The curious feminine weakness for starving, incompetent artists

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Disclaimer: I'm not accusing any of the guys here of being worthless beatniks. I've seen some forumite art and it's actually GOOD.

"I've lost my touch. Can you be my new muse?"
"I have to draw you!"
"I'm in such PAIN! I'm so ANGRY all the time! Only you can relieve this turmoil!"

Why in the world do women fall for these guys? The typical starving artist is an uneducated, scrawny, burned out stoner. Everything about them is angst and self-loathing. Add a laundry list of authority issues to that and you've got the recipe for a total loser.

I won't profess to being an artist, but I know art. And nothing they produce is worthy of being called art. Of course I realize tastes vary, but there's an enormous gulf between real art and stuff that can only be described as "Vomit on Canvas." Their poetry isn't much better and usually consists of endless verses about pain, hate, and anger. It makes me depressed just to read it, and I don't mean that in a good way. It doesn't rhyme, it doesn't even have structure. It's basically just "I'm hurting inside! Feel sorry for me."

No, I'm not a philistine. I enjoy art, theater, and poetry. Affinity for such things is the mark of an educated, cultured mind. But the stuff these morons vomit out make Baby Jesus cry. While I understand that some people might prefer Longfellow to Coleridge, or Monet to Han Chinese art, all those things have one thing in common: they're actually art. They're not something you can normally see on a 14-year-old emo's Livejournal.

Seriously, why are women attracted to them? Those "artists" spend so much time in their basement studios that they look like Gollum.

And they look like they shared a lot of needles, so any girl who sleeps with them is completely off the market afterward.
 
*sigh*

You go for the beatnick starving artist and guys bitch that you're a drug user/dating a hobo/etc. You go for the successful accountant and guys bitch that you're a golddigger. Girls just can't win!
 
Yeah, but dating a successful accountant can actually be understood. He probably isn't crawling with hepatitis.
 
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Chibibar

IronBrig4: it is the image or "oooo I can change this person" mentality of a woman (or man) but I have encounter some women that want to find a man they can mold (yea they do exist) maybe that is why they go after these people.

Of course there is also the mentality of "seeing a bad boy" that they normally don't see just to see what it is like. This explains that some hot women dating some real a-hole I have encounter. (when I use a-hole I mean these guys are rude, mean, even threaten to lift their hand against these women and yet they stay with them.......... so confusing)

There is a psychological thing on this one. I know that some abused women (not saying above women are abused) have this mentality so..... that is the best answer I can give from what I have experience and seen personally.
 
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GeneralOrder24

Yeah well the hot slutty girl is HOT. The starving artist looks like a pale hippie.

Some people are attracted to free spirits. Some people are attracted to fat people. Some are attracted to tall ones, some to skinny. Some are attracted to assholes, some to people with big hearts. Some people just want someone to love, some just want someone to love them, and some, even still, just want to not be alone. Some are turned on by promiscuous ones, others are turned on by the more prudish.

Relationships and attractions aren't rocket science, it's way WAY more complicated then that. :)

EDIT: Which is why all you manbaw people need to keep looking.
 
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Kitty Sinatra

I'm gonna just go ahead and assume that one of these lousy beatniks stole the gal you're lusting after.
 

Green_Lantern

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Why are some girls attracted to bad boys? The same reason that some guys are attracted hot slutty girls.
The bad boys case is testoterone.

Also, Freefall had a neat explanation, while it is hard to be a single mother, there is a advantage in having a kid from a promiscuous guy, the guys "promiscuity genes" might pass on, what means that he is more likely to have multiple with multiple mothers spreading more the original single mother own genes in the process.
 
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TotalFusionOne

Some people are attracted to free spirits. Some people are attracted to fat people.
Wait, where are the girls attracted to fat guys?
 

ElJuski

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Wait, I thought people only fell for those types in the movies. I've never seen that in real life.

I have to start writing poems about girls now.
 
