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		<title>How You Feel Doesn&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's say I tell you the grass is green, and you don't like the fact that the grass is green... Your NOT LIKING the fact that the grass is green doesn't change the color of the grass.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2012/05/02/how-you-feel-does-not-matter/"></g:plusone></div><p>Here&#8217;s the deal.  There are two things going on right now.. There&#8217;s:</p>
<p>a) What&#8217;s happening, and</p>
<p>b) How you feel about what&#8217;s happening.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not able to separate the two, you&#8217;re screwed, because your perception doesn&#8217;t necessarily match up with anyone else&#8217;s reality. <span id="more-10935"></span></p>
<h3>Facts</h3>
<p>For instance.. Let&#8217;s say I tell you the grass is green, and you don&#8217;t like the fact that the grass is green&#8230; Your NOT LIKING the fact that the grass is green doesn&#8217;t change the color of the grass.</p>
<p>This is what I detest so much about a lot of conversations I have with people.  They&#8217;re not able to separate how they feel from actual fact.</p>
<p>The only possible rebuttals to &#8220;The grass is green&#8221; are &#8220;No, The grass is red&#8221; or &#8220;There *IS* no grass&#8221;.</p>
<p>You either have facts that disprove what I&#8217;m saying, or you don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Nobody cares what you think or feel about the facts.</p>
<p>If you feel like this is Mars, nobody cares, because this is Earth.</p>
<p>I hate being sidetracked into babysitting grown-ass people&#8217;s feelings when they feel hurt about something and it brings our previously intellectual discussion to a grinding halt.</p>
<h3>Politics</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of a politician or a political party, and the fact of the matter is that your candidate will say *ANYTHING* he or she has to say in order to try to get elected, the rebuttal to &#8220;Your candidate has no moral core beliefs&#8221; is not &#8220;You&#8217;re hating, because you&#8217;re not a member of our political party&#8221;.</p>
<p>How you feel about your candidate doesn&#8217;t change the facts.  Especially if they&#8217;re on videotape and youtube and can be accessed any day at any time.</p>
<p>Either say &#8220;You&#8217;re wrong because [provable facts]&#8220;, or give up the ghost that I&#8217;m right, so we can move on.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t go haywire and start talking about irrelevant stuff that has nothing to do with how wack your candidate is.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d rather not talk to you at all than waste my time doing mechanic work on your malfunctioning brain.</p>
<h3>Dating</h3>
<p>If a woman says she&#8217;s not giving it up to someone she&#8217;s supposedly &#8220;dating&#8221;, and then I say &#8220;If he&#8217;s not getting it from you, he either doesn&#8217;t require it in his life, or he&#8217;s getting it from another chick&#8221;, it&#8217;s in her best interests to absorb that information and add it to her set of possibilities.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a reason why Monica was under the desk, Capisce? >:D</p>
<p>If your boyfriend&#8217;s saying he wants to do XYZ and you&#8217;re like &#8220;Nah&#8221;, good for you&#8230; *AND* recognize that he&#8217;s not waiting for you to achieve some sort of epiphany and decide that you suddenly like doggy-style or whatever&#8230; He&#8217;s gonna &#8220;Get in where he fit in&#8221;.</p>
<p>How you feel about that doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p>The facts don&#8217;t change because you don&#8217;t like them.</p>
<p>The grass is still green, and the sky is still blue, regardless of how you feel.</p>
<h3>Business</h3>
<p>If you pursue a career in an industry, you have to be realistic about your chances, opportunities, and skills.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to paint yourself into a corner, thinking that you&#8217;re better than you are at something, and then finding out down the line that you had inadequately assessed the situation.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it&#8217;s also easy to psych yourself out, thinking that you *CAN&#8217;T* do something that you actually could have done if you would have diligently applied yourself to learning your craft, networking, and making people aware of what you&#8217;re bringing to the table, and why they should hire you.</p>
<p>In both situations, how you feel doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p>You can use how you feel to fuel you past what you ordinarily would have done, but how you feel won&#8217;t actually make you a better guitarist, singer, dancer, or accountant.</p>
<p>Also, if you get poor reviews for something you&#8217;re doing, strive to not let that take you out of the game, if your goal is to excel in that area of your life.</p>
<p>Learn to separate facts from your feelings about the facts, so you can make an educated decision about whether to continue on the same path or deviate.</p>
<h3>Focus</h3>
<p>The point is.. Even though how you feel matters to you, you&#8217;re a fool if you believe it matters to anyone else.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s POSSIBLE that it matters to them, but it isn&#8217;t DEFINITE.</p>
