IsabellaLinton wrote:
sly279 wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Do you realize what that means, Mark? It means somebody BELIEVES you are Girlfriend Material.
People do that to me but that’s because they don’t know anything about me besides I’m a man. They wouldn’t think so if they knew my situation.
People do that to all customers because that's what they're taught in sales school: play into someone's guilt that they need to spend money on wooing a woman. It's presumptuous and homophobic because it doesn't allow that perhaps the male customer doesn't date women, or that they are asexual. I wouldn't let it bother me beyond the capitalist aspect.
Wow, that's the most political statement I've made in a long time.
Hugs to Sly and Marknis

Because I live in the Bible Belt, I am expected to be a church going Christian who has a lot of friends, has a girlfriend or maybe a wife and even some mistresses on the side, works a high paying job, watches football more religiously than reading the bible, thinks country music is a gift from God, and praises Donald Trump. When I dispel these assumptions, it's like I've just told someone I kill people.
IsabellaLinton wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
All right. It could have been a sales pitch.
But....even then....the implication was that the possibility that Marknis could get a girlfriend or a wife exists.
Of course there was that implication, and of course you can get a girlfriend or wife one day, Marknis (and Sly)!
I'm sorry for the rant but I don't like that salespeople said things so carelessly it made our WP friends want to hurt themselves in angst.

My detractors both here and who I face in the real world don't think so. In fact, they don't want me to ever have love and would celebrate if I truly gave up.