Women want to be controlled. Oh the'll deny it until their face turns blue, but they do. They also want a guy that will take them places. They want to walk into hell with a man to protect them by their side. So when the mean guy says "get in the damn car", she does. whne he says, I want to ahve sex with you, NOW! She does. Does she want to, yep, but does she really want to have a guy like this as her husband? Not unless she is willing to have him treat her like a maid, or a trophy. [\quote]

Gideon70, I can't believe your response here. DISCLAIMER: I say the following with the utmost respect for you as a fellow citizen of my planet.

You go beyond over-generalization in your rant.

Firstly, I'm so sick of all the whiners lumping all men, and all women into nice, neat little compartments. How the hell can you start out a sentence with "Women want..." or "Women are..." or "Women always..." I'm not even directing this solely at poor Gideon70. I'm talking to all the whiners too. (Gideon, you weren't whining, luv.) But Gideon, I am a little offended at your implication that all women want to be controlled, especially those of us who deny it. I'm one of those who denys that. I'm a serious control FREAK. I have always been this way. Maybe it's because I grew up as the only child in my household, maybe it's because the women in my mother's family rule with iron fists. Whatever the reason, I like to make decisions for myself. The men I date tend to be momma's boys. Their mothers sometimes try to control me, but the men themselves never make this attempt. I have only ever gone out with extremely chivalrous men who treat me with the utmost respect,and carry themseleves with dignity. These guys have always been very intelligent, very funny,but most importantly,very confident. I like when they take care of things, but I have to have had a hand in all of the decision-making. In fact, I stopped speaking to a man with whom I'd emailed back and forth because during our first phone call, he told me what to do instead of asking me why I had decided to do something I had decided to do. I told all my girl friends about it, and they were mortified. hey called him all kinds of names he didn'treally deserve, leading me to think they don't want to be controlled either.

Secondly, you cannot compare Riddick to Gillligan! That's apples and oranges, my dear. Riddick can make women swoon regardless of his actual personality because when he enters a room, it is his room. He is graceful (which appeals on a primal level because humans are programmed t find the healthiest person of the opposite gender and mate with them), confident, and looks like he has something important to accomplish. Gilligan is clumsy, comes accross as though he lacks self confidence, looks like he has no plans, nothing to do, and doesn't seem to know when to be quiet. You could sit accross a bar from these two, watch them for just a few minutesand learn all of this. You still wouldn't know whether either of them was nice, or mean when it comes to relationships. Let's compare oranges to oranges. And let's stick to comics if we're starting with Riddick.

I give you: Bruce Wayne vs. Peter Parker. These are both very nice men. Ok, so one's much youngerm, and less successful. However, they're both very good looking, and very nice. Bruce is way more succesful with women than Peter will ever be. Peter could get rich from his photography, and still not be able to find a nice girl and remain settled with her for long. It isn't Bruce's money that makes him more desireable. It's Bruce. Bruce is busy. Very busy. But comes accross as strong, dependable, confident, worldly, and spontaneoous. Peter is very busy. However, he manages his time quite poorly and is therefore undependable. He keeps putting himself in a position of having to explain himself, which makes him appear to lack confidence, and appear to be weak. This is not attractive. He lures a girl in with his great sense of humor, and good looks. When he's charming, Peter is very charming, and charming people come accross as confident. But when he lets that image slide, he loses the girl. Bruce only loses the girl when he pushes them away because he wants to protect them from Batman's life, or when he thinks they like Batman better.

Gideon70, you seem nice, and you seem good. I don't even disagree with most of what you said, so I hope you don't take this the wrong way.