<p>Even if it matters to them or they care what you think or feel, that doesn&#8217;t mean that how either of you feels is going to override reality.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that you believe you can hit a 95 mph fastball.. if you can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that the pitcher believes you can&#8217;t hit it&#8230; if you can.<br />
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		<title>Unequal Relationships</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the nature of relationships dictates that people ACT AS IF they're equals, even if it's clear that they aren't.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2012/04/04/unequal-relationships/"></g:plusone></div><p>I&#8217;m not aware of many equal relationships.  Most of them consist of one person that was sweating another person, and then the sweatee agreed to date the sweater.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not to say that equal relationships don&#8217;t exist.  I&#8217;m sure there are lots of them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just saying that in most cases, one person has more power in the relationship than the other one does, regardless of whether the &#8220;stronger&#8221; person utilizes that power against the &#8220;weaker&#8221; one or not. <span id="more-10916"></span></p>
<h3>Roles</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s imperative that you understand your position in your relationship.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re the sweater, make sure that you remember that you&#8217;re lucky to be in this relationship, because the sweatee didn&#8217;t forget it and will not fail to remind you if you overstep your boundaries.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like sometimes people work in the same office, so they&#8217;re coworkers&#8230; Except one person is the boss and the other person is the employee.  They&#8217;re in the same place, but they don&#8217;t have the same amount of power in their relationship.</p>
<p>Now.. If the boss elects not to ensure that the employee takes exactly one hour or less to eat lunch, the boss has that right, and the employee can do whatever he or she wants.</p>
<p>However.. If the employee demands an hour and a half for lunch, because they got all comfortable with the boss not &#8220;bossing&#8221;, not only don&#8217;t they have any power to enact that policy without getting their pay docked every day for 30 minutes worth of time that they wasted when they were supposed to be working, but they &#8216;might could&#8217; get fired.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the nature of relationships dictates that people ACT AS IF they&#8217;re equals, even if it&#8217;s clear that they aren&#8217;t.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s such a good idea.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying the leader in the relationship should act like a jerk or assert their power over the follower, but when followers start &#8216;feeling themselves&#8217; and encroaching on the decision-making territory of the leader, it&#8217;s probably a good idea to subtly and graciously remind them what time it is before they get themselves fired.</p>
<h3>Shot-Callers</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m sure some people are thinking &#8220;Why would someone date someone they didn&#8217;t consider their equal?&#8221;</p>
<p>That would be because people want what they want from relationships, and equality might be irrelevant to them.. especially compared to sayyyyyy&#8230; looks, money, sex, food, shelter, status, trickin&#8217; and takin&#8217; them skiing in The Aspens.</p>
<p>Swimmin&#8217; in Women wit&#8217; they own Condominiums. It&#8217;s all about the Benjamins. What? o_O</p>
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<p>Anyway, there are lots of reasons why people hook up with and date people they don&#8217;t consider to be anywhere near their equals in life.</p>
<p>Since people don&#8217;t usually say &#8220;You know I&#8217;m better than you, right? :D&#8221; and still have a relationship left, they tend to keep it under the hat until the follower goes overboard with the rights they think they have because they saw a movie about relationships one time, or they heard something from a friend about the way their relationship &#8220;should&#8221; be, and they believed the hype and fell for the okey-doke.</p>
<p>I would hope that the lucky party would retain a sense of their place in the relationship and not put themselves in the awkward position of having to be reminded, but that&#8217;s not always the case.</p>
<p>I would also hope that when they cause the leader to reprimand them, they recognize that an admonishment is a vote of confidence in them which says that they can return to their rightful place and continue this relationship&#8230; It could have been worse, with the leader ejecting, and then the follower&#8217;s back to square one, looking for love on <a href="http://www.pof.com/" rel="nofollow">Plenty Of Fish</a> and <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/" rel="nofollow">ok Cupid</a>.</p>
