Take a Risk. Lose the Mask. Get the Girl.

Annefy
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I had occasion to write in a comment in another thread (which I deleted) about someone I knew long ago. That he wasn’t the most dependable of men, but he was someone who I knew would have walked through fire for me.

And it got me thinking about the times in which we find ourselves. There’s a young man of our acquaintance; if there was a son #4, it would be him. His parents adopted him when they were in their 50s; we met him when he was five, he grew up right in between sons #2 and #3.

His parents being of a certain age, Covid has been issue #1 in these past many months. We finally managed to encourage him out of his home a couple of times; on each occasion, I pulled him aside and said: Honey. Lose the mask. There are available women here. They might not even be aware, but they’re judging you on your willingness to take risks.

I can be a nice person. And with some, I’ll make the effort, like with son #4 (sons 1-3 would claim they have never seen me nice). But I am sick to death of reading comments and Twitter threads and Facebook posts from men (?) who lament the tough times in which they find themselves. Mask? No Mask? Vaccine? No Vaccine? Work at home? Go to the office? Which colored lanyard?

It’s all too much for them, they’re suffering from anxiety. They remind themselves they have the burden of living in literally. The. Toughest. Times. Ever.

Seriously. Have they never had a conversation with their grandparents? Their parents?

Back in the day, everyone would sit back after dinner, have a coffee and a smoke, and listen to stories. Which gave us context to judge circumstances. There is no context anymore, which is leading to an epidemic of anxiousness.

Lame.

Women want someone who will walk through fire for them. Not someone fussing over whether who is wearing a mask at Whole Foods.

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  1. Annefy Member
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    12:04 AM EDT ⋅ Aug 3, 2021

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

     

    Regarding women, the single young women I knew of in Phoenix before moving last August – daughters and nieces of neighbors, etc – were all terrified of covid. Biologically they might want a man “willing to take risks” but their social/parental “programming” overcame that, by orders of magnitude. Maybe if they were married already or had spent more time with men earlier – many of them lived with mothers and no fathers – they would have developed healthier attitudes. But the fact is, they didn’t, and it showed. And that doesn’t change by going to a “party” with young men not wearing masks to try and impress them.

    I’m guessing the women you describe wouldn’t have accepted the invitation to the party in the first place

    If the announcement or whatever suggested that masks were “expected” they’d probably have gone, and then maybe left if they saw many people not using masks at least if they didn’t really believe that masks protected THEM even if other people didn’t seem to care if they got covid. But I don’t think they would have been impressed by the guys not wearing masks, unless they didn’t wear masks themselves but that would have been very unlikely for those young women.

    And having been married already for years, doesn’t seem to matter for a lot of women either, as we see in: https://ricochet.com/1016164/my-wife-is-totally-freaking-out-about-covid-and-i-know-i-cant-be-the-only-one/

    A picture from a typical party at my daughter’s. This particular event was on June 21, 2020; it was a craw daddy boil and the theme was the Tiger King series. (check out those T shirts!)

    Ain’t no way masks would have every been “expected”, and anyone invited or attending would have known that. During our many parties in the past 18 months, my daughter and I had a deal. Everyone was welcome, and no one would be judged for not showing up. We did make an effort to reach out to single people whom we knew were isolated.

    I hesitated for a moment to share the pic, but it has been shared hundreds of times over a multitude of media platforms

     

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  2. kedavis Coolidge
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    12:30 AM EDT ⋅ Aug 3, 2021

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

     

    Regarding women, the single young women I knew of in Phoenix before moving last August – daughters and nieces of neighbors, etc – were all terrified of covid. Biologically they might want a man “willing to take risks” but their social/parental “programming” overcame that, by orders of magnitude. Maybe if they were married already or had spent more time with men earlier – many of them lived with mothers and no fathers – they would have developed healthier attitudes. But the fact is, they didn’t, and it showed. And that doesn’t change by going to a “party” with young men not wearing masks to try and impress them.

    I’m guessing the women you describe wouldn’t have accepted the invitation to the party in the first place

    If the announcement or whatever suggested that masks were “expected” they’d probably have gone, and then maybe left if they saw many people not using masks at least if they didn’t really believe that masks protected THEM even if other people didn’t seem to care if they got covid. But I don’t think they would have been impressed by the guys not wearing masks, unless they didn’t wear masks themselves but that would have been very unlikely for those young women.

