I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it couldn’t be just me.

As many people have read and commented on, I haven’t had the best luck with women up here in the DC area. It has somewhat turned me sour towards women in this area (not the ones I personally know, but a good chunk of the rest). Well, it turns out, it’s not just me…it’s women in general.

Now, before you start bashing me for generalizing, hear me out.

I was reading Digg.com yesterday, near the end of the day, and came across an article on DoubleViking.com (admittedly a “guy site”) entitled Unfortunate (Sexual) Things About Being a Man. One part of the article struck me right away: that women just seem to hate men…especially meeting men in social situations.

Don’t believe me? Read for yourself:

Norah Vincent is a lesbian journalist. I say this not because “lesbian” is one of the only things one might need to know about her, but to bring to mind the cliché that most lesbians, to some extent, hate or dislike men.

Vincent’s book, A Self-Made Man, chronicles the year and a half she spent disguised as a man named “Ned,” in order to find out how the lives of men are different from the lives of women. While most of her findings could have been easily figured out without all the effort involved in cross-dressing (incidentally, men are less vocal about emotions than women), one particular finding is especially interesting:

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As “Ned” went to clubs to hang out with “his” male friends, Norah Vincent would occasionally talk to women while still in the guise of being a man – not necessarily to hit on them, but as a means of gauging reactions to certain conversational topics when the conversation is initiated by a man. After a few months of this, Vincent evidently began to despise women; no matter what she wanted to talk about, and no matter what her intentions were, nearly all of the women she talked to either blew her off, or were insanely rude and/or condescending to her. Without even stopping to hear what “Ned” had to say, the women in the nightclubs “Ned” visited immediately assumed he was a lecherous jerk looking only for sex, and treated him like shit as a result.

To summarize: regular women were such assholes to a lesbian when she was dressed like a man that she began to sympathize with men and actually hate women. If that isn’t proof-positive that heterosexual women tend to despise and generally act like jerks to men more than men despise and generally act like jerks to women, I don’t know what is. Sexists and assholes are obviously abound in both genders, but we’re talking about immediate reactions from one member of a sex to one member of another. Men may act like jerks to women, but they usually don’t tend to do it just because a woman wanted to talk to them.

See?!? I knew it wasn’t just me.

This is exactly the kind of behavior I’ve repeatedly observed in clubs in the DC metro area (hell, it’s happened to me at Blogger Happy Hours, for Christ’s sake!). To be honest, I always attributed it to my less-than-GQ looks and wardrobe, my slight paunch, my smoking, etc, etc, etc. Apparently, it just boils down to the fact that some women are just bitches.

Now, I don’t use that term lightly…and I in no way am attributing it to all women in this area. I’m just saying that my downward spiral of rejection in the abysmal dating scene in DC makes a whole lot more sense after reading this.

Or maybe I really am just a fat, ugly, mid-30s guy with lousy taste in clothes and not enough money. *shrugs* Who knows?

But, honestly, it does make me feel a little bit better if I can say it’s not just me. ;)