<p>Of course, followers can improve their station through loyalty, functionality, putting their best foot forward, looking good, staying in shape, paying attention to what the leader likes, cooking good food, being intelligent and witty, and generally endearing themselves to the leader.</p>
<p>However, since they weren&#8217;t TOLD that they&#8217;re the follower, they&#8217;re not likely to do their best to stay in the game.</p>
<p>None of this actually comes to light so long as both parties play their positions.  It only becomes an issue when the person without say in the relationship attempts to assert himself or herself.</p>
<h3>Power</h3>
<p>Often, it&#8217;s not so much that one person has power over the other one, but that one person has *NO* power over the other one.  This happens when one or more of the parties is autonomous.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autonomy" rel="nofollow">merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autonomy</a></p>
<p>1: the quality or state of being self-governing; especially : the right of self-government<br />
<strong>2: self-directing freedom and especially moral independence</strong><br />
3: a self-governing state</p></blockquote>
<p>See.. If someone self-directs their freedom, there&#8217;s nothing you can do to control them, or really even to influence them.</p>
<p>All you can do is inspire them to do you favors though your own actions and ways of being towards them.</p>
<p>Anything they do for you isn&#8217;t because you compelled them to, but because out of the goodness of their hearts, they felt you deserved it.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t make any power moves against them, because that would require&#8230; power.. which you don&#8217;t have.</p>
<p>Some people don&#8217;t react well to realizing they&#8217;re second-class citizens in their own relationship.  Everybody wants to believe they&#8217;re on top of their game, but that&#8217;s clearly impossible.</p>
<p>If that were the case, everybody would be hooked up, and nobody would be <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/12/08/its-all-in-the-game-online-dating/">online dating</a>.</p>
<p>However, these people often don&#8217;t bounce, because they don&#8217;t feel like starting all over, and they believe that they&#8217;re the leader&#8217;s equal anyway, so they think they can work their way &#8220;back&#8221; into a position of authority, which, in fact, they never held.</p>
<p>This continues until the follower feels once again that he or she can make demands, and then they find out that nothing&#8217;s different from the last time they tried this.</p>
<h3>Jeeves</h3>
<p>The three landing positions for this situation are that the follower stops being annoying, the leader dumps the follower, or the follower ejects to attempt to find a relationship with someone that considers them an equal or better.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no point in the leader informing the follower of his/her position in the relationship, so long as everything the follower wants to do is the exact same thing the leader would have suggested anyway.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like successful back-seat driving.</p>
<p>When people think of back-seat drivers, they think of someone that doesn&#8217;t have their hands on the wheel, so whatever they say doesn&#8217;t really matter.  The driver&#8217;s going to do whatever he/she wants to do, regardless.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a little different when the driver is the chauffeur.<br />
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		<title>Dating Instinct [Hunters, Part 16]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend to take a lot of pictures with a lot of different women. One of the funny side effects of that is that guys assume that the women are random. In fact, I&#8217;m in very few pictures with women I don&#8217;t personally know. I just happen to know a lot of women. This is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2011/05/31/dating-instinct-hunters-part-16/"></g:plusone></div><p><a href="http://billcammack.com/"><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/BC_LC.jpg" alt="BC &#038; LC" width="250" style="float:left" /></a>I tend to take a lot of pictures with a lot of different women.</p>
<p>One of the funny side effects of that is that guys assume that the women are random.</p>
<p>In fact, I&#8217;m in very few pictures with women I don&#8217;t personally know.</p>
<p>I just happen to know a lot of women.</p>
<p>This is what happens when you have <a href="http://facebook.com/BillCammack">2,800 Facebook Friends</a>&#8230; Statistically, that means that there are approximately 1,400 women that count as actual friends of mine, acquaintances, women I&#8217;ve spent time with, women I was introduced to by mutual friends, and women that are <a href="http://billcammack.com/">fans of mine</a>. <span id="more-10135"></span></p>
<h3>There Go Some Chicks! :D</h3>
<p>What&#8217;s funny about this misperception is that every once in a while, some guy I know will say something to the effect of &#8220;There go five girls over there.. Go take pictures with them! :D&#8221;</p>
<p>Now.. That&#8217;s not impossible for <a href="http://billcammack.com/">The Kid</a>, but it all depends on whether the chicks are feelin&#8217; me or not (or, at least one of them is).</p>