    And having been married already for years, doesn’t seem to matter for a lot of women either, as we see in: https://ricochet.com/1016164/my-wife-is-totally-freaking-out-about-covid-and-i-know-i-cant-be-the-only-one/

    A picture from a typical party at my daughter’s. This particular event was on June 21, 2020; it was a craw daddy boil and the theme was the Tiger King series. (check out those T shirts!)

    Ain’t no way masks would have every been “expected”, and anyone invited or attending would have known that. During our many parties in the past 18 months, my daughter and I had a deal. Everyone was welcome, and no one would be judged for not showing up. We did make an effort to reach out to single people whom we knew were isolated.

    I hesitated for a moment to share the pic, but it has been shared hundreds of times over a multitude of media platforms

     

    If that’s not one of the events where young men such as your “stepson” went to originally wearing a mask, then it doesn’t seem relevant.

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  3. Annefy Member
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    12:39 AM EDT ⋅ Aug 3, 2021

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

     

    Regarding women, the single young women I knew of in Phoenix before moving last August – daughters and nieces of neighbors, etc – were all terrified of covid. Biologically they might want a man “willing to take risks” but their social/parental “programming” overcame that, by orders of magnitude. Maybe if they were married already or had spent more time with men earlier – many of them lived with mothers and no fathers – they would have developed healthier attitudes. But the fact is, they didn’t, and it showed. And that doesn’t change by going to a “party” with young men not wearing masks to try and impress them.

    I’m guessing the women you describe wouldn’t have accepted the invitation to the party in the first place

    If the announcement or whatever suggested that masks were “expected” they’d probably have gone, and then maybe left if they saw many people not using masks at least if they didn’t really believe that masks protected THEM even if other people didn’t seem to care if they got covid. But I don’t think they would have been impressed by the guys not wearing masks, unless they didn’t wear masks themselves but that would have been very unlikely for those young women.

    And having been married already for years, doesn’t seem to matter for a lot of women either, as we see in: https://ricochet.com/1016164/my-wife-is-totally-freaking-out-about-covid-and-i-know-i-cant-be-the-only-one/

    A picture from a typical party at my daughter’s. This particular event was on June 21, 2020; it was a craw daddy boil and the theme was the Tiger King series. (check out those T shirts!)

    Ain’t no way masks would have every been “expected”, and anyone invited or attending would have known that. During our many parties in the past 18 months, my daughter and I had a deal. Everyone was welcome, and no one would be judged for not showing up. We did make an effort to reach out to single people whom we knew were isolated.

    I hesitated for a moment to share the pic, but it has been shared hundreds of times over a multitude of media platforms

     

    If that’s not one of the events where young men such as your “stepson” went to originally wearing a mask, then it doesn’t seem relevant.

    Sigh. It was the exact event. 

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
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    12:50 AM EDT ⋅ Aug 3, 2021

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

     

    Regarding women, the single young women I knew of in Phoenix before moving last August – daughters and nieces of neighbors, etc – were all terrified of covid. Biologically they might want a man “willing to take risks” but their social/parental “programming” overcame that, by orders of magnitude. Maybe if they were married already or had spent more time with men earlier – many of them lived with mothers and no fathers – they would have developed healthier attitudes. But the fact is, they didn’t, and it showed. And that doesn’t change by going to a “party” with young men not wearing masks to try and impress them.

    I’m guessing the women you describe wouldn’t have accepted the invitation to the party in the first place

    If the announcement or whatever suggested that masks were “expected” they’d probably have gone, and then maybe left if they saw many people not using masks at least if they didn’t really believe that masks protected THEM even if other people didn’t seem to care if they got covid. But I don’t think they would have been impressed by the guys not wearing masks, unless they didn’t wear masks themselves but that would have been very unlikely for those young women.

    And having been married already for years, doesn’t seem to matter for a lot of women either, as we see in: https://ricochet.com/1016164/my-wife-is-totally-freaking-out-about-covid-and-i-know-i-cant-be-the-only-one/

    A picture from a typical party at my daughter’s. This particular event was on June 21, 2020; it was a craw daddy boil and the theme was the Tiger King series. (check out those T shirts!)

    Ain’t no way masks would have every been “expected”, and anyone invited or attending would have known that. During our many parties in the past 18 months, my daughter and I had a deal. Everyone was welcome, and no one would be judged for not showing up. We did make an effort to reach out to single people whom we knew were isolated.

    I hesitated for a moment to share the pic, but it has been shared hundreds of times over a multitude of media platforms

     

    If that’s not one of the events where young men such as your “stepson” went to originally wearing a mask, then it doesn’t seem relevant.

    Sigh. It was the exact event.

    And you still had to suggest losing the mask?  How odd.

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