McDreamy?

Today I had a very interesting conversation with Courtney. Like most girls and women, we started talking about men. We, as women, create our idealistic man, our... Prince Charming. And though most of us realize that such a man does not exist, we still carry that ounce of hope in our hearts until the day we die. Because we know such a man exists, we settle for... what does exist. We pick and choose the most important qualities for the "man of our dreams"-- maybe he has a excellent sense of humor, or a powerful sense of responsibility, and we build this list and then, we date. In actuality, we find no man will fit all of the qualities we look for, and its rare when a man even has half of the qualities. And people will say "oh, you're setting your standards too high" but in response I say, "are we?"
Typically in nature, you find that males of a particular specie will try to woo the female of the same specie... and usually the odds are in favor of the females... thus the females can choose the mate that she sees fit. Okay there's the fact that most animals are not monogamous, yet, we as humans typically are. But considering that there are more men in this world than there are women, shouldn't there be a little bit of competition to retain a wife? Ah, now you see, that there is a sort of competition, but... when it comes down to it, men are deceitful, men are liars... men will do what they need to do to get what they want. Take Machivelli for example, in The Prince Machivelli says "the end justifies the means," of course he was talking politics, but if you really think about it, this is the code that men live by. This means that a guy will do whatever it takes to make you his--he will lie about himself to you until you've fallen right into his trap and its too late to leave. You may think, "men aren't smart enough to do something like that," but no matter how dumb they pretend to be, do not think for a second that they will not do what it takes to ensure the survival of his genes.
We're not all going to become lesbians though... because, honestly, women need men for the same reasons that men need women, among a few others. I can't even blame men for being who they are... Women, over time have given up their grandiose dreams of marriage to settle... and this settling has evolved men into who they are today. Gentlemen? Chivalrous? Far from it. It's a man's world, to be honest. But it doesn't have to be... women do not need to feel vulnerable, after all, we have what men want more than power, money or fame... we have sex. We carry the future, we are mothers. Do we need men? Yes, but we don't need to show it. Men want what they can't have... so if we stop acting so needy, you know what will happen? We're going to get what we want...