2008 Woodie Awards
Man's sixth sense
Ben Turner/ Verge Editor
Issue date: 4/18/03 Section: The Verge
Love is a great and beautiful thing. But let's face it - hooking up is so much more fun.
Eastern has definitely treated me better than high school did. There are a few things I have learned about the opposite sex during my four years at a state school, which happens to have a larger female population than male. While personal lessons hit home more, the things my old man has told me about women lately have been equally insightful. He and my mother separated during my sophomore year and needless to say his outlook on the opposite sex was affected.
The purpose of this column isn't to give any sex advice though because I'm far from the one to be giving tips on seducing women or turning yourself into the big man on campus.
Rather, I'd like to talk about what I believe is man's sixth sense. It's all about the vibe. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. As Led Zeppelin said, "When your evening starts to glow," is usually when you start to pick it up. She wants it and you know it. Now you have to decide what are you going to do about it.
In my opinion, women don't need to waste their sixth sense on something as caveman as young lust. In case some of you guys haven't noticed, and as my old man would say, women ultimately decide if things are going to progress past the flirting phase.
When you're hot you're hot. It seems like you'll go through stretches at a time where nothing's happening and you're just going through the motions. Then suddenly, typically out of nowhere, there's the vibe again. Maybe it coming from someone you've known for a while who is also been in slump and other times it's from someone you just met and you really don't know that well.
The key is the out-of-nowhere element. Typically forcing the issue leads to disaster. I don't know how many times one of my friends or myself has built up a night in our minds as the night when you finally make your move. But those nights where you just go out to have good time are the nights where something extracurricular happens with someone who is pleasing to the eye or captivates you with his or her knowledge of whatever topic you might be on that night.
Lately my old man has stressed the fact that they want it just as much as you do. Now that I think about it, he's actually been telling me that since high school, but maybe I finally believe him. Non-specific pronouns work fine in this paragraph because in my opinion it doesn't matter what side of the equation you're working on - they're both equal.
Bringing us to one of the most intriguing sociological questions of human nature. Why are females typically punished by their peers for their sexual prowess while males are rewarded or held in high regard by theirs? Slut and pimp kind of mean the same thing in the college lexicon but one is practically a slur while the other is a college form of nobility.
Oh yeah, why isn't it called the walk of shame when a guy walks home on a Saturday morning at 8 a.m. wearing the same clothes as the night before with a big grin on his face?
Eastern has definitely treated me better than high school did. There are a few things I have learned about the opposite sex during my four years at a state school, which happens to have a larger female population than male. While personal lessons hit home more, the things my old man has told me about women lately have been equally insightful. He and my mother separated during my sophomore year and needless to say his outlook on the opposite sex was affected.
The purpose of this column isn't to give any sex advice though because I'm far from the one to be giving tips on seducing women or turning yourself into the big man on campus.
Rather, I'd like to talk about what I believe is man's sixth sense. It's all about the vibe. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. As Led Zeppelin said, "When your evening starts to glow," is usually when you start to pick it up. She wants it and you know it. Now you have to decide what are you going to do about it.
In my opinion, women don't need to waste their sixth sense on something as caveman as young lust. In case some of you guys haven't noticed, and as my old man would say, women ultimately decide if things are going to progress past the flirting phase.
When you're hot you're hot. It seems like you'll go through stretches at a time where nothing's happening and you're just going through the motions. Then suddenly, typically out of nowhere, there's the vibe again. Maybe it coming from someone you've known for a while who is also been in slump and other times it's from someone you just met and you really don't know that well.
The key is the out-of-nowhere element. Typically forcing the issue leads to disaster. I don't know how many times one of my friends or myself has built up a night in our minds as the night when you finally make your move. But those nights where you just go out to have good time are the nights where something extracurricular happens with someone who is pleasing to the eye or captivates you with his or her knowledge of whatever topic you might be on that night.
Lately my old man has stressed the fact that they want it just as much as you do. Now that I think about it, he's actually been telling me that since high school, but maybe I finally believe him. Non-specific pronouns work fine in this paragraph because in my opinion it doesn't matter what side of the equation you're working on - they're both equal.
Bringing us to one of the most intriguing sociological questions of human nature. Why are females typically punished by their peers for their sexual prowess while males are rewarded or held in high regard by theirs? Slut and pimp kind of mean the same thing in the college lexicon but one is practically a slur while the other is a college form of nobility.
Oh yeah, why isn't it called the walk of shame when a guy walks home on a Saturday morning at 8 a.m. wearing the same clothes as the night before with a big grin on his face?
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