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Old 31-03-06, 04:43 AM
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Originally Posted by vashti
OK let's use a sports analogy. Let's say you love basketball, and your girlfriend likes it, too. You are very good at it, but she isn't. She insists that you allow her to play with you, so you let her, but you know she sucks, and you know you'd have a hell of a lot more fun playing with people who were more talented and knew how to play the game.

Are you really trying to say that you should forever be stuck playing B-ball with her just because she wants to? I think not.

If the original poster has other issues about trust with his girl, then by all means he should pay attention to that. However, simply dancing with other people is not a criminal act, and if her behavior is limited to wanting to dance with people who know how to, I don't see a problem. You guys don't own your girlfriends, you know.The way she does/does not treat him is a separate matter, which he didn't ask for advice about. He wanted to know about the dancing, which is what I am addressing.



Skatechild - since you are apparently unaware of what feminism means, I am providing you with the dictionary definition: Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. So am I a feminist? Damn right I am (although admittedly, I am far from an extremist). Which part of that definition do you take exception to?




I understand why you're making that analogy, but the issue here isn't the fact that she doesn't want to dance with him (because she's a good dancer and he's not, or whatever), but the MANNER in which she went about communicating this to him.

If my girlfriend wanted to play basketball with me and some friends, and I took the ball from her and said "no way, you suck", then proceded to ask some other girls to play on my team, you can bet your ass I probably wouldn't be her boyfriend much longer.
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