Kickstand wrote:
Speaking of putting chicas on pedestals, who remembers this quote?
"Cameron has never been in love - at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work."
Excellent quote! I remember watching this film when I was about 7 or 8 years old and feeling a sense of enlightenment from watching the hour and forty minutes that chronicled Farris's day off.
This is an interesting discussion. From the few encounters I had with the working girls in CR, I wouldn't have been able to fall in love with any of them. I wouldn't trust them. Perhaps the majority are not like the ones I had the pleasure of meeting, but it is also likely that some men might fall a little to heavy for a seemingly affectionate, kind, fun, beautiful young chica. Much of my interaction, more so at the SL and less so at HLH, with previously mentioned girls was painted with a bright coat of blatant manipulation. Grabbing at me, telling me I am handsome, I have nice eyes etc.
I have encountered many girls in my life, at least half of the humans walking around this planet are females, and girls outside of pick up bars usually don't treat me the way the ones inside did, regardless of whether I'm trying to bone them or not. I suspect that I didn't undergo a drastic change in personality during those 4 days in San Jose. I also suspect that their attitude towards me was very much influenced by the understanding that I was sitting there, at that particular bar, looking to pay a girl for sex. Its sort of like being on the other side of the fence. Back home I'm the one trying to be all charming and intriguing in hopes that some cute girl will reward me for the time and energy I spent courting her. Perhaps if your a bit of an older man, and the novelty of youth has appreciated throughout the years, it would be very easy to get caught up in the eyes of a young, attractive, smiling Latina and loose sight of the dynamics of the situation; your supposed to be taking her for a ride, not the other way around.
On the other hand, there is the whole human dynamic. If I sat down at the bar and was approached by a pretty girl who revealed that she enjoyed hiking, a nice rye, and reading Charles Bukowski I may be fooled into thinking I was in love with her. People have met and become lovers in wide variety of strange places, it isn't out of the realm of possibility that such a thing might happen at a pick up bar, although I would venture a guess that it is more unlikely to happen there then most other places.
I dunno. I'm aware that probably every member on this board has more understanding and insight into the scene than I do, having only partook for a short period of time, once (so far), but this is the way I see it. Even if I felt strongly for a working girl I would have major reservations given the nature of the situation in which we met.