A Little About "The Girl Who Never Gets Hit On"

They say a girl can get anything she wants -- a date, drinks bought for her, out of a speeding ticket, sex. Reading magazines like Cosmo and watching "Sex In the City" make it seem so easy.

Well, you know what, it's not.

I go out a lot -- to networking events, with friends and even alone sometimes -- and nine out of 10 times, I do not get hit on the way people make it seem. I've been asked to get out of a picture, I've been ignored, I've been used to get to another friend...I was even told once, "sorry, no I really want her number, I don't care about yours."

Sometimes I feel like I'm a character in a movie to the point where I think I should take acting lessons and really go be that looser friend to the hot chick in the movies. The night usually ends up with me getting annoyed and texting my best friend telling her how worthless I am, and there has to be something wrong with me.

Here's the catch -- I may not be a size zero, 6-foot-tall blonde, but I also haven't exactly been beaten with the ugly stick. However, considering the way I get treated, I might as well be.

After a networking event in New York City this past week and a whole weeks worth of them the week before that, I got the idea to write this, because a) the stuff that happens is so unbelievable that someone should record it, b) it's good therapy for me c) I'm hoping there are other people out there experiencing this and d) this would make a great book, but I'm not going to wait for a publisher to offer me a deal -- I just want to start writing.

A few rules, everything I write here will be based on what I have experienced/experience or observed/observe, however details like names and locations may be changed, because I do have a career to manage and I don't want to piss off everyone in the world.

Oh, and please don't think this is just a form of bitching. This is really a topic that appeals to me and I think of it more like a reflection of society and a place to talk about this subject openly. 

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. And, if you don't -- you are probably either a model type who has never experienced this type of outcasting before, or are one of the idiot men I'm likely writing about.

:)