Quote: "You can only prey he stopped because of a crippling injury, rather than a disillusioned rage (as his name may suggest)"
LOL, probably both, I tore the inner bicep off curling 300 pounds, if your a Brit and pounds throw you off its 21 and a half stone, I had surgery to reattach the tendon to the forearm, then 3 months in plaster. Had to push it that far, all part of lifes journey, no regrets.
Now back to the original thread, you are going to have to bite the bullet with girls, and stick your neck out, though you may have a get out clause, in nature, the male never chases the female, the females chase the male, males only put on a display, culture has made the opposite in humans, wrongly so, it goes against natures rules. Men work, build, think, that's a man, women are sexuality, they trade sex for a mans security, in accordance to natures rules, if you put on a good enough display, they should come to you. Unfortunately for you, your probably not in a position to put on a good enough display.
Women hit the road running being at their highest value as new 'untarnished' women, men on the other hand are at their least valuable as young men, but as men and women age, women lose value, (cougar - LOL), but men gain it. When you sell sexuality, as you age, the value goes down, and lets not forget, second, third forth hand... it loses its value, like all things one posses, one poses it less the more owners its had, women also don't have the ability to have children all their lives like men do, as the clock tics, with every month, so does their chances to have children. Men on the other hand start out life valueless, and gain value as they age, gaining knowledge, experience, wisdom, security and worldliness, all things women wish to have through a man. As women haughtily reminded you as a young man of natures values of the sexes, dont forget to pay the compliment back as the tables are turned.
The movies sell the opposite of reality to pander to the public's fear and inadequacy, especially so in the entertainments of women, woman trade their sexuality for security, the rules state the better the sexuality, young, attractive, unsullied, unsullied, yes, and Ill tell you why, mothers baby, farthers maybe, you see a women knows its hers, do you? The less partners, the better the chance the woman you worked for 'all' your life and the children she bore are yours. This is natures rules, but Hollywood is not about reality, but fantasy.
The film pretty woman, nature says a young virginal maiden snares the rich man, Hollywood says a prostitute does. In reality women value security higher than romance and love, this is symbolised in the film Titanic, but rather than showing the reality, the females need for security over love is hidden by blaming the male, in this case the rich man only has love for himself and his own preservation, in reality, the rich man marries for romance, and it is the woman that marries coldly and selfishly for her own preservation. The film also has the you can have it all princess syndrome, Leonardo di Caprios character, he is poor, life with him bawdy and chaotic, the opposite of the 'secure' life of the rich man, secure, but of course it lacks passion, romance, love, and fulfilling sexuality, but this being Hollywood, the woman has it all, her princess status maintained.
Sex and the City, sex and shopping, womens favourite things, men hunt, women gather, for what is shopping if its not gathering, of course a good hunter expects good sex, this being hollywood of course, women, middle aged ugly ones at that, have no need to behave themselves and abide by natures rules, they can sleep with the whole of new york and still buy designer shoes, and what are designer shoes, but the Freudian phalluses of the act of coitus. You see it is not men that only think of sex, it is women, it is their stock in trade, and a mans. Work, build, think, are we not all here evidence of that, and where would women be without man and his civilization, still sat in the trees eating cork and moss.
Lose the nervousness, the male in nature is always the finer plumed of the sexes.