Date a girl who reads...

[persephone_20]

Re-posted from Alisha and Duncan :)

DATE A GIRL WHO READS. DATE A GIRL WHO SPENDS HER MONEY ON BOOKS INSTEAD OF CLOTHES. SHE HAS PROBLEMS WITH CLOSET SPACE BECAUSE SHE HAS TOO MANY BOOKS. DATE A GIRL WHO HAS A LIST OF BOOKS SHE WANTS TO READ, WHO HAS HAD A LIBRARY CARD SINCE SHE WAS TWELVE

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[aphephobia]

I know this probably isn't very romantic of me, but I find aspects of this thing kind of creepy and condescending rather than adorable and whimsical and quirky. Unless this was written fifty years ago and it's got historical kitsch appeal or something.

While I'd rather be involved with someone with brains, the idea of the "sexy reader girl" as a sort of fetish rubs me the wrong way in the same way that the "geek girls" fetish bothers me. I mean... why is dating her so important? Why not just enjoy someone's company and if there are sparks, so be it?

Also, there seems like there's a level of "give her taste" in there as though she needs to be given particular books by particular writers. Or like she mightn't have her own tastes and mightn't have already discovered those things for herself.

And then there's that opening bit suggesting that spending money on clothing is somehow a lesser thing than spending money on books. Maybe some "girls" (I prefer the term women, personally) enjoy bothAnd... propose to her? In this modern age,

[umbra_mentis]

See, you managed to put into words the distaste I had upon reading it - I just couldn't pin it down quite so well.
Also, I'd only date a girl who used sentence casing. Uppercase != emphasis when it's used for every single bloody word :)

[aphephobia]

I was going to say, too, if the cummings we're talking about is the ee variety, capital letters are inappropriate here and a reader of cummings would realise this. < / snark >

[umbra_mentis]

Hehe

[birkentree]

"SHE’S THE GIRL READING WHILE WAITING IN THAT COFFEE SHOP DOWN THE STREET. ... LOST IN A WORLD OF THE AUTHOR’S MAKING. SIT DOWN. SHE MIGHT GIVE YOU A GLARE, AS MOST GIRLS WHO READ DO NOT LIKE TO BE INTERRUPTED. ASK HER IF SHE LIKES THE BOOK."

Whereas in the real world...

She's the woman reading happily by herself in that coffee shop down the street... Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She'll glare at you as it's quite obvious she's doing something already and does not wish to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. Take the hint when she politely smiles and returns to reading rather than pointing out your boorish, rude and invasive behaviour before asking you to go away.

[persephone_20]

*laughs* That would be the other way of reading it.

[birkentree]

I think my especially favouritest bit would be the "Fail her.." lines. Because a girl who reads.. Has very low expectations around sex. Failure leads to climax? Really?

[persephone_20]

Yeah, that part was the part I was tempted to take straight out when I was copying and pasting it.

[damien_wise]

This is an brilliant post.
Thankyou for sharing!

Resonates with something that happened about a week ago in a social discussion with a small group...found myself saying, defensively: "Brainy girls are hot!"

[persephone_20]

*grins* What was the conversation you were having?

[sparrow_salvage]

HAI U GUYZ I MAD IT BETTA

[micheinnz]

Date a girl who knows how to use her caps lock key.