Jake: That sounds like a true-to-life video!

Marketing encourages low self-image in women – the magazines, the makeup, the Pop-Tart girls. It’s difficult for women not to feel too much or too little of anything.

Unfortunately, that market is a bit saturated so companies are now targeting the metrosexual and it’s sad to see what magazines like what it is called, “Maxim”? that look like a “Male Cosmo” – giving men advice on getting lean, developing six-pack abs, the benefits of exfoliation.

The SNL “Girly-Man” slur will no longer be an insult – it’ll just be a lifestyle!

Thanks for the thought that men see women in a softer light than women see themselves. I am sure they do despite all the marketing!

Jill: You are too funny. I can kinda-sorta see dating a 50-year old but dang, the rugged-athletic guys who look good in their late 40s and early 50s all seem to live in Colorado!

In my part of the country, at least the ones who are searching online, the men are either doughy looking (I really don’t want to judge by looks but gee, I’m not doughy looking) or exfoliating types. The latter want younger women.

I think your description of a perfect man can’t exist in the same space-time continuum. I mean it’s like matter/anti-matter. I mean, “sane” + “climb bank roofs”??

You might get more takers on your profile if you wrote it up that way and it might get rid of all the Turkish dudes. Or not.

The pronoun issue is weird. From what I’ve seen, a man with pronoun problems is a “playah”

50 years old sounds about right by me. If I’m ever in a serious relationship again I’d like a guy who’s already seen a midlife crisis or two…

Then again, it’s going to be hard to find a 50 year old sane-warrior-poet-musician who drinks heavily and is willing to climb bank roofs every other weekend but is a responsible citizen the rest of the month…

Think I’d get many takers if I posted my request that way?????

So funny on the pronouns!!!!!!! Those guys either don’t have the poet thing down or they were in a hurry…

I often thought that if women saw themselves the way men saw them, they’d relax and not sweat the details. I’m sure that both Ms. Q and her mother are both still Hotties.

Revlon Colorstay? Hmm. That stuff works?

Ricardo: Chivalrous as always!

A date with the charming man-about-town with the devilish smile? How can any woman, much less Ms. Q, resist?

Who knows, maybe it’s you who won’t forget the date …