Heather LouAnna said:
Cripes. I have five. Total. Including the one reply I've sent.
Yours doesn't surprise me, though. It's just depressing to see that the internet will probably never change for the better.
Early on after I got a hold of the internet at home (and didn't have to worry about what sites I browsed, unlike the computer labs in college), I found an adult chat website (adultchatnetwork.com -- anyone remember?). I got on there, cybered pretty easily, exchanged a couple stories with someone I assumed was a woman, and started making a few chat friends.
Eventually, after seeing some of the other women admonish guys for sending them uninvited PMs, I decided to have a look myself. I'd log in with a blatantly slutty nickname ("WetTits4U" always worked
), say "hi" in the main room, and bing-bing-bing-bing... a dozen PMs would show up.
What the fuck?!? I used to want to get random PMs, but holy shit, I was glad that I didn't have to suffer like the women did. I also wondered why these guys had no clue -- were they really that stupid? Did they care that little about whomever they were addressing? Are women simply holes for their cocks?
Remember that Saturday Night Live skit where Eddie Murphy disguised himself as a white guy to see what "the other side" was like? It was like that, only not funny at all. Guys,
you have no idea what women have to put up with. Remember those annoying kids at school or out on the town that you wished would go away? That's maybe ten percent as bad as getting hundreds of uninvited PMs, emails, instant messages, and God knows what else.
And all you women... please,
please don't lose faith in the rest of us. The good guys (the ones that know that you're a whole person) are probably not going to invade your space. Don't hope that they'll notice you, because they probably know that you're getting swamped already -- you have to break the ice and let them know that they're appreciated.