I'm 21. Feel like I'm never going to get a girlfriend.
Get your act together. Show up. Relax. Let them check you out. If they like what they see, you're hired the one!
I've had to actively "do something" about not having a girlfriend.
I'm not exactly the Cat's Meow. When I was in my 20s, I was short, chubby, wore glasses, looked nerdy and young. I had many features which women aren't attracted to.
I had to do other things other than just "show up" to make myself attractive.
These same guys would get miffed off because the B-girls along the Strip would ignore them in favor of those of us who at least tried to present a civilized appearance. Telling those guys to "class up" was about as effective as telling the "I can't get a girlfriend" crowd here at WP the same thing. They either believed that they were already "classy" enough, or that the B-girls were obligated to service their sexual desires no matter how unattractive the guys were, so they did not put forth any effort to be attractive.
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According to google it means a bar girl.
Or A Bomb girl?
Or A Bootycall girl?
Or A Blue girl? A Smurfette?
Btw, what is the smurfette’s job? She doesn’t seem to have a craft like other smurfs, she’s just...a smurfette?
Then she's on to the next guy...
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Then she's on to the next guy...
So she’s a Hepatitis B Girl.
Well I live in a large-ish college/hippie town with a very weird reputation so I probably see this too regularly to take notice.
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These same guys would get miffed off because the B-girls along the Strip would ignore them in favor of those of us who at least tried to present a civilized appearance. Telling those guys to "class up" was about as effective as telling the "I can't get a girlfriend" crowd here at WP the same thing. They either believed that they were already "classy" enough, or that the B-girls were obligated to service their sexual desires no matter how unattractive the guys were, so they did not put forth any effort to be attractive.
Well you specifically said the advice Canadian Penguin gave could work, and there was no mention of getting one's act together in that advice, in fact it encouraged not worrying about relationships and just letting things happen as they may, which is very different from "getting your act together" and improving to attract women. As a matter of fact I'd be inclined to say it's pretty much the opposite, so you affirming that Canadian Penguin's advice does work is akin to tacitly parroting it, but then adding the relatively subjective phrase "get your act together" in the context of getting your life together and self-improving in order to attract a partner actually negates Canadian Penguin's advice rather than affirming it. Or at the very least, you add a pivotal step which fundamentally alters Canadian Penguin's advice, without which, it won't work.
If you don't agree with the approach "Don't worry about it. Just live your life and it will happen." Without the adding of the pivotal step "Get your act together" Then it's fair to say that you actually don't align with the advice given by Canadian Penguin.
It'd be like me saying "to make a ham and cheese sandwich, the only thing you need is one slice of cheese and that's all". And then you coming along and saying "Yeah, you're absolutely 100% right, and you need bread and ham, too." You see what I'm saying?
It would make things a lot easier for me if I would just say "Yep...you'll never get a girlfriend. There's no hope for you."
But if I were to do that, I would be lying through my teeth.
Basically, if I were to believe what all this "social research" says, I would have remained a virgin at this point of my life--at age 58.
I don't have most of the "attributes" which "dateable" guys are supposed to have. Yet, I've done okay.
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I mean, what do you think the chances are of an uneducated slob following the "Don't worry / just live your life" philosophy as compared to a person who used to be an uneducated slob because he (or she) followed the "Don't worry, just class up and live your life" philosophy in finding someone special?
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