I'm gonna just go ahead and assume that one of these lousy beatniks stole the gal you're lusting after.
Almost two years ago, I lost a close friend to a lousy beatnik. While I had expressed some romantic interest in her before, it was pretty much gone by the time she met the guy. He fit the description in the OP (the guy was a complete scumbag). He had even picked her up on Second Life. I didn't like him, and neither did anybody else. So the girl pretty much dropped me and all her old friends.

Since I'm starting to date somebody else, that particular issue doesn't have much relevance anymore. But I never cared for those Gollum lookalikes to begin with. I look at their "artwork" and know I can make a better painting if I eat a king-sized bag of Starburst and throw up on the canvas.
 
I'm gonna just go ahead and assume that one of these lousy beatniks stole the gal you're lusting after.
Almost two years ago, I lost a close friend to a lousy beatnik. While I had expressed some romantic interest in her before, it was pretty much gone by the time she met the guy. He fit the description in the OP (the guy was a complete scumbag). He had even picked her up on Second Life. I didn't like him, and neither did anybody else. So the girl pretty much dropped me and all her old friends.

Since I'm starting to date somebody else, that particular issue doesn't have much relevance anymore. But I never cared for those Gollum lookalikes to begin with. I look at their "artwork" and know I can make a better painting if I eat a king-sized bag of Starburst and throw up on the canvas.[/QUOTE]

You, my friend, are a terrible fucking liar.
 
I'm gonna just go ahead and assume that one of these lousy beatniks stole the gal you're lusting after.
Almost two years ago, I lost a close friend to a lousy beatnik. While I had expressed some romantic interest in her before, it was pretty much gone by the time she met the guy. He fit the description in the OP (the guy was a complete scumbag). He had even picked her up on Second Life. I didn't like him, and neither did anybody else. So the girl pretty much dropped me and all her old friends.

Since I'm starting to date somebody else, that particular issue doesn't have much relevance anymore. But I never cared for those Gollum lookalikes to begin with. I look at their "artwork" and know I can make a better painting if I eat a king-sized bag of Starburst and throw up on the canvas.[/QUOTE]

You, my friend, are a terrible fucking liar.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:
 
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Chibibar

I'm gonna just go ahead and assume that one of these lousy beatniks stole the gal you're lusting after.
Almost two years ago, I lost a close friend to a lousy beatnik. While I had expressed some romantic interest in her before, it was pretty much gone by the time she met the guy. He fit the description in the OP (the guy was a complete scumbag). He had even picked her up on Second Life. I didn't like him, and neither did anybody else. So the girl pretty much dropped me and all her old friends.

Since I'm starting to date somebody else, that particular issue doesn't have much relevance anymore. But I never cared for those Gollum lookalikes to begin with. I look at their "artwork" and know I can make a better painting if I eat a king-sized bag of Starburst and throw up on the canvas.[/QUOTE]

You, my friend, are a terrible fucking liar.[/QUOTE]

Gamers can be beatnik :)

Second Life actually have quite a bit of artist (at least my friend at Lindin's lab tells me) cause of all the art and stuff in there.
 
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GeneralOrder24

Now, you just know some jackass with too much money would probably pay for that. I say do it.
Thanks, that totally made my night. I could probably put a "the making of" video on Youtube and get 100,000 views within 24 hours. Then I could be Internet Rich!

And when you mentioned the jackass with too much money who would pay for it, I thought of this guy.

One art, please!
 
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SeraRelm

I have nothing constructive to add to this conversation!


Oh wait, I do. Various people are attracted to various things, you just tend to single out the odd ones.
 
*sigh*

You go for the beatnick starving artist and guys bitch that you're a drug user/dating a hobo/etc. You go for the successful accountant and guys bitch that you're a golddigger. Girls just can't win!
Sure you can, don't bother with guys at all. ;)
 
But seriously guys why do all the girls go for the guys who aren't me.

Don't they know they don't know whats good for them but I do?
 
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Iaculus

*sigh*

You go for the beatnick starving artist and guys bitch that you're a drug user/dating a hobo/etc. You go for the successful accountant and guys bitch that you're a golddigger. Girls just can't win!
Sure you can, don't bother with guys at all. ;)[/QUOTE]

There are no female beatnik starving artists?
 
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