This is a line I have heard from guys and it always makes me want to scoff and roll my eyes so hard that he would see my eyeballs disappear into the top of my eyelids and come back up from the bottom, like a rising sun, but faster. Now, before you label me a cynic or a bitter bitch or whatever choice of words you prefer, I am not saying that the words ".....don't let anyone tell you otherwise" are bad per say. They can sound really good coming from say your father, a close friend that you just opened up to about your insecurities or even from an old lady that you are buying pastries from. The point is that these people have some basis for taking on the comforting-judge-of-my-personality role either because I asked them to or because they have the experience and the skill to deliver this line in a way that it actually feels good.
Now let's come back to the guys I am talking about. Telling me - "You are really fun to talk to and never let anyone tell you otherwise." at a party. Really?? I mean that's really what I needed to hear listening to you talk about what exercises you do to target which parts of your body followed by an actual demonstration of hand-stand-push-ups.
Or some middle aged guy I mistakenly made eye contact with at an airport bar. I was just being polite and not looking for reassurance on my looks - "You are very pretty. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." Ahh...the hidden arrogance of it!! The arrogant assumption that you have the uncanny ability to notice my hard-to-notice prettiness which other will obviously miss and I should not let that get to me till the point I run into the next connoisseur of my prettiness such as yourself.
Now let's come back to the guys I am talking about. Telling me - "You are really fun to talk to and never let anyone tell you otherwise." at a party. Really?? I mean that's really what I needed to hear listening to you talk about what exercises you do to target which parts of your body followed by an actual demonstration of hand-stand-push-ups.
Or some middle aged guy I mistakenly made eye contact with at an airport bar. I was just being polite and not looking for reassurance on my looks - "You are very pretty. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." Ahh...the hidden arrogance of it!! The arrogant assumption that you have the uncanny ability to notice my hard-to-notice prettiness which other will obviously miss and I should not let that get to me till the point I run into the next connoisseur of my prettiness such as yourself.
