This post was written a few months ago. While it may be said that I was in an anti-man phase then (and have presumably recovered now), I find the thought behind this post still holds true in my head.
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It was a hectic week. Sunday lunch at my favorite restaurant, a midnight birthday party, a movie, [...]

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You may want to feel needed,
But that’s no reason to make me feel needy.
It doesn’t say much about your masculinity,
if it feels threatened by my independence.
I’d rather be alone
than with someone who needs to change me
I’d rather be alone
than be someone other than myself.

A woman plays a bunch of roles, doesn’t she? My job defies description.
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I recently saw a movie about relationships and love. In one scene, a man and a woman meet in a department store and strike up a conversation over the cash register which continues till they walk out. Standing on the sidewalk, they talk, like any two strangers who’ve just met, of things that interest the other [...]

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I’m reading a book called Rubbish Boyfriends. But hang on, that’s not all that’s responsible for this mood o’ mine. I’ve been talking (and talking and talking) to the following women:
A has been steadily (as opposed to happily) married to a ‘Who says we get it right the first time?’ pedigree-carrier.
B is married to the [...]

Message from Friend-Man,
I got a tattoo!
I call back and yelp,
Tattoo!! Seriously?
After much detailed description (and a few conversational blind alleys regarding location and image and colour), he admits that it’s a temporary one, ending with,
I’d never get a permanant tattoo!
To which I retort,
Yeah. It needs committment. And the willingness to bear pain. Not a man’s [...]

I need love, love, love
To ease my mind
I need to find, find, find
Someone to call mine
But mama said
You can’t hurry love
You just have to wait

- ‘You can’t hurry love’ Phil Collins
But mama also says (someone else’s mama, my mum and I don’t discuss such things)…a married friend’s mama says,
Don’t expect any kind of sense for [...]

This account by HawkEye made me smile and my fingers itched to type back something acidic that only the female of our species would find funny. I desisted.
Like all urban woman, sustained on a balanced diet of chocolate, over-named cocktails and credit card bills, I’m an SATCist – a loyal fan of Sex and the [...]

And now that we know them by the cities they live in, the professions they pursue, the interests they devote their time to and the languages they speak, what’s left? The women they love of course! Here’s a look at what you can tell about a man by his favorite Bollywood pin-up.

Sushmita Sen: Isn’t it [...]

The one safety valve on a man who goes with too many women is the fact that there are a that many vindictive/resentful/unsure-about-feeling women to ally with.
I’m reminded of a conversation from Fables: The Mean Seasons between Cinderalla, Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) and Snow White that goes,
We’re like an annual meeting of his parole board, [...]

Maybe it isn’t a bad thing that men run the world. At least there are just two ways it can go – bad or worse.

Planning a rendezvous with a girlfriend. She is at the parlour and I have to wait till she gets done. I sit tight elsewhere and am most amused to hear her say,
I think it will be an hour before I’m released!!!
And if that sounds like parole from jail or release from the hospital, the real [...]

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* Ring Ring *
Hi! I just made a fantastic discovery! Call me Idea-Columbus!
What did you do now?
Remember the Bluffer’s Guide book? I just discovered that there is an entire series of them! In 2 minutes I will be the proud owner of the Bluffer’s Guide to Women, Relationships, Sex and Seduction!!!!
No kidding…I [...]

..and while we are on what I’d say, here’s more Idea-shots:
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So why bother hiding things at all then?
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Sakshi says that,
Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
The XXFactor corollary to that says,
The probability of meeting someone you don’t want to meet increases when you are with:

the person you want to show your best self to (a.k.a. [...]

I’m bored with men and their silly games. I’m tired of women and their wicked wiles.
Someone invent a new sex.
Maybe I could try romancing women and confiding in men instead. That would be like eating a bowlful of tiramisu for dinner and finishing off with a mini-burger for dessert. Then again, with a woman, one [...]