<p>I can tell this immediately, because my dating instinct is on-point and most guys don&#8217;t have it like that.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s one of the reasons they call hooking up with a chick &#8220;Getting Lucky&#8221;.  It&#8217;s luck.  They don&#8217;t know how they did it.  Most of the time, they didn&#8217;t DO anything at all.  They were in the right place at the right time and she was drunk enough so she made out with him.</p>
<p>For most guys, that counts as luck.  For me, once I&#8217;m around a gal a few times, I know instinctively what state she&#8217;s in.</p>
<p>She might walk in the door in &#8220;I don&#8217;t give a damn about Bill&#8221; state, but several drinks from now, she&#8217;s going to be in &#8220;Feel Bill Up&#8221; state or &#8220;Hook up with any available guy she happens to be attracted to&#8221; state.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not luck.  It&#8217;s knowledge, timing and accuracy.</p>
<p>So, it&#8217;s always funny to me when dudes point chicks out to me and think that I can do magic tricks. haha It honestly ain&#8217;t that type-a party. :D</p>
<p>If I look over and determine in a few seconds that I have an &#8220;in&#8221;, I might go over there.  Otherwise, I won&#8217;t be taking any action, because kickin&#8217; it to chicks that aren&#8217;t interested in you isn&#8217;t worth your time <span style="font-size:1%"><em>unless she has an incredible ass.</em></span></p>
<p>Basically, when it comes to dating, there are only three types of women:</p>
<ol>
<li>She&#8217;s not attracted to you.</li>
<li>She&#8217;s attracted to you and trying to hide that from you.</li>
<li>She&#8217;s attracted to you and down with the program.</li>
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<p>The only question is whether you can detect that or not so you know how to efficiently interact with her.</p>
<h3>Efficiency</h3>
<p>If she&#8217;s already sweating you, it&#8217;s your game to lose.  You really don&#8217;t have to do anything other than NOT be a jerk and you&#8217;ll eventually get on.. In most cases, sooner, rather than later.</p>
<p>If she&#8217;s trying to front like she doesn&#8217;t like you, that&#8217;s cool too.  She probably has some kind of &#8220;protect my heart&#8221; reasons for not telling you what you already know about her.  In those situations, your goal in life is to figure out WHY she&#8217;s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmHpBbYHXg" rel="nofollow">frontin&#8217; on the Jimmy</a>, so you can help her get over it and y&#8217;all can get down to the nitty-gritty.</p>
<p>If she&#8217;s not attracted to you, that&#8217;s the only time you actually have to put in real work to get on.  In most cases, it&#8217;s not worth the effort, because attractive gals in this town get offered male attention all day, every day, and if she&#8217;s not already paying you any attention, there probably isn&#8217;t much you can do to get her interested in you without investing major time, effort, and perhaps money.</p>
<p>This is where instinct comes in.  You&#8217;re better off kickin&#8217; it to the slightly-less-attractive chick that&#8217;s sweating you than the slightly-better-looking gal that doesn&#8217;t give a damn that you&#8217;re standing 10 feet away from her at the bar or apartment party.  If you can&#8217;t tell which is which, you end up wasting a bunch of time, barking up the wrong tree.</p>
<p>The way you can tell what she&#8217;s thinking/feeling is that she gets an extra energy when you&#8217;re around her or talking to her.  If you can naturally perceive that or you know what that looks like, it&#8217;s pretty obvious.  Someone may as well have painted her bright orange.</p>
<p>She gets nervous or she laughs too much at your stupid jokes that you know damned well aren&#8217;t anywhere near that funny, or she keeps hanging around after you stupidly let the conversation lull because you don&#8217;t know what the **** you&#8217;re doing.</p>
<h3>Perfect Practice Makes Perfect</h3>
<p>So.. Besides making your strategy list of the order in which you&#8217;re going to approach women based on their physical attractiveness, you need to simultaneously create a list based on how interested each gal seems to be in you before you even step to her.</p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t detect this type of stuff, your rap game is basically a shot in the dark.. a LUCK SHOT in the dark, at that.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t already have it, the only way you&#8217;ll develop it is by trial &#038; error&#8230; Decide whether you think a woman is interested in you or not and then go introduce yourself to her and see what happens.</p>
<p>Eventually, you should start making more educated guesses at your chances.</p>
<p>In the sticks, introducing yourself to women that aren&#8217;t already sweating you might be a high-percentage play, but not in NYC&#8230; Women are basically worn out by the number of times guys try to hook up with them in stores, in the street, on public transportation, at work, at parties, in bars&#8230; Even though there are <a href="http://billcammack.com/">too many women in this town</a>, which makes it <a href="http://billcammack.com/">tough for them to get boyfriends</a>, there are also too many dudes in this town that they don&#8217;t want to hook up with that are trying to bag them.</p>
