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Pie and Cake
Originally some sort of stupid debate on PenIsMightier and JimbosWorld, I took the "have your cake and eat it too" metaphor a step further in one of my "Stupid Relationship Tricks" rants. "[I]f you'd played your cards right, you could have your cake, eat it, and find some goddamned pie to go along with it... why do you hate pie so much?" So yeah obviously "cake" is relationship quality and "pie" is hookup quality.

Good Ladder and Friends Ladder
I discovered Ladder Theory about a year ago, and incorporated the phraseology into my relationship conversations. Basically I would just rank guys according to where on the "good ladder" they fell. Hence the sentence, "He's basically top-rung material," or "Well he's on the good ladder, but only if I were drunk," or "after Thursday he slid way up the good ladder."

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

When I got back into the Dating Game, Steve warned me that I couldn't assume that the boys I was dating weren't dating other people. Although you can occasionally tell these things, like when they talk to you into the wee hours of the night, every night. Some of the boys actually volunteered the information, some of them didn't. Having gone both ways, I prefer to play it like gays in the military now. Some may claim this is "game-playing," but I've noticed that if you define rules too early on, lots of people don't want to bother. To paraphrase Madeline Kahn, "Complete honesty in relationships is as improbable as sex after marriage."



Huh, this article about "quiet dating" is kind of interesting. They just need to carry on the concept to job interviews, I think.

Date: 2003-11-19 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eyelid.livejournal.com
I don't know about the ladders. That guy is clearly misogynistic.

Date: 2003-11-19 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
in informal polls over the past year, every single guy, without exception, has perhaps said "this guy is misogynistic" but definitely said "that's true, I do want to sleep with every woman."

Date: 2003-11-19 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harryh.livejournal.com
don't forget the qualifying "if I could without horrible social repercussions."

Date: 2003-11-19 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
well what I hear is "if I was drunk and horny enough and I wouldn't have to admit to it later..."

Date: 2003-11-19 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eyelid.livejournal.com
"that's true, I do want to sleep with every woman."

None of my male friends do. My husband would look at you like you're crazy. He doesn't even know those women. Don't take my word for it; ask him yourself.

As for your friends... I seriously doubt they want to sleep with EVERY woman. I bet I could find many women they didn't want to sleep with.

And while many people would prefer that their SOs have money, I really doubt it's a woman thing. I'd like the guy to find a man who wouldn't prefer that his woman had money.

Date: 2003-11-19 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] verybadlady.livejournal.com
1. like the new icon
2. ERIN was being stupid yesterday, not me i swear. I'm sooo cool. Especially while drunk. hah.

Date: 2003-11-19 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
i totally have the best icons (http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=herbaliser) now

Date: 2003-11-20 06:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pamc.livejournal.com
Covet!!!

btw

Date: 2003-11-19 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com
i got most of them here (http://www.evilkid.com/pages/icons.html)

Date: 2003-11-20 08:58 am (UTC)

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