Oh Seattle- by Josephine

Well, first off, in response to Nat's post: Sandra Lee: sent to torture the whole world with her butter cocktails and sour cherry meat sauces....cringe....

Now, for those of you who don't know: two of the single girls were recently reunited! My dear Ally came to visit me in Seattle this past week. Hopefully she had fun, but it was typical Seattle weather and a little more chilly than it has been. Of course, they leave and its sunny sunny sunny. Figures. Anyway, as friends often do, we had many conversations about boys and dating...mostly over drinks and/or ice cream. Where to start?! Pretty much, Seattle sucks for a single girl. Oh its busy busy busy and great fun as a city, but if you don't just want a one night stand you're (pardon the pun) screwed. What makes it more interesting is this: couples are EVERYWHERE. It seems to be the place to go when you are young and newly married. If you aren't, god help you. At least it was a mild winter.

Here's something it took me a bit to learn living here:

Guys here are far too slow and noncommittal. I have many stories if anyone wants them. To further my point, I went out with my friends last week and met someone from South Carolina who immediately told me that he felt sorry for me because guys in Seattle are wimps. It seems that the odd passive aggressive tendencies in Seattle even abound in the dating world!

I am aware that this probably makes me sound like I hate Seattle, I don't. It's a great city for a thousand reasons! However, I do find that the men have too much power in this city. Pretty much, straight women far outnumber the straight men. This means that they pretty much have their pick. So, straight men of Seattle: be happy you have such power and wield it well!

By the way, a friend of mine has this posted on their facebook page and I thought it was a perfect example of Seattle-ness: "[other places] people say things, but in Seattle, there's this strange culture of wordlessness, wherein I am supposed to guess what one is feeling by the slight raise of an eyebrow or the beginnings of a frown." - Grey's Anatomy