Publius78

Not to mention wearing a serious expression in the middle of July!

​ Yes, you do have to listen to a girl (or woman). And you should be grateful to the females who used the power they have over all men (what you call "feminine wiles") to temporarily put you under their control - i.e. to temporarily put you in the position that you should be in all the time, under the control of a female. You seem to be under the illusion that you've matured past early childhood - something that no man ever does, of course. I hope for your sake that you find a loving, caring woman who will put you back in diapers (assuming you ever got out of them) and oversee your regression back to your true social age. Not necessarily in that order. Or rather, who will oversee your becoming aware of what your true social age has always been. Even some of us who are so lucky - or who were lucky enough to have a mother who never let us fool ourselves into thinking we were big boys in the first place - don't appreciate it. But some of us do. SallyKA has already explained all this and more. And while I am somewhat precocious in my use of words for a little boy - not the same thing as maturity! - she has said it all better than I ever could, naturally. But confused as you are about the proper relation between the sexes, I thought that if you won't listen to reason coming from a female, maybe you'll listen to it coming from a fellow male. So I've delurked to try to talk some sense into you. SallyKA - Thank you for taking the time to educate some of us boys, and remind the rest of us, about how thing are. And thank you for your wonderful stories. Sarah Penguin - Please don't worry. I think you'd do a fine job being in charge. You might only be a little girl, but remember, we're only little boys!