Quote: (08-29-2012 11:39 AM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
Beta or not, women need to know that this move is dangerous. I'm not condoning his actions in the least, but when a guy pulls the kind of stunt she pulled, he has police hunting for him.
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"She didn't consider the relationship dating," Caputo said. "She said, 'he likes to buy me things,' and showed us this jewelry, a gold necklace and two bracelets. She said right in front of him, 'I'm not having sex with him, I've got a boyfriend.' " Caputo said that it didn't seem as if Mehlman was being mean, that she was matter-of-fact about it.
I was going to quote the same exact passage. I don't have much sympathy for the girl, because she was deliberately playing him. Like J R said, a little game wisdom could've easily saved both their lives.
That said, sexual liberation vastly increases the opportunities for fits of sexual envy, and the occasional murders that ensue. A good deal of the murders of women are related to sex, in one way or another. This was a plot element in Houellebecq's Whatever. Also, like Kamaki and others have suggested, the likelihood of a violent response differs among groups and cultures.