Forum / How to pick up women.

Robert Vaughan
Jan 19, 06:06pm

Hilarious! You ought to place this one in the "Stories" thread.

Mathew Paust
Jan 22, 04:22pm

Unless your writer has a Nobel in his pants. Here's Saul Bellow on the topic: "All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

Chris Okum
Jan 22, 05:19pm

Mathew: It's not an aphrodisiac here in Los Angeles. Tell women your a writer here and you might as well vomit all over their shoes. Writer = Loser.

Ann Bogle
Jan 23, 12:45am

I took a "what kind of lesbian are you" quiz on Facebook, and I learned that I am a femme lesbian. There were only women to pick among in the quiz and one guy who held zero interest for me. So, now that I know this, I'll need to learn how to pick up women, too, and I am a novice at it. A woman who is, say, a culinary arts champion or an heiress devoted to literature (such as Bryher—Annie Winifred Ellerman) or Peggy Guggenheim might be able to turn my head, turn me around, turn me out, convert me. Typically, real lesbians apply a battery of tests to see who has paid dues and who has not. It is in some places a cult that cannot be exited without social consequence to oneself. So, to make this a little easier, how does a writer pick up a man in a bar? She starts any kind of conversation, or a man starts a conversation with her. Writer does not create a downer first impression, but it gets thick a bit later, even though she, the writer, is less than political, because men start fearing the NSA after they meet her.

Kathy Fish
Jan 23, 01:08am

Ann, this is like its own perfect little story right here.

Ann Bogle
Jan 23, 08:41pm

Federal law has changed since 2012, signed into existence by President Obama, about the definition of rape. I read about it in _Time_ in 2014. Rape is any unwanted penetration (types listed), however slight. Perhaps that inspired the male authors to consider legalese, Jane. And about lesbians, finger penetration was not allowed, not as a legal mandate but as a social one designed to disprove ideas of Freud held by certain womyn. Shaving was forbidden. Marriage of any kind was prohibited and not sought after politically or personally. Long hair had to be tied in an uncombed pony tail. If a woman leaves the cult after experiencing black female violent crime and her lover has left in a lurch to be with the abandoned one's mentor, then friendship is forbidden, and membership in womankind revoked. Do get me started! I miss about the radicals that they admitted their issues in speeches delivered outdoors at Take Back the Night. :-)

Mathew Paust
Jan 25, 09:14pm

Maybe the intent wasn't there, Adam, but you started something that's evidently driven Jane away again. On the positive side, Ann got a new post out of it.