If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, nobody else wanted it, why should you? If it doesn't, you're a fool for ever letting it go in the first place.

Women don't want a man they can have. They don't want someone who will love them and treat them with respect. They want someone that would otherwise be out of their leauge. Someone that will dump on them because he can move on to another girl at any time. They want someone to treat them bad, because that means he must be a better catch than a nice guy, who has to be nice (to keep a girl like you). They want someone that I will never be.

And that's suit me fine. The jerks of the world can have the air-heads. They were truly meant for each other. Yet even as I write these words, it pains me to know that this is the way of the world. But this is not something new. Have you never heard, "Marry a pretty girl and she'll treat you like dirt. Marry an ugly girl and she'll treat you like a king"? It's a classic case, the lesser of the two must be nicer. And of course the converse is true: The nicer person must also be the lesser person. I don't know where this philosophy comes from, but it seems to predominate the world I've been living in. It wouldn't be so bad, but I am a nice guy. And I will not be shit upon. And all I'm looking for is a girl with (among other things) enough self-respect and dignity, to not allow herself to be shit upon either.

My roommate and I have gone around in circles over this. I rather blanketly threw out that: girls are dumb. Meaning that they are dumb to put up with the crap a lot of guys give them in relationships, and stay in those relationships. And also for not seeing who these guys are. It's been a plague of mine to always wind up good friends with these players. But the things they say seem to be so obviously phony and trite, with narry a romatic word anywhere. It's as though they skip round one and two of bad pick up lines and move right into rounds 3 and 4. It's just so obvious to me. I'm wondering if it's just that girls don't often let men get passed rounds 1 and 2 of cheap overused lines and so when they hear these new lines they are just so awestruck they don't realize what was just said to them and how lame it was. But alas, I digress.

The argument my roommate put forth was: It's not that all girls are dumb, it's just that girls in love do dumb things. They can't see clearly how someone that they love so dearly could do such mean and *shitty* things.

I say these are women who have never heard the term unrequitted love. It seems to me that when a women falls in love, she assumes that the feeling is mutual. Hello, anybody home? It's not automatic. This is where the player's game enters the picture.

There are several types of players in the world. But the two types that I am familiar with are these. The man who will tell a woman whatever she wants to hear, just to get what he wants. And when the girl believe she is in love... the player will get just what he wants. And the other player, or as my roommate would call him, the true player, tells the girl from square one just where she stands with him... nowhere.