<p>So.. In the interest of energy conservation, you should start practicing and honing your skills ASAP&#8230; The Dating Game is much more fun when you only kick it to bright orange chicks! >:D</p>
<p>Unless, of course, she happens to be from New Jersey, and that&#8217;s just her spray-tan. :/<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson has done it again. :) Once again, his PR team has to go into crisis management / damage control mode because he was running his mouth while he thought he wasn&#8217;t being recorded. Amongst the myriad things to be learned from this, according to examiner.com, Mel dropped this gem on his ex-girlfriend, Oksana [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2010/07/02/synthetic-people-mel-gibson-has-a-point/"></g:plusone></div><p><img style="float:left" title="Mel Gibson &#038; Oksana Grigorieva"  alt="Mel Gibson &#038; Oksana Grigorieva" src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID39025/images/Mel_Gibson_and_ex_girlfriend_Oksana.jpg" width="300">Mel Gibson has done it again. :)</p>
<p>Once again, his PR team has to go into crisis management / damage control mode because he was running his mouth while he thought he wasn&#8217;t being recorded.</p>
<p>Amongst the myriad things to be learned from this, according to <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-39025-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m7d1-Mel-Gibson-goes-on-new-shocking-racist-rant-against-exgirlfriend-Oksana">examiner.com</a>, Mel dropped this gem on his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Look what you did to me&#8230; look what you are&#8230; look what every part of you is&#8230; f**king fake&#8230; f**king fake. You are the most synthetic person&#8230; who the f*** are you?&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Now, hahahaha Being that I don&#8217;t know her at all and never even heard of her before this story broke the other day, I don&#8217;t know exactly what Mel&#8217;s referencing&#8230; <span id="more-8498"></span></p>
<p>He COULD very well be saying that PHYSICALLY, she&#8217;s synthetic as far as the various procedures that women (and some men also) undergo to make themselves look better in their own eyes or other people&#8217;s eyes.</p>
<p>I have elected to adopt &#8220;Synthetic&#8221; as a personality-based term.  &#8220;You&#8217;re the most synthetic person&#8230; who the hell *ARE* you? O_o&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthetic" rel="nofollow">Synthetic (Webster&#8217;s):</a> 4b: devised, arranged, or fabricated for special situations to imitate or replace usual realities.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I really enjoy that term and I&#8217;m going to start using it regularly. :)  &#8220;Fake&#8221; is one thing.. Like as in &#8220;You&#8217;re not really who you said you were&#8221; or &#8220;You&#8217;re not really who you THINK you are&#8221;.  Synthetic, to me, implies deliberate attempts to make people believe one thing when you know damned well that the opposite is true or that &#8220;nothing&#8221; is true.. An example being someone pretending to be happy about something when they&#8217;re actually mad about it or pretending to be happy when they&#8217;re neutral about it and couldn&#8217;t possibly care any less one way or the other.</p>
<p>I like &#8220;Synthetic&#8221; because it implies to me that I can see your deliberate attempt at fakery and that makes you look even worse than if I considered you misguided or confused.</p>
<h3>Synthetic People</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s tough to spot synthetic people.  It&#8217;s especially tough in New York City, where so many people need to Act As If in order to get ahead.  Things work in the reverse of the proper order here.  The way you act determines how people perceive you which turns into tangible opportunities for you to do what you claimed to have done all along.  In other places, this works in the correct order where you do something or actually ARE a certain way, people recognize that, give you credit and offer you opportunities based on who you really are.</p>
<p>The way I figure out what time it is is by paying attention to how people act in different situations.  If you can decipher their motives, you can create a mental graph of how they&#8217;re likely to behave depending on how much they think they can stand to benefit from trying to use you.</p>
<p>For instance.. If a gal knows you want to spend time with her and her actual motive is to network and meet people that you&#8217;re already friends with, she&#8217;ll react differently to an invitation to hang out one-on-one than she will to an invitation to hang out at some large party where she knows you know 60 people that are planning to show up.  This also works if you change plans, like you tell her you&#8217;re going to X party, but then you change the plan to go somewhere you can get to know each other better without incessant interruptions.  If she doesn&#8217;t give a flying **** about getting to know you, she&#8217;s gonna bail as soon as she realizes she won&#8217;t be able to use you for networking&#8230; Good Riddance to Bad Garbage. >:D</p>
<h3>Ulterior Motives</h3>
