I wanted to take a minute and explore something for a bit:

Yesterday, a friend of mine ask (or posed a question): Do men pursue a friendship or show any interest in a woman based on sexual/physical attraction?

Obviously, this does go on a case to case basis, and there are a lot of circumstances to include. But all in all, I'd like to think that men are more open-minded than to just regard a woman as a thing. I know, speaking for myself, that I have good relationships with female friends who are/aren't attractive (to me). Now, the relationships that I'm thinking of were built on things other than my free will drawing me to them. Most of these were either forged from mutual friendships or they're my coworkers, at least for the most part. I can count a few that just slipped in there, but there's some sort of commonality there that spurred a friendship.

That being said, I also don't mind being friends with attractive women, there will always be a part of my ape brain that just likes to look at pretty faces.

I'm also the kind of person that doesn't often make new friends, because I generally don't like people. If you're someone who doesn't annoy me immediately and you have some staying power, then eventually you get passed my shell of trivial knowledge and get down to some chewy nugget.

I also can't say that if a super attractive woman approached me, and ended up being super rad, that I'd be hard pressed not to jump into the "Hey, let's get romantic." spectrum. So, that pretty much throws out all that exposition I dumped previously. So, like I said, circumstantial - and I'll take the optimistic route, though it may not always be the truth.

There was another point I wanted to touch on, since it's a tangent of this thought (sort of) that I find funny. It's a observational difference between men and women that I think is really funny and attributes more to men thinking they own and deserve more, like an innate territorial thing.

In the service/retail industry, one is expected to treat everyone nice and pleasantly, being super friendly and helpful while helping a customer part with that hard-earned cash for some trivial thing in the story/restaurant. Now, when a woman is approached by a man who's nice and friendly - they get what they want, thank them and go on their merry way. No one says anything about how the guy was making eyes or being flirty. On the other side, however, this always changes. When a woman is helping a guy and engaging in the exchange, like a normal human being would, suddenly the woman is TOTALLY into the guy and probably wants to have all of his babies and follow him to the end of the earth. Weird, right? I've dated women in the field, as well as have a lot of friends there, and it has happened to each and every one of them multiple times, sometimes going on just a smile. Hell, my first super serious relationship spawned from me thinking that my ex was really into me when she sold me a fucking movie ticket. Turns out, she didn't even remember who I was, but I had the audacity to track her down and bug her about it, and it just so happened to work in my favor (for a little while at least). And I'm even still guilty of assuming things like that TO THIS FUCKING DAY. I remember a woman smiling at me, just a little longer than usual - with eye contact and everything - and I really thought that I was in. All I had to do was make a joke and she was all mine. Turns out, I'm just as dumb as most men. She was already dating someone and I just made an ass out of myself, which is typically why I don't approach women, since I'm not great at context clues.

But that's my rant for today. I'm losing focus and I'm pretty sure a bunch of the stuff I've written has already negated other things I've strung together with words.