You mean you don't want to have sex with me?
Women aren’t used to rejection – and so they often react badly if a bloke chooses not to do the horizontal mambo with them. In fact they have been known to react violently!
Anne Sexton, 30 Oct 2009
On a Friday night my friend Damien got attacked outside a city centre pub. Ho hum, nothing particularly remarkable about that, you might think, except that the perpetrator happened to be a five foot nothing blonde with a penchant for bad spray-tan and peroxide.
The blonde was more than a little drunk and seeing as her weapon of choice was a clutch bag, Damien escaped without a scratch albeit with his dignity somewhat dented. But I suppose on some karmic level that was fair enough – after all, earlier that evening he had dented hers when she tried to kiss him and he’d responded with the not very subtle response: “Would you ever fuck off?”
The playwright William Congreve wrote “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d” and what was true in 1697 seems just as apt in 2009 – no woman likes to be rejected and many of us do not take it at all well.
A glance at the newspapers confirm this: in the last few weeks alone, an American ex-wife accused her husband of being involved with theft from a gun show, landing herself with ninety days in jail and a hundred hours of community service for making false allegations to the police; another angry woman cooked and ate her ex-boyfriend’s goldfish for revenge; and perhaps most bizarrely of all, Cristiano Ronaldo has apparently been cursed by a Spanish sorcerer, hired by someone known to the sports star. Commentators are suggesting that this may be his ex, Nereida Gallardo, who gave a series of interviews slating the footballer after he dumped her by text message.
Being dumped is never a pleasant experience. The only thing that can be said in its favour is that it happens or has happened to everyone, including yours truly, at least once. This means the average woman can turn to her friends, rail against the capriciousness of men and drown her sorrows in wine and ice cream without the need for black magic or pet-cannibalism.
Having your heart broken is well within the normal range of experiences for anyone embarking on a romantic relationship. However, what women are not used to is having our sexual advances turned down. Men, especially drunk or desperate men, rarely look a gift horse in the mouth, unless they have a very good reason to do so.
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