We can't think of anything more gay than including one of those colon-parentheses smiley faces in an email, but we just caught ourselves putting not one, but two, in an email to a girl we like. We hate that we did it, and stared at the computer screen for a good 20 minutes, debating whether or not to remove them. In the end, we decided that, gay as they are, it was the only way to make sure that said girl would recognize that a few of our statements were sarcastic and written in jest.
We're between the proverbial rock and hardplace -- go with the smileys and feel like an asshat and run the risk of looking like a pussy, go without smileys and run a greater risk, since she doesn't know us that well, of looking like a jerk.
We know that the No-Look has a strong female following and we would like to ask you if it's better for a guy to come across as insensitive (sans smiley) or gay (smileys)?
To the male readers, should we just castrate ourselves now, or are we just out-of-touch with the times? Are typed smiley faces common practice and acceptable when e-courting?
4 comments:
definitely better to be cheesy as hell than an asshole.
Instead of some cheesy come on line, just get straight to the point.
Doggystyle or Missionary ;-)
ive never used the "smiley" in an email before and its probably been 7years since ive used the AIM smiley faces...so im putting in a "castrate yourself now" vote. but then again i've never attempted any "e-courting" or any true courting of any kind really...so sack up no look and place it on her shoulder next time.
Don't use emoticons. Save the sarcasm for in person. Be straight to the point in an email.
Emoticons are horrible. Godless terrible things. NEVER!
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