If It’s OK For Women To Propose, Why Don’t They?

[Flying Squirrel]

70. I really think you need to re-read everything that was actually said

and not what you seem to be ascribing to me.

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The OP was:

The Straight Story (47,552 posts)

If It’s OK For Women To Propose, Why Don’t They? [View all]

My response to the OP:

[div class ="excerpt"]Flying Squirrel (1,419 posts)

3. They do.

They just don't do it in a direct "Will you marry me?" way, they send subtle hints instead.
That was me. Saying that women are more likely to send subtle hints about marriage than to ask directly. Perhaps slightly stereotypical, but not IMO in a negative way - this is the post I'm talking about when I say "based on my experience."

left on green only (1,312 posts)

4. Subtle Hints Like Becoming "Accidently" Pregnant

NOT my post, someone else's post, which I completely disagree with (enough so that I in fact alerted on it myself, and found that it had already been alerted on with a 3-4 result).

Flying Squirrel (1,419 posts)

5. Well...

That did work on me. Not a good first marriage..

My post, simply stating my own personal experience but not stating or implying that this was a common thing - just that it did in fact happen to me, which means it's more common than winning the lottery 'cause god knows that's never gonna happen.

In other words, you're saying that I said women in general often trap men into marriage via pregnancy -- something I NEVER said or implied. In fact I think it's pretty rare because otherwise I would not have been so shocked when it happened to me.

I don't really want to argue with you but I don't like someone misconstruing my words outright, which is what is happening here.

I probably shouldn't have even responded to his post, but that just because I did respond to it and acknowledged that what he was saying actually did happen to me, does not mean I liked his post or agreed with it, or thought that my single experience was any kind of an indication that this was a common thing.