Fellas | Pass on the Pretty
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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So that sweaty palm, don’t-know-your-own-name, why-are-you-stuttering, do-you-know-you-just-walked-into-the-counter-that-doesn’t-move? questions that often flood my mind in certain, shall we say ‘social’ situations might just be a more serious man thing than I thought.
I’m referring to that phenomena where otherwise normal-looking guys act abnormal something fierce in the presence of intelligent, successful, beautiful (highly subjective yes, but for the sake of argument we will leave well enough alone) women.
If I think about it long enough, I can see why there is some anxiety – there is always some sort of increased blood circulation activity involved when engaging in something/ someone new, but who would have thought that it’s the kind of stress that can mess with your health?
There’s a study that came out of University of Valencia in Spain that has found that the degree of stress that a guy can experience in the presence of a “hat daaaaymn!“-looking stranger can be so bad it can lead to heart problems, particularly if he considers the female in question to be out of his league — which, might I add may not be a stretch with the caliber of women these days, or is it the caliber of men? Either way, as a result this may happen a lot more than we think.
The Daily Mail likens this feeling of anxiety similar to diving from an aircraft.
*Say what?*
Is it that serious? Poor boobears, Awwww. Hopefully word gets around so these same ‘out-of-your-league’ women would take more care in crushing your heart into itty bitty pieces. Wishful thinking I’m sure. Anyways, moving on.
As if increased stress levels wasn’t bad enough, it has been reported that the cortisol levels increase even higher, leading to the probability of heart attacks and strokes.
But wait! It doesn’t end there, the party has just begun mis amigos.
Even if my guy managed to soldier through the near heart failure and his nagging persistence pays off thereby manifesting itself in a long-term [stress] relationship with the heavenly being, the continuous “chronic levels of cortisol” that follow can (paradoxically I might add) lead to… impotence.
*Whatchu talkin’ ’bout Willis?*
No I didn’t make that up.
The experts remarked, and I quote:
“Exposure to physical or psychological stresses for a long period of time may cause chronically elevated cortisol levels that can have adverse effects on health as it worsens various disorders, such as myopathy, adult-onset diabetes, hypertension and impotency”.
Yikes.
So in addition to the fact that you already think she’s out of your league, there is now alleged data to support a possible gadget malfunction. Noice. Way to land the hottie.
This sounds like a vicious cycle.
**Enter Beautiful Stranger**:
Stress -> High cortisol levels -> Impotency -> Stress
Sounds like the definition of Bad Romance. For the sake of his swimmies, seems like it might really be in Alejandro’s best interest not to call GaGa’s name.
So is the answer then for guys to stick to ladies in their own ‘league’? Or maybe better yet, date down?
Har har. Fat chance, seeing that with the male species, it seems as though the brain isn’t usually the organ that wears the pants.
Must suck rocks though fellas.
Hush.
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The reason for this is very simple. Most beautiful women, of late, have become b!tches. I’m sorry to say it but society has put such a high price on their beauty that they have an over-inflated sense of ego that tends to have no mercy for anyone they feel is below their standards. To the point where they literally seem to take some sort of delight in verbally destroying anyone who dares to intrude upon their space without the proper pre-requisites.
The level of crap a woman can get away with is inversely proportional to how good they look. The closer they are to a 10, the more they get away with. Inversely, the decency of women to men who approach them is inversely proportional to how good they look. The closer they are to a 10, the worse they treat the men around them.
I know that confidence can make up for a lot when approaching a woman, but its sort of like getting a job. Unless you have experience, you cant get the job, but its hard to get experience until you get a job.
Women seem to think they’re the only ones who get burned. Unfortunately, its easier for a woman to replace a man than the other way around. Unless he either looks like Denzel, has the lyrics of Shakespeare (Ghetto or otherwise) or is loaded. To replace a man a woman just has to have a pulse.
Period.
So yeah.. we get anxious. Cause when we approach you we have no idea if we’re confronting, to use a term, Helen of Troy or Medusa. We’re in the dark until you open your mouth and the first comment comes out. At which point we find out if we’re willing to go to war for you, of if we’ve just been turned to stone.
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Supernova Reply:
May 7th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
This comment was very well written; Good stuff.
@ “Helen of Troy or Medusa”. I’m definitely biting that.
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