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Witches' Brew: Ask A Dude Roundtable: Installment Deux Electric Boogaloo

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Ask A Dude Roundtable: Installment Deux Electric Boogaloo

Your favorite Witches hosted a cyber sit down with several of the opinionated (right or wrong) fellas in our cipher and grilled them to the white meat. We're hoping these discussions can start a dialogue (In the comments section please), and foster a greater understanding between the genders. *Witches' Note- We have purposely not rebutted- even though our mouths are bleeding from biting our tongues. Now that you have met our dudes... let's get to it.





Brew Q Part Deux:
(Part Une, voici!)

Do you find the more you are living up to your potential, more likely you are to date someone that you can take seriously?

Big in Europe: Living up to your potential has absolutely nothing to do with being in a relationship. If anything, having a relationship should enhance you living up to your potential. If the person you choose to be with doesn't bring anything to the table in terms of support and understanding, then why bother at all?

Gross Dude: Yes, I think so- fellas like Trophies.. something/someone that matches where they are in life. Especially the high achieving people. If they are an exec, Dr., lawyer... we may marry another one. Unfortunately, we are still prone to keep a psycho waitress on the side. (Brewchie Note: Psycho waitresses need love too!)

Mr. Crab: Clearly...If you're working at McDonalds, you can't really expect the sexy doctor who's coming in for a McSalad and a water to really fall in love with you with all your greasy, pimply goodness oozing out --with an extra toothy smile to boot!

Reverend Real: Good question. (Brewchie note: Glad you approve, Father Real) I think so. Having been married for a few years now, I can say one huge benefit is that it keeps you focused. No sitting at work on Friday afternoon making a schedule of how you’re going to juggle your “stable” for the weekend. The more you excel at your ambitions, the more you feel the need to have someone that enables your progress.

Ask A Cash: No, I really don’t think that the two relate. You can live up to your potential and be career minded, but just date and not be committed.

SUpreme: Well, I tend to not date ANYONE I can’t take seriously. I avoid the drama, bull and games that many men & women play with each other. I don’t see the point of all the game-playing.

What's your call?

Do you think that the more a man has his 'ish together, the more successful his relationships can be or is that just another excuse to play the field? And why do men seem to equate the word "potential" with career.. hmmm?

Discuss.

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5 Comments:

At Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 4:05:00 PM EDT , Blogger Jem said...

It has everything to do with a man being able to maintain a serious relationship. When your ducks are in order, you can focus on the next thing. Men are not multi-taskers like women are. They need a moment to get their professional life right, their money life right, their house-game on point and THEN they can pursue MS. RIGHT. While we women, can be working at McDonalds, going to night school for a nursing degree, doing hair for extra money on the weekends and STILL maintain a happy home and a satisfied man. It's just how we are.

Once men get their "isht" together, then they start looking around for what's missing (read: a GOOD woman) and then they go looking.

 
At Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 4:19:00 PM EDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

so should the women that already have their ish together wait for the potentially good man to finish getting his ish together, or is it pointless because once the have reached that point the man will trade in that women for something they think is better anyway?

 
At Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 4:28:00 PM EDT , Blogger Jem said...

Well, you can look at it 2 ways:
-you should wait for anything, you should keep living your life and progressing to your own great potential and the right one will come along (that applies to men and women)

-or, you could say that if this good woman continues to live out her potential while she's in that relationship with this achieving man, then she shouldn't worry about him trading her in for something better. That's putting too much power in the hands of men. It also assumes that every man is so shallow that he'll dump you for the next hot thing.

 
At Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5:57:00 PM EDT , Blogger Brooke said...

I don't know if this is a geographical thing, but I'd like to see if anyone else has experienced what I have living in NYC. Men here work on their careers, work on them..and work on the some more. Even when they've achieved a comfortable level of success, dating is all they seem to want to do. And there's nothing wrong with that. But even the ones who claim they are looking for a good woman never seem to settle down with one because they're always looking for the next best thing. I've had men actually tell me that they're "auditioning" women, or they want to see which woman can "win" them, even if the woman is no slouch herself.

Men here, I find, want to be chased, they don't want to do the chasing. They feel they're a good catch and that you should catch THEM. While I'm not averse to going after what I want, it has to go both ways. If I bring just as much if not more to the table as you do, then why am I chasing YOU? Just my 2 cents...

 
At Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:32:00 PM EDT , Blogger Jem said...

Brooke...you ain't never lied. I'm not in NYC, but I find a lot of these dudes have lost the thrill of the chase. They'll chase for a teeny bit just to get you interested and rope you in. Then, poof, they're done. It's maddening. And I have chased but it gets me nowhere...still unmarried...still no *real* prospects. At this point, my attitude is Mr. Right will fall from the sky and land on me. Meanwhile, I keep working on "me"! That's all anyone can do.

 

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