Do Men Really Love B*tches?
Advice from three of EMandLO.com's guy friends. This week they answer the following: Do men really love b*tches?
Straight Single Guy (Colin): Guys love a challenge. That's why we're always trying to fix cars, throw the perfect spiral, or look cool with really awful facial hair. If we're ever with a b*tch, it's only because we want to overcome her militant manner and make her swoon for us. We want to find her soft spot and turn her around to show the world she's not all bad - that way we look great, too, for having cracked her stone cold exterior. Don't feel like playing the B-Card is ever going to help you out, though. Most of us tire of silly games like this pretty quickly - and even if we do love b*tches from time to time, the good ol' American sweetheart will always win out.
Straight Married Guy (Matt): I don't think so. Maybe some guys like getting treated like s--- and pushed around, but that was never my thing. I mean, if a girl is attractive and a real b*tch, in my single days, I'd probably have wanted to have sex with her. But that's just because there's this idea that the sex would be more charged. Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't. I don't think b*tchiness equals hot sex on its own. But beyond sex: dating (or falling in love with) a b*tch? Forget it. Life's dramatic enough on its own - I don't need to fall in love with a pain in the ass.
Gay Committed Guy (Terence): That's a big can of worms. I might be old-fashioned, but I'm having trouble typing the word b*tch. When did this word become commonplace, or even acceptable? As I'm trying to think of how to characterize a b****, I can only think of that show Bridezillas. So let's use the terms girlzilla and boyzilla instead. I think a man who claims to love a girlzilla has as many issues to work through as the girlzilla. His willingness to accommodate a difficult and unpleasant woman is saddening and self-destructive. In fact, it's a mutually destructive cycle of immaturity that wouldn't know love from a can of worms (I had to squeeze in my worm metaphor one more time). There ain't no love for a zilla.
EMandLO.com's "wise guys" are a rotating group of contributors, some of whom wish to remain anonymous and some of whom like the attention. Colin Adamo is an undergrad at Yale University where he directs the biennial Sex Week at Yale; the other two are a little shy.
