ALT-2 Dating should Men or Women take the first Initiative – Women
Speaking as a guy, I firmly and whole-heartedly believe that women should be the ones who take the first initiative. Why? Because I am so unbelievably shy that I can never, ever, ever take the initiative and approach women I don't know and start talking to them. Folks, I can't even do mindless chit-chat with the woman cutting my hair or the checkout girl at the grocery store. People I don't know are just that, people I don't know and, as such, I have no idea what to say to them.
I have firmly believed for years that women need to wear big signs over their heads. It should say, in bright neon, "YES, I AM INTERESTED IN YOU" or "NO THANKS, PLEASE MOVE ON." This is because my second problem is, I cannot read signs from women. For the longest time I have told people that the only time I have ever been hit on was when I was hit on by a drunken gay man while waiting for a bus. This may not actually be true. There may have been countless women who have hit on me, but did so so subtly that I never caught on to the signs.
I am not a flirt. I do not have the flirting gene. Apparently when they were handing out those particular genes up in the new soul assembly line, I was busy getting more space in my brain to store movie quotes and other useless trivia. Therefore, unless a women comes up to me and says, quite blatantly, "I would really like you to be on me" I will blissfully be unaware of what is happening or that anyone is interested in me.
I am the guy that so many women say things like, "Bryan, you are so creative, funny and such a sweet guy, I don't understand why women just aren't all over you." Well, first off, I am not exactly the most physically attractive guy in the world, but the second part is that in order to find out I am a sweet guy, these women need to talk to me. Thanks to the way the world tends to work, this means I am supposed to initiate this conversation. Since I am incapable of this, none of these women ever get to see if I am sweet, bitter, or some other taste in between. You see the problem
I am also a man who does not speak very well. I am born and bred a writer. I am wired to communicate to the world via a keyboard. So, in addition to the neon signs, if everyone could walk around with keyboards that can transmit what is typed directly into people's heads, that would be great. Bill Gates, get on that technology now. Maybe you can work with Steve Jobs. Come one, you can't tell me those computer geeks haven't wanted technology like this.
So, for me, the world would be simpler if women would just initiate. It would save me wondering if the pretty girl in the library who looked at me a few times and smiled was flirting or laughing because I had ink smeared across my nose. It would also rescue me from the gaggle of women who always travel in large packs at the various bars. It makes it impossible for shy guys like me to talk to an individual in that group.
Initiate women! Please! Before I end up being the guy who dies alone in his apartment and no one notices until the air starts to smell funny.
