcohol, and idiotic "classes" about flaky bullshit. Whereas most single mothers choose men who will be good for their kids, the childless woman dates bad boy after bad boy and has no qualms about completely mistreating everyone else. (And if you think *you're* the bad boy, chances are, she'll already know someone badder and try to emasculate you with that. Whenever you think these women can't get any lower, they find another basement -- to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald.)
As such, the eternally childless woman becomes the center of her own universe, the star in her own soap opera, and the martyr in her own self-made bible. If you meet up with her at 48 (as I just did -- don't ask), it's as if she's still mentally and emotionally 18. That's not pretty. In fact, it's sort of grotesque. But what did we expect?! She never really had to grow up.
The single mother, though, had to grow up -- and fast. At 40 (or even 30), she's likely to have little patience with games or general stupidity. If you're a hardworking, honest man, she'll more than likely treat you respectfully in return. Life forced her to appreciate good things, not take them for granted.
This type of reflexive reciprocity is what makes society work. Without it, we'd have the law of the jungle. This is what a society of single, childless women would lead us to: No one treating anyone good and honest with any respect and everyone sucking the (metaphorical or real) dicks of criminals and troublemakers. This might seems amusing when you're 18 and sort of a badass yourself, but it really doesn't work when you become an actual adult.
So, to wrap this all up, once you hit age 40 or so, it's single mothers or divorced women with kids who are most likely to be decent women. It's the eternally childless wench you'll want to avoid.
I should really write an article expounding on the details of this. At 23, I wouldn't have believed it myself. But since all of you will be older someday, keep this in the back of your mind.
This forum is now ten years old, and I think it's time we step back and try to get a wider-screen view on some subjects we've long discussed. So, while Vladimir might be right to call out single mothers from his perspective, we need to acknowledge there are other points-of-view from men with other experiences.