I hate when people make comments that they think are compliments but actually come out as an insult.
I was out at a bar on Friday with a couple friends and the conversation naturally turned to love, sex, etc and in the middle of my friend's drunken tirade on what he wants out of a woman he says something like "She has to be like Wendy - she's has to be able to read and be passionate - Now of course I would never sleep with you Wendy - (he winks)..we're just reading buddies". Awesome. Thanks. Was that necessary.
How bout you go fuck yourself. Now this is coming from a certain someone who I have turned down on more than one occasion and after our vacation to a certain Latin American country it became a very certain fact that we could never be anything but great friends.
Whats the point of inserting these tiny little tidbits into conversation - especially when its around a group of other people. Is that weird that it makes me feel rejected despite the fact that I have no desire to sleep with this person?
-As an FYI- I am at work. Again. Blasting music off of Pandora. Dire Straits kick ass.
I just got this text from my boss
Boss : O told me she likes your music --- (one of our CEO's was in the office)
Me : haha, really?
Boss : No. She said it sucked and that is why she left.
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i went to a gallery opening with three beautiful curly haired ladies (long-haired F & X) (short-haired S). now, i had just gotten a terrible haircut that i've bemoaning for days. besides, in contrast to my friends' spiral tresses, my hair is as pin fucking straight as you could possibly imagine.
anyway, we are drinking some blush wine and gossiping intently amongst ourselves in a corner, eyes never straying outside our circle (thereby indicating our lack of interest in conversing with anyone else). a toolish man in his 30s suddenly interrupts a story that F is telling and says:
Man: " OMG so sorry for interrupting! I just saw your beautiful hair and i noticed that all of you have such stunning hair!"
First I saw yours [looks at F], beautiful... then I saw yours [looks at X) and I thought WOW - all you girls have unbelievable hair...! your hair is beautiful too [looks at S with her short curly hair].. and..." [looks at me]
Me: [i watch him intently, fully aware of my particularily bad hair day, curious to see, from the moment this annoying man opened his mouth with his initial compliment, how he'd handle it] "not so much, eh?" [say i, to kill, or propel the portending awkwardness]
Man: yea... eh.
ouch.
you make me curious as to the idents of your other companions, strangepear.
i think, actually, this annoying habit that men have is caused by a combination of two things: confidence in proffering opinions un-asked for, and their comfort in critiquing women's sexual favorability.
(women can give backhanded compliments also, of course, but maybe for a different reason.)
Also, in Wendy's case, I can confidently say that she seems to surround herself with men who need to convince others that women actually want to sleep with them.
True
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