tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254476456281014523.post7402689289360411047..comments2012-09-29T22:45:49.255-06:00Comments on The Adventures of a Snowball in Hell: Creepy or just the age he's at?Snowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16346487531202793595noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254476456281014523.post-38914649585852948582012-02-27T09:10:06.067-07:002012-02-27T09:10:06.067-07:00me, i've stalked, i've been stalked, one i...me, i've stalked, i've been stalked, one is excruciatingly fun but existentially problematic, the other flattering but creepy. for me the game came to its final end when someone said: you are an embarrassment.<br /><br />as for what girls want, let's talk about what boys want. my son, a propos wtf, told me that technically he's been raped if you count both the age thing and oral sex... oh, i said, thinking, goddamn it, he's surpassing every high school mark i ever set.<br /><br />in the same conversation he sought my advice re fucking a girl who was willing but widely known as a slut. my take: your friends will give you shit but deep down be jealous; among girls his stock would take a beating as word got around. the sex doubtless would be instructive, but the eye contact avoidance thing in the main hall forever would get old in a hurry.<br /><br />i could see the gears turn in his head as he plotted the cost-benefit: such realism, lord knows whence it comes. forego the easy sex in the near-term, work on building the rep with the good-girl power structure.<br /><br />me, everything i ever need to know about women was at the hands (etc) of one regionally prominent bad-girl nymphomaniac, ah, the summer of becky, to this day the phrase evokes not a single regret. what young men eventually learn is that the all-powerful regime of popular girls ain't nothing but a paper tiger: as high school fades in the rearview and everyone moves on to far-flung jobs, addictions and disappointing relationships, one light dawns universally: nobody cares w/whom you're sleeping, excepting those who do care, old people, unhappy people, inconsequential shut-ins, loners, church-goers, perhaps a few oddball stalkers, always last to get the news.orionoirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06555329243024999493noreply@blogger.com