14 theories on assholes and those that supposedly love them. WARNING, these are just theories!:
(for the sake of making points, let's assume the asshole is male, and the victim is female)
- My naive theory is that in reality they don't like, date, or fuck assholes, they just give them fake numbers to get rid of them and parhaps use them occaisonally for drinks, sex, rides, money, dinner, and drugs. And of course they would never love them of give themselves completely to them like they would to me, a 'nice guy'.
and now we descend into the maelstrom that is the female mind......
- a woman is attracted to a guy that resembles an asshole boyfriend from the past who dumped her and broke her heart, a guy she can never be with again, so she picks a guy that resembles him. Imagine a girl losing her virginity to a guy that dumps her soon afterwards, i'm sure she'll go out with least 4 guys like him in her life, trying to vainly reclaim some part of her lost innocent adolescence from a wound that never healed.....
- one of the legacies of evolution is that women are biologically drawn to alpha-males, and being an asshole is the superficial projection of being an alpha-male, the 'Hollywood' syndrome. I think women are biologically wired to accept that if a guy does not need to suck up to get what he wants, morover, if can be an asshole and still get what he wants, he must be: very good looking, rich, connected, or that mysterious wildcard, POWERFUL, which happens to be the #1 aphrodesiac. And for what purpose are women biologically wired? And what is the relationship between procreation and power?
- women want a tough-skinned man who will listen to their whining and submit to her verbal abuse; a sensitive man will make her feel guilty for being the driven psychopath that she is. Thin-skinned sensitive males make for poor whipping boys and punching bags: they see through the charade, plus they bruise way too easily

.
- if a guy is 'sensitive', there is going to be this very dark, freaky, psychopathic side of him that will eventually come out, usually with disastrous results. Whereas if a guy is a simple macho misanthrope, he is going to have no secrets, he will never be silent with his thoughts, he will be predictable, and easy. And likewise, if a guy does not show natural outward hostility or insensitivity, he is obviously keeping it bottled up for the day he 'goes postal'
- women are afraid of eventually finding happiness and contentment in a relationship. ultimate success is scary. Therefore they sabotage their relationships, the easiest way being to pick an asshole as a relationship partner. And then they can have excuses, power trips, and loads of fun cigarette and coffee sessions with their chick friends where they denounce the whole male half of the human species
(reasons why?: perhaps her skeletons, baggage, and overall lifestyle are not cleaned up enough to be able to share them with another person. Perhaps it's fear of being intimate with somebody else. Perhaps they love their single lifestyle. Perhaps it's peer pressure to stay single. Perhaps it means giving up on Mr. Perfect and going for Mr. Pretty Good Find. Perhaps they'r afraid of getting sucked into the 'suburban mom' lifestyle)
- of the male stock that's out there, 70% of them are assholes, 15% are taken, and all the good looking, well dressed and good dancing ones are gay
- or maybe there's an actual plethora of intelligent stud-muffins out there and women, with their rather fucked intuition, see them through those dreaded 'Nice Guy Glasses'. The term 'women's intuition' means squat to me, i've seen women discard the most available, intelligent straight guys for capital W capital L Wifebeating Losers.......
- there still exists the primal archetype of the post-modern valiant male who kicks the ass of an impending bully in the proverbial warehouse/niteclub district late at night, thus insuring his woman's safety. And since assholes do the sand kicking at the beach, and nice guys eat sand, they put their money on the asshole to take care of them.
- if a guy's an asshole, more often than naught he's been fucked over by women and this is is retribution. However, that means he might be able to be fucked over, making him ripe for the proverbial kill.......
- women want to be able to date many guys for material or sexual reasons so they pick guys that are easy to dump. Or they pick guys they know won't call back. Or they pick guys they're not going to want to talk to again. Or she picks guys that are unpalatable to her friends, so they won't back-stab her and fuck him. Or she picks someone her boyfriend would hate, just to snub him. (i'm sure it's more common than we think). And women that want to get fucked hard in bed would probably steer themselves towards asshole shores.
- Let me not forget to mention that women typically get very attached to a person they're having sex with, so if they don't look out, they might get swept away into an tide of emotion they are not pragmatically prepared to handle; therefore waking up to mr. asshole in the morning will be an instinctual reminder not to get too attached unless she really means it.
- assholes tend to have more money and power, which is good for the 'courtship' and good if they get married. assholes also tend to be more aggressive, which is important because women are still in the passenger seat, courtship-wise. It is much more common for a woman to submit under the pressure of an aggresive male than for a woman to solicit a passive male, likewise the early bird gets the worm, and we know what natural selection thinks of lackadaisacal sperm.
- perhaps women pick assholes out of some masochistic tendencies that arise from residue of unresolved parental/familial relationhips. not pleasant indeed, but i'm sure i've seen people that could be characterized as so. It's sad, but some women are looking for someone that's beyond dominating; some feel drawn towards abusive people for one reason or another

. And some women have been brutalized to believe that they are not worthy of anything better than an asshole. Or perhaps more commonly, the parent's generation might suggest a gallant gentleman, so the rebellious teen goes for the pierced jocko asshole just to be anti-authoritarian. Not to bring up family ties again, but it's like Mallory picking Nick over Skippy. (And not to dis' Nick, he was an 'artist' after all)
these are just theories, debate at will, i'm just tossing them out for discussion, i love women with all their divine and kooky characteristics. sorry if i sound misogynistic, i'm just probing women's minds and what makes them tick.
[ 18 February 2002: Message edited by: liquidocean ]