Dryope wrote:So basically Gary didn't care about any of those other girls as people, only as what they could do for him carnally. And they rejected him so gosh golly they must be terrible people. What a cad. Hey, maybe they have feelings too! Maybe they weren't ready for a physical relationship! Let's blame it all on their religion. At least saying you want to wait until marriage weeds out most of the creeps who are only interested in your body. There are always some who think they can chaaaange you, that if they completely disrespect your wishes and beliefs you'll give in (and what, be happy about the fact they pressured you into something you weren't ready for?) Thank you, no. Hopefully those poor girls dealt with as little of that as possible and found boys who actually cared about them as people.
I'm confused. What in the strip made you think that Gary acts that way? Because if he were as insensitive as that, I don't think that the girls would mess with him, just to frustrate him. It would be really uncool if you play around with somebody's mind when at the same time you want respect.
So what you're saying is valid in general, but I highly doubt that that's how it went down in Gary's life. Because the way he is, he probably wasn't actively pursuing girls. Remember, he hasn't even held hands, so no girlfriend. Since he can't even work up to that part, what makes you think he would be thinking just on getting some? So I think girls might have played him for a fool (that's his fault too, for not stopping the BS), laughing behind his back, and maybe even openly.
In order for somebody to care for other persons as people, the other person has to show you some real parts of herself. It could be that these girls didn't even do that.
He said they played "mind games" with him. That could just have been his own insecurities molding his perception of others' actions, or maybe they really did just like to screw with his head. Either way, we can't know for sure.
OK, I hadn't seen it that way... But if the problem was Gary's distorted perspective, he was just being too naive, and I don't think that he was doing anything but playing it straight (I am attracted to this girl, what to do about it?). My problem right now is what type of "game" he is talking about. Because we haven't even established if he has gone on dates or not.