Loyola Greyhound

Issue date: 3/17/09 Section: Opinion

On a lighter, more selfish note, it's also confusing as hell for the guys. Do girls understand how hard it is to keep track of them when they can change their hair or complexion or entire body appearance at will? Guys generally aren't the sharpest tools in the shed; I see long blond hair, blue eyes, medium-sized body, and I react with a "Hi, [insert name of about 37% of the girls on campus]." When girls decide to dye their hair and strap on the goggles, men literally cannot keep track of the girls they know and those they don't. What women consider rudeness or arrogance is probably just ignorance.

It's also absurdly confusing when you sleep over with a girl, maybe after a drunken night, and wake up in the morning in an alien room with strange posters and a girly smelling blanket. And then you look to your left, and there's someone there who looks completely different than the person you went to bed with! All the makeup's worn off over the course of the night, and you find yourself trying to awkwardly reintroduce yourself to a person whom, in actuality, you've been going out with for two months.

The biggest lie, though, women tell themselves. How many of you dream of being trophy wives, coasting through life on your beauty on the coattails of some doctor, lawyer, drug kingpin, or any other men who have used their mind to get ahead in life? Many girls don't want to rely on their intelligence or personality, or worse, feel that it's inadequate. As a result, girls hide from life behind makeup and plastic surgery and Botox like life-sized Barbies, afraid to fail or succeed on their own. And that, ladies, is the worst crime of all.

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