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Show rinciple Or, deciding that Lost Boys are a lost ccause By Monika Guendner have given up on the entire male population here in Park City. Yeah, | know all of you Y chromosome-bearers are just teary-eyed at that announcement ... but maybe you should be. Before 1 came out here, I knew about the high guy-to-girl ratio. It seemed like a pretty good deal to me; finally the situation would be in my favor. But almost from the start, I started seeing things _ and hearing things that have proven to me that things on the outside world may still be better. Let’s take, for instance, Mr. X who recently started seeing someone. iT) a a qi i | aD Te cue a ae from i a ie wl be there vith: oo Orga rote ig &Jams, ee en Se oT ce Girlfriend X is beautiful in face and roots coe body and was definitely one of the most eligible bachelorettes before going out CREDIT CENTER CREDIT PROBLEMS? a ee MN PROBLEM! “ AUTO GREDIT SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY BUYER 8 [SEPTEMBER 14, 2000/ Sede ° Confidential « Re possessions _ Double Bankruptcy No Hassles! ~ Rebuild Your Credit with the Help of the MVP Greaift Center! Se Habla Espanol cee ae Pe per <p> «yp »p willing to party, get drunk, get high or pretty much anything else than have sex. (“Can’t we just have casual, mean-— ingless sex?” she asked him. He had to think about it.) When they're not out- — right refusing sex, they have some prect- ty bad pick-up lines. Consider the Cisero’s bartender who puked behind me at Mileti’s. After I called him on that disgusting act, he was indignant that I wouldn't “give him some lovin’.” Yeah, I’m such a bitch. There’s a pathetically funny side to her. Now, less than two months later, he scans Harry O’s for other women and has already cheated on Ms. X. Peter Pans—the boys who refuse to grow up—is what one woman has labeled them. Men who want to party like they are still 21, college graduates no intentions of doing a “walk-by.” Did we regress to junior high without anyone telling me? “Did you ever notice how guys ae out at the bars together?” Christine asked me. I’ve noticed so much that I’ve - who refuse any responsibilities other than hold a service industry job and developed a theory. My guess is that lovers who would just as soon never see you again as sleep with you. havea few unfavorable experiences with women. They write off all women and was completely smitten and had spend almost the entire night just talking with ry Fi eesti Ohi: a and | have been in situations where our casual relationships were much more it too, like the two boys who argued over who was getting stalked with a late-night “walk-by” from an ex and. her friend. Trouble is, the girls were a half mile away from their houses with with X. Last time I talked to him, he For re torstin a oe Don't tell me that guys don’t get _ enough sex in this town. Both a friend But what kills me the most is the fact that most guys see themselves as the vic- tim. One guy I know has repeatedly told soon after boys arrive in town, they start hanging out with guys in the same boat. Guys who lack female companion- ship on a regular basis tend to shape me the reason he hasn’t found Ms. Right each other into creatures that discour- is because women age women from wanting them even in this town are always looking for a better next thing, S better-looking or better-connected guys. I don’t want to say this doesn’t happen, _but he recently found somebody outside of Park City to date. So what does he say — more. Then the women get ee oa or pissed on—and act oo A. vicious cycle is born. I thought about it before | decided to forego all men in this town. 1 | when another friend asks what they looked around at the men I knew and have been up to? “I’m doing her,” he the men my friends knew. | came up replies, self-satisfied in publicizing the — with only two guys who | thought fact that he is having sex. Yeah, I can’t might be outside the cycle. One isunderstand why women stay away from~ _ married with four kids, the other is. him when he says such romantic, sensiengaged. Of course... of course! tive, caring things. He publicly demandI don’t think it’s that hard to figure ed sex from his last girlfriend because he out what women want. A little respect, | had bought her dinner. Funny? Not very. a good mesh of personalities and the Even the guys who fondle women ability to say “No” when Ms. One- — outright at the bar don’t see themNight-Stand starts licking your neck.selves as womanizing. One nighta OK, maybe that’s just my list, but can | friend was approached by a local who be such a freak that I’m alone? | has a steady girlfriend, and he argued If 1 sound bitter, let me just remind — his hardest to give her “cones of you that most of these stories belong to silence” (his cupped hand on her other people. OK, I’m the alleged stalkbreast). Strangely not tempted, she er, but the rest belong to others. And to told him she liked his girlfriend too the complaint that guys utter when -much to accept the offer. He was they are feeling sorry for themselves:Y undeterred and unapologetic and cones, the women of this town can have’ tinued to hound her. Oh, but he’ 5 not their pick of men in this town—for one — a bad guy. night. But do we really have it made? “Se Ra eg |