AA: True, all that. And tall women are intimidating, too. :) I prefer the women I keep company with to be intelligent -- possibly even a little more intelligent than myself -- and have little tolerance for dumb people in general. I'm not sure whether my liking of geek-girls yet not trying to get with them is because I love their intellect but don't want to be with someone significantly smarter than me, or because I dispise anime and RPGs and think women should have good hygiene.
Pita: I've heard plenty of stupid parents say shit like that (and the concept of "get and keep a man" makes it sound like we're lake trout). When you look around, there are plenty of fat or above-average women who have a good partner. Hell, I've seen some downright obese and fugly-faced women be very popular with the menfolk (though they're not always the best menfolk). People love people for who they are first and what they look like second, and other than the shallow little jerkoffs that won't give a person the time of day if they aren't pretty the world is filled with good caring people. I've never seen a picture of you but I'm going to say now that you probably would look fine to me because I've seen your intellect (posted here) first, and that's more meaningful than size.
Clarifying a point on Amazonian: She didn't claim to lose her libido, so far as I know, but her story went that became self-conscious about her body and claimed she was not attractive after having her child, no matter how often her boyfriend told her otherwise. Having seen her :) I disagree about being ugly, she gained some stretchmarks and didn't quite lose the barrel, but otherwise she was still her Amazonian self. I think there was a bit of dishonesty instead, like she just didn't want to admit that she wasn't interested in her boyfriend anymore. When she found some young guy she liked, boom, she was a sexual being again. Funny, he'd been telling me his thoughts went in the other direction -- he still wanted her body, but it was her (the personality and mannerisms) that he couldn't deal with anymore but couldn't toss her out. :) It all worked out in the end since, as you see above, neither was happy with each other but neither could just come clean and break up.
kitty: I think both genders have their own forms of drama. But I will agree with you there are people who get wound up in what I'll call "what I should think is acceptable" and there are people who let the good times roll. (There are prissy, uptight, humor-impaired men too.) I prefer the latter since I'm constantly cracking wise, so good for you for having a sense of humor unfettered by what you should think is funny. You have to suspect that many of those people who are outraged by something in public will go home and, in private, ruminate privately on the parts they actually found funny deep-down. And ironically, the people who are sticks-in-the-mud because they believe people will think less of them for enjoying a coarse joke are really thought less of because they're just no fun to be around no matter what's going on. :)
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