Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Also did you just call Isabel .... er ... friendly?
No I didn't, would you like me to? Isabel, this is my friend Bart, he's lovely.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I once went out with … famously beautiful and talented semi-celebrity
Hi five!
1/ Please tell me you mean the hand gesture, and not the children's entertainment group.
2/ Without the qualifiers in that sentence, I believe the "once" becomes untrue.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Most of the people I’ve tangled with have been friends first and, at one stage, I was in danger of running out of male friends I hadn’t boffed.
Sharing a social group with Isabel, I just think you should all be aware of how stonkingly true this is. You can amend it to "male friends of Emma's" and it's still just as true.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to BenWilson,
Too late. You touched it in front of the entire town hall. Now that is just brazen.
Fuck, true. There's even video of me doing it. Perhaps I should send it to that guy...
Either she sends really mixed messages, or she's a magnet to such people.
Some people just do seem to attract... difficult personalities.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Lilith __,
We’re all unique fucking snowflakes, alright?
This. On a t-shirt, please. :-)
A pre-printed, mass-produced t-shirt? :-)
Doesn’t mean I don’t sometimes feel a spark right away, but I need more than that to be really interested.
A while back, over at the Other Place, I wrote a column about the idea of chemistry, which may be relevant.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Matthew Reid,
Some don't get the rejection.
Ugh. UGH. I have a sudden urge to cut all my hair off so I don't play with it by mistake.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
My only sexual relationships have been with women who were friends first.
I have both male and female friends for whom this is true. Or at least, their only successful relationships. For me it's the complete opposite. The current theory is that it might be a defense mechanism from having been the only woman in a group of close friends.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
And by eventually I mean after having gotten to know someone over a period of weeks or months, not the course of an evening.
Ah, this could indicate something quite different. Some women, myself included, have a "friend zone". Once you've been put in the Friend Zone, thinking of you in a romantic/sexual context requires a jarring mind-shift. Just getting your head around the idea, no matter how you feel about the individual, is discomforting. For me this is non-gender-specific. But. Not all people do this.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Tom Beard,
So, the general idea is that one should be confident without arrogance, express interest without desperation, and if possible cheeky without being insulting. Well, that's the theory. It never works for me.
I just fell off my chair as a result of random clumsiness. Not at all because I was laughing so hard I couldn't hold myself up.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Ross Mason,
"Emma, you have most amazing eyes I have ever seen."
Actual conversation:
“Your daughter has amazing eyes.”
“Aren’t they gorgeous? They’re just like yours.”
NOT hitting on me.