Good, for you. I think there might be a few men in this world that want a woman that is strong and independent. The problem is, does the strong and independent woman want him?
It's a crazy world we live in drbill. I am just as disenchanted with the SoCal culture as you. But I was born and raised there and what really bothers me is when men move to the O.C. or the desert form their home town and state to MINE and then complain about the way "all us SoCal Woman are!" 1) I am not like "THEM" and 2) Half of "THEM" are women that got tired of kicking bullshit in Minnesota, moved to Hollywood, got a boob job and is looking for Mr. Sugar daddy! It's OTHER STATES woman that are like that- not natives, except for the spoiled little upper class "DADDY'S GIRLS" that teach their daughters to be that way. If you want to blame someone, blame every dad that spoiled his little girl. Most of them turn out to be Veruca Salts or Violet Beauregarde.
And I know this well because UCSB was/is flooded with O.C. brats!
NOW, how to tell if someone likes you?
If (in my case the guy) isn't a sick jerk, then when he continues to sms you and call you and invited you to meet his friends and really "acts" like he's interested in more than a one-night-stand because he continued to pursue for a year, you should be able to ASSUME that person is interested. But if he's a sick bastard, well, then, like in my case, you just really, really get your head screwed with and your heart broken and you stop running and feed the depression with chocolate and wine until you gain two stone!!!!
On yeah, it was how to tell? I couldn't tell ya, I've been the victim of "long-term fake interested signs!" 
Ah but for that to happen...women to release themselves from the stereotypes that society has bound them too...or that men have chained them too...then advertising execs must stop using women to sell things aka billboards full of EVERY ad in the world showing a beautiful women on it and then MEN should stop responding to these ads. If that were to happen then women would no longer be chained to this stereotype. You can't be slave to something if people(men) will no longer propogate it and reinforce it and encourage it and well demand it.
Based on occasional perusals of some ladies' magazines (I have three sisters) and billboards (we have none here thank goodness), it appears that advertising execs use Ken dolls to sell products to women just as they use Barbies to sell things to us.
The kind of independent woman I seek would be able to easily break from such stereotyping... because she'd have the intelligence to do so, and the self-respect to not want to be someone's trophy wife.
Edited by Jellyfishluv, 31 August 2007 - 04:24 PM.
Keep on swimming, swimming, swimming...
