A woman with a chainsaw? If only

                      

"Lonely and looking for cuddle buddy"

There's a myth that still lingers in Alaska that there are many more men than women and that women ought to head north to find a mate.  One of the running jokes was a lot of men, but with the warning "the odds are good, but the goods are odd."  Probably true.  But the balance has changed.

These days there are just about as many women as men in the state so the enticement might have to be greater.  One of the early posts on this blog mentioned the personals ad for a "woman who owns a chainsaw, send picture of saw."  Well that one has been topped and by women advertising for men.

A few days ago while poking around the internet, I got to wondering what goes on in Craigslist personals.  I had never looked at them before and became intrigued with who might reach the point of looking for a partner in that arena.

In looking through the "women seeking men" category, I was at first amazed at how picky the women were.  I mean here they were in probably the last chance dating site, and looking still for the perfect man.  Some of them were even sort of nasty about it.  "Don't bother me if you don't meet the criteria." You got it.  I mean, you have to be getting pretty close to rock bottom looking for a partner on Craigslist, but still most of these women were looking for the prom king.  In all honesty, the other side wasn't any better. Guys were expecting to find Victoria's Secret models who were looking for their perfect mates in the same place.  Good luck with that.  As much as I laughed at these poor souls I also felt kind of sorry for them.  I mean to reach the point in life where you look for a mate in such a place and expect perfection is sad disillusionment.  You'd think at this point a warm body and functioning language skills would be sufficient, but nope, tall and handsome,  must love classical music, like candlelight dinners and know how to treat a woman like a lady.  Again, good luck with that on Craigslist.

The only thing worse, was the self descriptions.  After describing what they want in a perfect man: "I am a bbw (big beautiful woman, I learned later)  5 feet 2, 350 pounds, my friends tell me I have a beautiful smile."  I tried not to be too judgmental, after all, everyone deserves some happiness and body type and self image shouldn't be too big a part of it.  If I could have found one woman in a list of more than 50 who could write an ad and use the correct form of "your, you're" or "there they're their," I would have been attracted by the time I reached the last few ads.

But those aren't the ones that prompted this post.  It was that picture.  Under the title " Lonely and looking for a cuddle buddy" that woman posted a picture of herself shooting an assault rifle.  Good grief.  And there was another one.  When I went back looking for it, the ad had been taken down, so no photo. That woman had posted a picture of herself holding an automatic pistol in manicured fingers against some rather impressive cleavage.  Can you imagine those pictures on a dating site anywhere outside a war zone? Then again, maybe I am not giving them enough credit for knowing their audience. Here, I am sure those two received considerable attention from Alaska men who peruse Craigslist looking for women.  They got mine, but not for the reason they were intending.

But, man, if any of them had not been 50 years younger than me and had her hands on a chainsaw…

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