Do Ladies Prefer Gentlemen? (page 2)

dawg

Not when you're in the bedroom they don't

avishai

Here's a phrase by Louis l'amour:

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realist, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads

A quote I always liked, nevertheless, I'm a gentleman....

Priest73

my ex preferred a bad boy over me. But atleast I'll never have to hear "You're not gunna wear that are you." so now, Yeah. This is what I'm wearing.

avishai

There's a friend of mine who posted a blog out there that really touched me as it showed that there are still ladies out there that want a great guy...

1. Do you derive joy when someone else succeeds?
2. Do you have a large intellectual capacity but know that it alone does not equate wisdom?
3. Do you understand the beauty in compromise?
4. Are you both masculine yet sensitive?
5. Politically aware?
6. Do you question our flawed justice system?
7. Do you understand that loving someone can actually feel like freedom?
8. Can you make me laugh without it feeling contrived?
9. Do you not play dirty when engaged in competition?
10. Are you creative and willing to take risks to express that creativity?
11. Do you seek adventure?
12. Do you find yourself compelled to defend those who cannot defend themselves?
13. Do you embrace and appreciate the positive forces in your life?
14. Are you willing to forgive, even in difficult circumstances?
15. Are you willing to stand up for something you believe in?
16. Have you many formed opinions with the ability to articulate them without sounding self-righteous or judgmental?
17. Are you willing to accept or consider opinions that are not your own?
18. Are you reciprocal, uninhibited and passionate in bed, more than five times a week?
19. Are you passionate about something in life other than financial gain and social status?
20. Are you able to communicate without interjecting angry words that you can't take back?
21. Will you remind me that you are thinking about me from time to time without being prompted to do so?
22. Are you athletic?
23. Are you humble?
24. Are you faithful?
25. Are you thriving in a job that motivates you to both succeed professionally and give back to the world?
26. Would you give up materialism for unadulterated bliss?
27. Are willing to admit when you are wrong, even if it means curbing your tendency to be stubborn?
28. Are you not chemically or emotionally addicted?
29. Are you able to contribute relevant thoughts in a conversation without preparation?
30. Do you find yourself curious about the world and people who are unlike you?
31. Do you have compassion and the will to express it?

now, I'm not saying I fit that list to a "T" (I don't) but I dig the sentiment.

Merry Magdalene

I think gentlemen are no less romantic and appealing (and maybe even dangerous) than scoundrels and rogues, and sometimes much more so. I love this description:

"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure." Charlie Chaplin

I appreciate a multidimensional man who values and cultivates the manners and morals I strive for in myself. "Gentleman" is one quality among many that I appreciate.

The man I loved most in childhood, my granddad, was a gentleman (among other things).

The man I love now I would describe as a gentleman, and I feel like who he is and how he treats me brings out the best in me, somehow.

~Merry

SnakesInTheTower

eclipse:

I prefer my man to treat me more as an equal, and not as a weaker woman who needs help.... Maybe my views are wrong, I look forward to reading other's comments.

Your views are not wrong... women are equal to men...equal but different...not a bad thing.........its called...we are all humans. Only animals are lesser than we humans. There are lots of women stronger than me physically, smarter than me, definitely better looking...so I know my place in the world.... LOL....

I have recently been reading books that focus on the way women are treated in different parts of the world. One trilogy of books was a biography...and this particular biography was about a smart, beautiful, intelligent woman who would thrive in the Western World...but was born into the Saudi royal family instead. Sultana is lucky compared to most Saudi women..in or out of the royal family. Her husband (and he only has one wife, unusual there) treats her like a princess in every sense of the word and his daughters too...as much as society allows him to do so. In the name of religion, men treat women brutally in that part of the world. Very eye opening indeed,....

Yet, in this part of the world, there are too many "bad boys" who do not have the societal norm of treating women badly, but yet they do....why do women fall for men that are unhealthy emotionally? Yet I see it over and over and over. Someone said look at a girl's past ex-boyfriends....yep..almost always a pattern....

As for me......I may have been socially stunted in the Borg, but I know how to treat a woman properly. I feel that women are my equal, and in many cases, my superior intellectually. I am Ok with that. We can't all be super intelligent. I can hold a conversation one-on-one...(groups is where I have the problem). I recognize not only the physical but also the emotional needs we each have..and I am not afraid to explore that.......and women are not the only ones who need emotional support....if men are honest with themselves, we need it as much as women... I dont consider women "weaker" just because they may be of slighter physical build (I think eclipse could kick my ass with no problem...little as she may be......I wouldnt want to piss her off ...LOL ...ducking for cover.....)

It seems like I have always been the "safe" friend....the one that a woman can talk to, unload on...but at the end of the day...I am not the one they go home with or date or marry. So much for being a gentleman. That's OK, one day I will find the woman I dont have to play games with to get their attention. I refuse to be fake. What you will get with me is LOYALTY...does that count for anything anymore?

Snakes ()

onacruse

Edited to add: "naif" is masculine, and while not improper, naive is standard. It's just a "guy" thing.

Well, I'm just a "standard" kind of guy.

Very cool of you to properly correct me, after I attempted to properly correct you.

That's what a good discussion board is all about, eh? (Just to throw in a Canuckianism here...is that a word???).

I offer $1,000,000 American dollars (or Loonies) to anybody on this board who can fully and adequately and professionally answer the original question propounded.

wanderlustguy

I don't know for certain, but my understanding has come to this so far, at least with the female company I have enjoyed.

They want rough hands that can shatter glass that cages them in, but are also gentle enough to handle a butterfly. They want a sharp mind that doesn't sleep, but sometimes can't help but know the things she has thought but not said. They want the guy that would never, ever hurt her, but would lay to waste anything resembling a threat to her without even thinking about it.

It's a hard thing to walk the line that is laid down by the kind of woman that makes a man want to be better. You have to be bad enough to make it through the hardest of hard, yet gentle enough to understand what it feels like to really hurt inside.

But, maybe I'm way off, since I haven't exactly found myself with Miss Wonderful for the rest of my life...then again, maybe I just wasn't ready yet.

I do know some girls just want a guy with money or an appearance of security. And that's all they end up with.

WLG

DaCheech

96% of women like it both ways from the same man, there other 4% is lesbian

JK

restrangled

Coco, do you remember the song...."Every woman loves a well dressed man" (One of my favorites by ZZtop)

That is correct. Every woman loves a high class man...(I believe you fit that description)

r.

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