<p><img width="300" style="float:left" src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/BC_LC.jpg" alt="BC &#038; LC" title="BC &#038; LC" />I just heard about another example from a homegirl of mine while I was in the process of writing this post.  She says something to the effect of &#8220;Girls are easier to &#8216;take with&#8217; than guys&#8221;.  That didn&#8217;t make any sense to me, because as long as a) The females in the group are HAWT and b) you have more females than males, you can get in anywhere you want in this city.  An attractive chick on your arm is literally the key to the NYC nightlife.</p>
<p>When I asked her what she was talking about, she said how guys invite her to parties and then balk when she says she wants to bring a guy with her.  That&#8217;s because she didn&#8217;t understand their motives for inviting her in the first place.  Nobody cares about her coming to a party and having a good time.  They&#8217;re going to invite her so they can try to get on or so they can look cool for inviting a hawt chick to a party.</p>
<p>If she brings a dude with her, she automatically diminishes the props of the guy that invited her.  His &#8216;pull&#8217; is zero.  HIs addition to the party is zero.  He invited a chick, but she&#8217;s less likely to hook up with HIM (which is the most important thing) or any of the other guys at the party because she brought her own entertainment.  He would have been better off not inviting her at all becasue a) it doesn&#8217;t make him look good and b) even if she&#8217;s NOT dating the guy she brought, he&#8217;s just afforded that guy access to the OTHER chicks at the party so if he pulls one of them that a friend of his wanted, he&#8217;s gonna get screamed on for screwing up his boy&#8217;s action.</p>
<p>Again.. Recognizing this requires accurately assessing someone&#8217;s motives in inviting you somewhere.  If a guy invites a gal somewhere and then balks if she asks him if she can bring a guy, you know what time it is.  He was only trying to set up an opportunity to **** her and if that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s going on, he&#8217;d rather not see her around at all&#8230; Otherwise, what difference does it make? O_o  If he&#8217;s inviting her so she can have a good time and enjoy herself, wouldn&#8217;t that be enhanced if she could bring her friend(s), regardless of how many of them are guys?.. Get a clue.</p>
<h3>Synthetic Relationships</h3>
<p>The typical concept of relationships is that it&#8217;s two people on the same page, going in the same direction, wanting the best out of life for themselves and each other.  Sometimes, that&#8217;s not the case at all, but instead, it&#8217;s two people that figured out that they can use the other person to fulfill their own agenda whether that works for their SO or not.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, people aren&#8217;t wiling to admit that they&#8217;re in synthetic relationships.  If you ask people, they either say they&#8217;re in a relationship or they&#8217;re single.  There&#8217;s no qualification given to the state or quality (or lack thereof) of their relationship.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with synthetic relationships.. except that they fall apart as soon as one of the participants gets a better version of what the relationship was providing them from someone else.  If a guy&#8217;s with a gal just because he likes her ass, as soon as he has access to a gal with a better ass, he&#8217;s outta there.  If a gal&#8217;s with a guy because he&#8217;s buying her stuff, she&#8217;s gone as soon as a richer guy offers to support her.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s assuming that these people bounce from the relationships at all. :D  There&#8217;s really no reason to leave a synthetic relationship because it&#8217;s better to have TWO chicks with nice asses or TWO guys that pay for everything instead of just one.  Besides, if one of them find out what&#8217;s going on, who cares? \o/ You still have the other one(s).</p>
<p>The obvious problem here is when people don&#8217;t realize they&#8217;re in relationships like this and they think it&#8217;s real.  All I can say about that is if you find out this is the case, make sure you don&#8217;t fly off the handle like Mel, &#8217;cause you might be the next one in the tabloids! :D</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Smooth pointed out to me that JIll Scott had this to say in Essence Magazine: &#8220;My new friend is handsome, African-American, intelligent and seemingly wealthy. He is an athlete, loves his momma, and is happily married to a White woman. I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. But something in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2010/04/05/jill-scott-essence-magazine/"></g:plusone></div><p><a href="http://illdoctrine.com/" rel="friend met colleague">Jay Smooth</a> pointed out to me that JIll Scott had this to say in <a href="http://www.essence.com/relationships/commentary_3/commentary_jill_scott_talks_interracial.php" rel="nofollow">Essence Magazine</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;My new friend is handsome, African-American, intelligent and seemingly wealthy. He is an athlete, loves his momma, and is happily married to a White woman. I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. But something in me just knew he didn&#8217;t marry a sister. Although my guess hit the mark, when my friend told me his wife was indeed Caucasian, I felt my spirit&#8230;wince.&#8221; [<a href="http://www.essence.com/relationships/commentary_3/commentary_jill_scott_talks_interracial.php" rel="nofollow">Read more of Jill's article...</a>]</p></blockquote>
