I did a bit of gardening this summer. If you have never engaged in this activity yourself, you may be surprised how quickly plants you do not want to have in your garden take roots and multiply. No, this is not at all a racist metaphor. I only refer to plants that ruin the composition of my garden and which therefore need to uproot and thrown out. One nasty plant that had sprouted was a so-called dog rose. You can make tea from their fruits, but this seems to be a pain in the butt. What is worse is that this is a thorny plant. In addition, it is not visually appealing either. I cut it down completely and even considered digging out the roots. I did not do that yet because I hope that it does not survive the winter. If not, I will have to dig up the ground and get rid of the roots as well.

As I was wrestling with this nasty plant, which caused me to get pricked more than once despite wearing proper gardening gear I thought that plenty of roses have thorns. Some kinds of roses were bred to not grow thorns, but this ruins the metaphor I am building up here. Anyway, the many kinds of roses with thorns people are fine with because they enjoy looking at blossoming roses and smell them. The good clearly outweighs the bad. We find the same phenomenon among women. Some women are so attractive that guys readily look past their problems. It does not matter that she cannot handle money or even that she has a bona fide psychological disorder. In fact, these very obvious issues may even make her more appealing to some guys. There even is the Captain-Save-a-Ho trope. This is not made up. Many a guy ruined his life over wanting to save a hot but unfortunately bipolar woman he thought needed just a little bit of guidance. Even more devious is that some women embrace their clinical insanity. If you are ready to move on, they may tell you that you are “not man enough” to handle her.

Unattractive women cannot really get away with having a capricious personality, which is why you normally do not encounter a lot of fat and ugly women who behave as if they are princesses. Attractive women understand that and some even seem to cultivate an unpleasant persona, which they put on when it may suit them. However, as it so happens, no rose blossoms forever, and no woman will retain her youthful beauty for more than a few short years. Changing one’s personality is quite difficult, if not impossible. There will be a time in the life of any once very-attractive but also toxic woman when she is no longer particularly attractive. At that point, the number of men who are willing to deal with her nonsense will be slim to none and to many of them this comes as a big surprise. Sometimes, these women turn into raging feminists, full of hatred for men because they feel used. All it would have taken was to be a bit nicer, which is obviously only an option for women who do not suffer from a mental disorder.