Should I feel sorry for my friend?

That title actually makes me sound kind of harsh, so I’ll explain.

My friend is good looking guy, in a totally non, “I want sweaty man love with him” way. He’s always found it easy to talk to girls and fair play to him for having the confidence to do so. However he recently came to me with a dilemma, he’s being pursued by too many women.

Now I know him well and he’s totally not in control of this, for example we’ll go out for a few drinks and women will literally walk straight up to him and give him their number.

He’s now told me that this is getting annoying for him, now I can understand being harrassed is something to be annoyed about, but he’s just annoyed with beautiful women throwing themselves at him.

The main reason it’s hard to feel bad for him is because the women as I see them are stunning, but he’s got a totally different idea of what makes a girl attractive, and that’s cool, it’s up to him. It’s just a little hard to work up sympathy for a guy because he’s got too many perfectly nice women trying to get to know him.

Does anyone out there have advice for how to talk to him? Or better yet do any of you super foxes out there have advice I could pass along to him to help him be less sexarific?

10 thoughts on “Should I feel sorry for my friend?

  1. Maracuya says:
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    [Yeah, I would. It sounds annoying! Maybe your buddy looks good or seems like he has money. These women just seem like they’re taking advantage of him. I get where you’re coming from, though but I bet 9 out of 10 times those girls are not keepers in any sense.

  2. MargieCharles says:
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    [I could see how this situation might be annoying, but you could always try and get him to see the “bright” side. Just point out that there are tons of people, men and women alike, who would LOVE to have this problem, and who repeatedly have the opposite problem.

    It’s probably easier said than done, but if he’s really annoyed with this he could try changing up his body language when he’s out. People who have the problem of seeming unapproachable always get advice on how to seem more approachable. They’re told to smile and look pleasant, they’re told if they’re in a group of friends to sit with their body slightly facing away from the group and towards the public in order to seem more inviting. What if he tried the opposite? If he avoided making eye contact or smiling at the opposite sex, if he turned his body inward when at a table. It’s probably something in his personality that makes him seem so approachable, but if it’s really annoying him he could put some effort into seeming unapproachable when he really doesn’t want to be approached.

  3. JaKeBe says:
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    [I have this same problem. With me, it’s with middle schoolers and middle aged women. I don’t know, I guess I have some sort of mature-for-my-age vampire thing going on or something. Either way, my targeted demographic is obviously not being reached. I’ll have to consult my self-marketing team to get them to change whatever it is they are doing to make me only desirable to inappropriately-aged females.

  4. LMcMack says:
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    [He tells you this is annoying much in the same way that a millionaire would tell you “It is SO HARD to have THIS MUCH money.”

    While it may cause a minor annoyance at times, this guy is playing you, dude. Maybe he professes his annoyance only to try and make you feel better about not having beautiful women fall at your feet.

    Or this could totally be made up. 😉

  5. Eleanor Roosevelt says:
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    [Yeah, life is so hard for him, I’m sure. While I can understand it might be annoying, I don’t think abundance is something to complain about.

  6. Matt Sanchelli says:
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    [I don’t think you need to exactly feel sorry for him but perhaps try to alter your perspective of the situation and see it from his side. On one side you have what Solstice mentioned that he may just be getting frustrated with it because he just wants to hang out with his buddies (I’m sure many more women encounter this when getting constantly approached on a girls-night-out).

    Here’s another perspective though. You say, “The main reason it’s hard to feel bad for him is because the women as I see them are stunning…”

    That comment reminds me of a comment I made when out with some friends years ago. Say you are driving down the road and a smoking hot woman is walking along the sidewalk. Most people would make a comment like, “Damn, check out the legs on her,” or some type of comment based on how she looks.

    You don’t hear people (in this same situation) say, “Damn, check out the sense of humor on her! You know she enjoys a good fart joke.”

    So sure, they may be stunning in a physical sense but what about attitude? Personality? Ego? Confidence? Hygiene? Her approach could be completely self-centered and entitled. She could be boring. There are various possibilities on why he may not be interested in these women.

  7. Solstice says:
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    [I don’t know, I could see how it might be annoying if he just wants to go out drinking with a buddy and women keep coming up to him. He must be really hot or well-dressed if it happens so often that it’s a problem, though! I think Margaret Charles’s advice about trying not to make eye contact, etc. would be a good thing for him to try at least, and see if that affects the number of women who approach him.

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