<p>For more context, here&#8217;s a video of what she had to say on CNN:</p>
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<p>Now, I was going to let this topic slide because I don&#8217;t care.  However..  Sensing that we&#8217;re going to have some more <a href="http://billcammack.com/?s=%22sex+addiction%22">fake Sex Addict claims</a> in the near future, I may as well break up my ongoing coverage of that topic with something else.</p>
<h3>Disclaimers</h3>
<p>First of all, let me say that I understand what Jill&#8217;s saying and I understand from reading what she wrote and listening to her in the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK3t0mMxQi4">video clip</a> I posted above why she feels hurt about the situation. <span id="more-8050"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://billcammack.com/" title="Bill Cammack"><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/unforgivable.jpg" style="float:left" width="300"></a>Second of all, which is really honestly first of all, let me say that I&#8217;m aware that I&#8217;m the last one that should have any opinion on black women at all.</p>
<p>Everybody that&#8217;s seen me in action knows how I roll.  Of the gals I&#8217;ve messed with, the percentage of them that have been black is relatively close to 0% >:D</p>
<p>I think that covers all the disclaimers, so let&#8217;s discuss Jill&#8217;s topic, which specifically spoke about white chicks and black dudes.</p>
<h3>Statistics</h3>
<p>We live in the United States of America.. In the year 2010 AD.  Unless you live in an all-minority neighborhood and go to all-minority schools and work at all-minority jobs, MOST of the people you come into contact with in this country are going to be white.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census,_2000" rel="nofollow">2000 United States Census&#8221;</a>, 75.1% of respondents said they were white, while 12.3% said they were black.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say we evened that out to 50% white and 50% black people across the board.  That means that a black chick has the same chance as a flipped coin landing on either heads or tails to be selected by ANY GUY to mess with or get into a relationship.  Even if the numbers were EVEN, there is NO CIRCUMSTANCE where a black female is 100% guaranteed to get the rap from a guy merely due to the fact that he happens to be black as well.</p>
<p>I think this is the main problem with Jill&#8217;s argument.  Like I said, I understand why she feels the way she feels, but it&#8217;s entirely unreasonable to expect that guys are going to ignore 75% of women or 3 out of every 4 women in this country because their skin is a different color.</p>
<p>Do you know how hard guys have to work to get laid in this country? :D  This whole thing is ridiculous.  It&#8217;s not new, either.  I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s getting attention now that <a href="http://www.essence.com/relationships/commentary_3/commentary_jill_scott_talks_interracial.php" rel="nofollow">Jill brought it up</a>, so maybe people will discuss this rationally and women that are being affected by this might be able to attain some enlightenment &#038; closure and move on.</p>
<h3>Life Isn&#8217;t Fair</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m 5&#8217;9&#8243;.  Thanks to all the drugs they&#8217;ve been putting in the meat for the last ten years, there are lots of chicks that are taller than I am.  There are lots of chicks that don&#8217;t want to date guys that are shorter than they are.  What do you want me to do about that?  Cry?  Complain?  Talk about <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/02/17/life-isnt-fair/">how unfair life is</a>?  Wear platform shoes like Prince?  What do you want me to do? :D</p>
<p>It&#8217;s ridiculous!  There are lots of chicks that are 5&#8217;9&#8243; and shorter that would love to hook up with me, so a brotha gotsta GET IN where he FIT IN.  That&#8217;s how life works.  Similarly, if you see a black dude with a white chick, that doesn&#8217;t mean YOU could have pulled him even IF he only dated black chicks to begin with.  You still would have had to fend off, what?.. 30,000,000 OTHER black females?.. Good Luck.</p>
<p>The thing that I find laughable about this situation is the chicks that talk all this **** when they weren&#8217;t trying to give you any in the first place. :D  Seriously.. Listen, ladies.. If you&#8217;re not tryin&#8217;na hook up with a dude, nobody cares what your opinion is.  Nobody.  Your argument has GOT. TO. BE. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t hook up with that white chick, I&#8217;ll give you some&#8221;.  If it&#8217;s not YOU, it&#8217;s gonna have to be a good-looking homegirl of yours.</p>
