Men aren't as good facing reality as women, do you think??
Let's face it penni, men's reality is unfortunately just a much nicer place to be. So a lot of the time, we simply don't have to bother.
Back maybe towards fifteen years ago, I joined a very popular video dating service in Houston. One of the saddest things I will always remember was the forlorn faces of divorced, late forties to early fifties women paging monotonously through the books, vainly looking for reasonably acceptable men who would go out with them. I happened to be sitting next to one once, and we struck up a conversation. She said that most of the men their age with any promise whatsoever specified that they wanted someone forty or younger. And that most of the men willing to go out with them were in their late fifties to early sixties. On the other hand, plenty of late-thirties women had no issues whatsoever with dating someone ten or more years older than they were. Particularly if accompanied by a high end Mercedes.
Worse yet, I heard from the woman that her membership fee was twice as much as mine was (although I didn't tell her how much I paid, as they had me sign an agreement stating that I wouldn't divulge my fee). Apparently, they charged women in their late forties much more than say, women in their late thirties. What the market will bear. |
