Ladies, we've all done it. He's hot, so you've gotta have him, right? Or... he's SO hot that even if he's not perfect, it's justified?
Everyone's perfect Mimbo is just around the corner, but he is just eye candy. There is nothing under the surface, or maybe what is under the surface is ugly. It's like any doll when you're a kid, fun to play with but after a while, it just ends up at the bottom of the toy box unable to express emotion with a head that spins all the way around.
I dated an artsy Mimbo for several years. Very pretty man. Too pretty. It got weird. I don't have a need to be the better looking one in the relationship or anything, but I gained some weight in college and I began to think people would look at us like why the bleep is that hot Mimbo with that chunky girl. Anddddd then he cheated on me. So perhaps I wasn't that far off, and you do have to be on a somewhat level playing field. Regardless, I'm not saying a Mimbo isn't fun. They definitely can be, and can pass the time while waiting for Mr. Right, but I'm not really a fan of this practice. A good guy seeing you with a Mimbo can really lower your attractiveness. "What does she see in a douche like that?" I guess I don't know if guys really think that, but I KNOW women do. A guy loses value if he's with a total bimbo. We want a guy who craves a woman with substance. So, seeing a guy who clearly doesn't give a flying F about substance makes us wonder if he won't just up & leave a girl WITH said substance for the next floozy with a big fake rack and nipple clamps (I don't know why those came to mind. Now I'm sort of intrigued, and grossed out all at once).
More often than anything with the situation of chicks who date douchebags, I see the girl with the guy who doesn't give a crap about HER, but she still sticks around. The guy who is just a jerkface loser, going nowhere in life, but the girl is infatuated with him because they either were together in college or high school, or she doesn't think she can do better, or it's comfortable, or for God knows WHAT reason, she just sticks it out even though the relationship is sort of a joke. He probably steps out on her, and all his friends, and most of her friends know it... her girlfriends try to tell her but she insists things are fine. His guy friends are like, "where can we find more girls like your girlfriend?" thereby creating an environment of acceptance that it's not only OK, but desirable to treat your girlfriend like crap and get away with it. WHY does this girl hang around? Well... for a lot of the reasons I said above.
First, the girl who has been with her guy since high school, or college, or whatever. Just close your eyes for a second and think about yourself in high school, or even college. How different are you now? Pretty damn different. I don't want hardly any of the same things in a mate that I did back then. If I married the guy I was dating in high school or college, I'd be pretty miserable now. (Don't misquote me here, I'm not saying those relationships can't work!!!) My life goals, relationship goals, financial, work, and personal goals are ALL different. Typically this relationship of complacent girlfriend and douchebag boyfriend from high school/college consists of a girl who might have had dreams at one point, but put them on hold because she's "happy" with her guy who would rather play video games and get wasted with all the same buddies he's had since childhood, who are also douchebags. She'll never escape because she has no backbone, and he won't ever leave because he knows how good he has it. He might be a douchebag, but he's not a moron (the definition is slightly different, you see).
Then there's the girl who doesn't think she can do better. She's probably with the class of douchebag who talks down to her, doesn't treat her special EVER, and doesn't allow her to do X, Y, and Z. She might have been with a douchebag before who treated her like this and now she just flocks to controlling douchebags, but whatever the case may be, she just can't seem to shake them. I feel bad for these girls, I really do. I haven't always been the most beautiful girl in the room, and never will be, but I have always been a confident person, at least in myself. I know when I'm not being treated right and I'M OUT. These girls either don't see it or don't care... I just don't know. It's frustrating and sad to see though. My only hope is that these women can meet a good man one day who will make them feel beautiful and change their opinions of themselves... but really, that's an internal thing and I don't know that it will ever be better. Douchebags of the world will probably always be able to pray on these ones.
There is also the girl who is afraid to be alone. For the record, this might be the most dangerous kind. There is an absolute PLETHORA of douchey dudes out there. They are a dime a dozen, no doubt. Any lonely girl out there can have a douchebag on her arm if she wants one. These girls will date just about anybody, and hang onto them WAY past their relationship expiration date and against all advice of their friends, just because they are afraid of being alone. This girl may also suffer from a fear of not thinking she can find anything better, but they ARE separate symptoms. I am always scared for these girls because they just constantly sell themselves SO short. They come off as so desperate ("desperate" to a guy translates to "crazy", so... you cray), everyone can see it but they have no control, like they just CANNOT let go. It's really bizarre. But the worst part is, once they get free of the douchebag they are dating... there is another one right around the corner to cure their 2-hour-old loneliness. Independence, my ladies!
This really doesn't even scratch the surface. And it doesn't REALLY explain WHY they are with these douchebags either, but hey, the title of this isn't "WHY chicks date douchebags"... and besides, what would I know, I'm not dating a douchebag and I can spot one a pair-of-lenseless-glasses and hat-off-to-the-side away.
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