[James]

Nah, you're just reading too much into this.

9 times out of 10, I make threads in here as a reaction to something specific, rather than making a generalization (despite sometimes making comments that do, in fact, generalize). Haven't you ever heard a story about, say, a school shooting or something, and said "What the fuck is wrong with people?" You make a comment that is obviously a generalization, but in the context of your own mind, you are aware that you aren't including everyone.

In this case, a girl I know (who I don't like in that way... yet), found out that her boyfriend of two years is currently looking for a girlfriend on an online dating site. Which, needless to say, came as quite a shock to her. I've officially known too many girls who have or had shitty boyfriends.

I'm not saying that if I like a girl, and she has a boyfriend, he must be an ass. I'm not saying that money + time + affection = being boyfriend material. I'm just saying that I'm at the age where teenage romance no longer applies, and I (as well as any girl willing to have me should) demand more of myself before I consider myself able to give and get from someone what we'd both need in a serious relationship. And that also means I'm not saying that if I was so-and-so's boyfriend, I'd treat her better. I was saying that if I was someone's boyfriend, I probably WOULD end up being an asshole, for all I know.