Sunday, October 24, 2010

You’re the one that I DON’T want

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Just minutes ago I watched something in Lifestyle television that distracted me for a whole five minutes. The program was entitled “Biggest Hollywood Break-ups” and it was BIG, I tell you. What really intrigued me was the love life of notorious, drug-sniffing, bamboo stick-skinny model Kate Moss. Don’t get me wrong, I love her, her face and her style but her love life is what I would like to call a train wreck. The men she was in love, GAWD, were a far cry from what she deserves. One guy who was so BAD and I mean REALLY BAD for her was her rockstar ex whose name I could not remember. He was downright dysfunctional, had a chemical romance with all sorts of drugs and was stupid. I really do not know what Kate sees in him, but I really do think that she has gone blind.
The real crazy phenomenon exhibited in Kate Moss’ love life is the phenomenon I would like to call, “Bad Guy Love.”
This phenomenon, scientifically, is unexplainable. But I, a girl, can and will be able to explain it sans the hormones and the endorphins blah blah blah. Why do most girls get attracted to bad guys? Why do they have this strange fascination with guys who break all the rules? Is there a benefit in dating guys like Chuck Bass or Johnny Depp? There are many answers to this question, and I might as well enumerate them.

1. Sense of adventure. Bad boys do bad things. Correct. Good girls do good things. Correct again. When this good girl goes into a “I-am-sick-of-being-good” crisis, this good girl would try to find something to do that is beyond her limits. With this coming-of-age turnover comes a tour guide who knows everything that is BAD. These girls would love to experience new things and it can only happen with a bad guy. And the bad guy would be happy to oblige.

2. A Walk to Remember. Do you know the movie “A Walk to Remember”? Do you remember how girls in the cinema just swooned over the lead character Landon Carter? How they quickly fell in love with him? I still can remember how I loved that movie so much that I was determined to read all the novels written by Nicholas Sparks. Anyhow, if you haven’t seen it, the story is quite similar to the koreanovelas and other –novellas today about this bad guy who turned into a good guy after falling in love with a good girl. Every girl has this fantasy of changing a man’s life, like how Jamie Sullivan changed Landon Carter’s life in a subtle manner. I, too, have that kind of fantasy even though it’s quite absurd. Why do girls want to be Jamie Sullivan? Because it gives them a sense of supreme importance to man’s life, then she would or would not brag about it in the future. To change a bad guy is to tame a lion, nearly impossible but really possible.

3. The Chase. Do you know feeling when you are really attracted to this person but this person does not reciprocate to your feelings? You know, being ignored? No matter how harsh it is, girls usually love the chase. Today’s dating rules tell us that guys love to chase but can’t girls do the chasing too? Girls, nowadays, are more straightforward than those girls in the, say, 15th century. Now, everyone has to make a move despite the one’s inhibitions and the awkwardness of the situation.

4. The Label. Bad boys are usually labeled as “cool” or “in”, maybe even “hot” especially in the fashion industry. Their stance, their dress code, their stair… bad guys are just plain SEXY and sex usually sells. Girls have this weird notion of getting what is hot in the market, their latest accessory of some sort. Apparently, bad guys are selling like hotcakes.
No matter how you would turn the world upside-down, bad guys always sell. But don’t get me wrong; at the end of the day, it’s the good guys who get all the love. Bad guys don’t last forever or even a lifetime. It’s like eating Ferreros, you might want to eat it every day but you won’t, because you know it’s going to be bad for you, you might get hyperglycemia and diabetes which would eventually kill you. Bad guys may be the ideal of the century but good guys are the keeper, they’re the ones who are worthy of any girl’s love. After the adventure, the chase, the fantasies… nothing remains and you might end up broke, and life for a good girl would then be, again, boring. In the end, the troupe of Shia LaBeouf and Michael Cera wins the hearts of girls around the world. They may be good, but girl, you haven’t gone to their deepest thoughts yet. Who knows what’s in their heads? Good guys are not all too good, they can be lions sometimes. They’re just men after all.

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