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The real players...
Sunday, 10th October 2010
As a head-strong woman I live my life as a series of power-plays.

It’s all about who has the upper-hand in relationships. This extends from power juggling with guys, to housemates, best friends and sometimes even my bosses. I always like to have the upper-hand – part of my controlling nature inherited from my mother. So when I realised that there are guys out there who believe they have the upper-hand, who believe they know how to play girls –I feel like I need to help these girls, or as some disrespectful guys calls them – slags – to avoid the players: to always maintain the upper-hand.

As a rule, I don’t have sex.

Ever.

Now this may surprise some of you after reading previous articles I have written. However, I have never explicitly mentioned sex in any way. I have two reasons for my avoidance of sex: the first being that I believe sex creates emotional connections - something I try very hard to avoid; and secondly because if you have sex with someone the chase is over. As someone I know very delicately puts it, ‘A slag is like a condom’. In some ways I agree with this guy: I believe men like him desire one thing, the conquest, and once that’s done, the prize, however unsatisfying emotionally – maybe even unsatisfying physically - is won and that’s that.

And some men believe the slags are the ones who are the players.

Here I think they are deceived. You see, the girls who are fully in control are the ones who do not sleep with guys in the toilets of Salvation: they are the ones who hold out. The real players know how to turn a boy into a simpering mess; how to bring out his real emotions and feelings; how to make him believe that not all girls are evil and that not all girls are going to just come along and break his heart.

I believe certain guys need to learn a lesson, and the real players are the ones to teach them that lesson.

I can guarantee you that when these guys are laid in bed at 9am, after kicking their floozy of the night out, they will not be feeling proud: they will not be mentally high-fiving themselves for their amazing effort and brilliant skills - no, they will be feeling empty inside.

Because that is what they are.

They may feel like they have managed to play some poor drunk girl in a random club, but I assure you they will still feel like they are missing something. And maybe one day these guys will grow up enough to realise what they actually want in life, maybe one day they will learn to stop showboating for their friends and actually respect and trust a girl.

Until then, guys like this will only be used for one reason, as Trophy Boyfriends.

Just something pretty a girl like me will accessorise herself with.

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#1 Anonymous
Sat, 9th Oct 2010 1:02pm

"You see, the ones who are fully in control are the ones who do not sleep with guys in the toilets of Salvation"

Oh snap!

#2 Anonymous
Sat, 9th Oct 2010 2:19pm

These responses to other blogger's articles are just petty and not particularly interesting. It comes across as snipey, especially using in-jokes. Anonymous bylines are just an excuse to create a faux "celebrity" status, and to talk about things that most people don't really care about.

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