You’re such an asshole, yet I find that attractive. I feel like such a stereotype! It doesn’t make any sense, I want to be treated right. Nice men also deserve supportive women like me. Lusting after bad boys is such a teenager thing, I’m 24 now!
(submitted by: Anonymous)
I am indeed an asshole, but probably not the kind you’re expecting.
RE: “I want to be treated right.”
Undoubtedly.
Then again, it’s just possible that what’s right for you is more complicated than you’d like to admit. Perhaps what you’re calling “right” is less an extension of your heart’s self-actualizing ambition than it is a fragile agreement-in-principle between your libido, your dreams, and your hard-won experience. Maybe somewhere inside you, you’re looking for a sign that you’ll someday find an asshole who cares enough to do his worst for you.
Maybe this is your sign.
Oh, and for the record?
I’m not at all a “bad boy”, nor have I ever been. Anyone expecting that sort of energy from me is doomed to disappointment. I don’t drink, I’ve never been arrested, never had an illicit drug other than weed, never been to a strip club, never had a one night stand, and never had a speeding ticket… I mean, I do own a leather jacket, so if it’s 1957 and I’m trying to date a preacher’s daughter, I guess you could say I’m bad boy adjacent.
Wait, no… the jacket’s brown. No proper hoodlum has a brown jacket. But you know who does?
Bad dads.