<p>Seriously.  It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re saying &#8220;Don&#8217;t buy that pretzel from that vendor&#8221; and then we don&#8217;t and then you&#8217;re there like &#8220;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;.  What am I supposed to do?  Starve?  Because *YOU* came up with the stupid idea for me NOT to do something without offering me a preferable alternative?</p>
<h3>Does Race Matter?</h3>
<p>While I&#8217;m on the topic, a female friend of mine, who of course is white, asked me something to the effect of &#8220;Does race even matter in tech?&#8221;, adding &#8220;I don&#8217;t know the race of a person I&#8217;m talking to on the phone or over the internet&#8221;.  The reason she asked me this is that I had been explaining to her about a situation which caused James Andrews to write <a href="http://jamesandrews.tv/kanyed-at-sxsw-2010" rel="nofollow">&#8220;How We Were Kanye&#8217;d At SXSW 2010 And Why It Was Wrong&#8221;</a> which Faith Dow responded to with <a href="http://actsoffaithblog.com/forget-kanye-how-james-andrews-key-influencer-ogilvy-made-me-the-taylor-swift-of-sxsw-interactive">This Post</a> and <a href="http://actsoffaithblog.com/wheres-the-blacks-in-tech-tape-ogilvy-what-are-james-andrews-key-influencer-and-jeffrey-l-bowman-hiding">This Post</a>.</p>
<p>Long story short.. Apparently, there was a SXSW panel called <a href="http://www.sxsw.com/node/4571" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Blacks In Tech&#8221;</a>, which, actually, now that I look at the lineup on James Andrews&#8217; blog post, included my friend <a href="http://nichellestephens.com/" rel="friend met colleague">Nichelle Stephens</a>, which failed to field an all-black panel.  Faith Dow took exception to this and brought it up when it was her turn to speak when they opened the floor to audience members.</p>
<p>There was more hubbub.  Go read their posts if you give a damn.  The point is that if you&#8217;re going to make something called Five Apples On A Stage, there had damned ******* well be FIVE ******* APPLES on the stage or you just have to eat it (haha no pun intended) when someone says &#8220;THOSE ARE ORANGES! :/&#8221;.  There&#8217;s nothing you can say about it.  There&#8217;s no defense whatsoever.</p>
<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s what led to my friend&#8217;s question.  The answer is that race matters in tech to fools.</p>
<p>If you become aware that someone&#8217;s better, more stylish, more creative, more insightful or just plain FASTER than other people that do the exact same job he or she does and you elect not to hire them because their skin color is different from yours, you get what you deserve, which is an inferior product.</p>
<p>So if the panel had been named &#8220;Minorities In Tech&#8221;, Faith Dow wouldn&#8217;t have had jack to say about it&#8230; Except it WASN&#8217;T named that, so it either looks like DELIBERATELY FALSE ADVERTISING or an EPIC FAILURE in an attempt to find either 5 or 6 black people to sit on the same SXSW panel in the year 2010 AD (When this amazing feat has already been pulled off at several SXSW conferences in the past).  There&#8217;s no defense against this.  The panel should have been renamed before SXSW even started, or the panel should have been populated as advertised.</p>
<h3>C&#8217;mon SON!</h3>
<p>Getting back to Jill Scott&#8217;s point.. If you&#8217;re going to reach all the way back to Civil Rights and beyond to explain why you wince when black guys hook up with white girls, you need to focus on what the point was of granting people rights in the first place.  It wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Please, oh please grant us the right to kick it to 12% of the American population&#8221;.  It was &#8220;Grant us the right to do the **** whatever we FEEL like doing, so long as we&#8217;re within the law and not hurting anybody&#8221;.  Instead of feeling poorly, shouldn&#8217;t you actually feel HAPPY that SOMEONE benefitted from Civil Rights? O_o</p>
<p>What about when blacks work for white companies?  Is that upsetting too? :D  Should blacks turn down white clients for some odd reason?  Should blacks not be on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/billcammack/" rel="me">linkedin</a>?  What about Facebook?  Should blacks only patronize <a href="http://www.blackplanet.com/" rel="nofollow">BlackPlanet.com</a>?  I mean, seriously, where does it end? \o/</p>
<p>There is no reason at all why a black dude shouldn&#8217;t kick it with a white chick that&#8217;s interested in him, unless of course, she&#8217;s <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/11/20/how-to-avoid-having-sex-with-your-busted-girlfriend/">busted</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how it works.  If a chick is attractive, &#8220;She could get it&#8221;.  If she&#8217;s not attractive, &#8220;Nah.. That&#8217;s AIITE!&#8221;.  Most guys, black, white or otherwise aren&#8217;t thinking about the situation any more deeply than that.</p>
<p>Also&#8230; I suggest that y&#8217;all stop spreading rumors that white chicks listen to orders, take their men shopping, act properly around company, let you do all kinds of <a href="http://reelsolid.tv/2010/03/21/sexting-seriously/">Tiger-Woods-sex-text-message-type</a> stuff to them and then get up and make you a sandwich, because you&#8217;re only making matters worse for YOURSELVES!!! >:D</p>
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