Thursday, December 6, 2012

Estrogen, Insecurity, and Facebook

Estrogen: Women are innate investigators. We seek. We analyze. We find. Not sure of the statistics of men vs women investigators/detectives, but I'd put money on women being pretty damn good at closing cases.

Insecurity: Uncontrolled by a single hormone, both males and females are subjected to being insecure...overwhelmed by it, consumed even.

And what better to enable an insecure, investigative woman than Facebook.

Times have changed. Intuitions of infidelity are no longer left to the imagination. Thanks to technology, those intuitions are manifested into reality (or a pseudo-reality) via text messages, wall posts, subtweets, and the like.

We live in a time where it isn't enough to profess your like/love to the person you're with. Now days - for many females - a relationship isn't "official" until it's on Facebook.

How fucking absurd.

....and yet, I vaguely understand the logic.
(If created into a mathematical proof, this would make me vaguely fucking absurd, right?)

Dear Insecure-ass Woman:

If a man is going to cheat, he's going to cheat regardless of a social-network status. Women, too, for that matter. Even if this man broadcasts your relationship status to the world and collates pictures of you and him together from Day 1 of the relationship to the present and puts it in a public album, guess what...that makes him no less likely to step-out on you, boo.

Some guys will go to the extent of making the relationship status only visible to you and your friends. (That's what I call dedication, albeit a waste of valuable time.) Soooo....you're in your world of bliss because all 98 of the "Me & My Bae" pictures you've tagged him in are there for the world to see when in reality...can't nobody see that shit but you.

Tagging this man in all of your excessive amounts pictures/posts/etc is the equivalent to a dog marking his territory. In the words of @The_Madd_1, "If she gone do all that, she might as well just piss on me." Good point.

And hey....maybe this guy just isn't the same social-network butterfly you are. Let him live. If he's treating you right and doing the things to make you happy (with the exception of the Facebook thing), then BE HAPPY!!! I think that's a ridiculously simple compromise.


Why it makes (some) sense:

If this guy is social-network savvy, posts statuses n such on a regular basis, and is reluctant to accept a simple "In a relationship" status change on something he's on everyday then yeah... It would piss me off, too, I suppose.

I think it's especially funny when men claim to be so nonchalant about what goes on Facebook/Twitter, but will delete a post in a heartbeat.

IF YOU DON'T CARE, THEN WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO DELETE POSTS? (That was for you. Yes.....you, sir.)

True enough, a lot of women are insecure; but, somethings are just intuitive. In my opinion, deleting posts is like deleting evidence. But hey...that's just me. And that's also a whole different discussion.


But back to the point at hand:

If your man isn't cheating on you...your insecurity is probably going to drive him to do so...or leave.

Be blessed!