2. Shock and Awe, Hypo-man-cemia

My girl Chastity just broke up with her million dollar, future politician boy friend, who still maintained his good looks and mid-western values amidst all of his early success. She had been seeing him for the past three years and their relationship came to an end this spring when they seemed to just fall out of love. She packed up her things and moved to NYC and let me just say that she has hit the dating scene with a post 9/11 "Bushism" quality. Let me make it a multiple choice analogy for you...SAT style.

If Chastity is to a Post 9/11 fighter pilot, than a New York City single male is to:

A. North Korea
B. Europe
C. Afghanistan
D. Antarctica

If you guessed Afghanistan than you are correct. Chastity came to New York and has literally blown up the dating scene. She has been on more dates in the last three weeks, since her arrival, than I have in the last year. (Maybe that doesn't say a whole lot for my dating skills, but it's pretty intense.)

For those of you who chose one of the other options it may suggest the following:

1. My question was a little misleading
2. If you chose North Korea than you may be like me and see the New York City single male as one who is clearly harboring tons of nuclear explosives just lurking in the darkness. He waiting for the right time to strike and blow up all the hope that you once had. Yes, it is a sad state of affairs...I am beginning to think that they are all evil.
3. If you chose Europe you see the New York City single male as one who, like Tony Blair, will roll over and support the worst ideas ever...like supporting the war in iraq...or well perhaps anal sex. (That would be one of the worst ideas ever in my mind, but I know that there are ladies out there who feel otherwise.)
4. If you chose Antarctica you see the New York City single male as a lonely and desolate frozen place that barely gets any sunlight and you would rather overdoes on barbiturates than spend anytime with such a secluded and cold man.

As for Chastity I believe that she suffers from what I like to call Shock and Awe, Hypo-man-cemia. After suffering a traumatic break up the saying "get back in the saddle again" is taken all too literally. It is that sudden shock of being without your male counter part that throws you into a dating tailspin...or feeding frenzy of sorts. The Hypo-man-cemia takes over and you devour...or in Chastity's case, explode on every man that you see. Yes, I have been here too...I think that I spent much of my freshman year of college in this state. I used to get so anxious about being alone that it would nearly make me nauseous. Can you say embarrassing?

Again, I am not entirely sure how to correct this Hypo-man-cemia and Shock and Awe...I guess after a while it is like Afghanistan...soon it will be all blown up. We ladies, will be forced to move on to something else...like Iraq...or Lesbianism.