One of the damndest principles in all of life is that wretched one which insists that the rich get richer while the poor simply get poorer. You only have to look around at nearly every aspect of how society operates in order to observe its effects in action. For those already doing well financially, there seems always an anxious banker or drooling businessman standing ready to push still another opportunity at them so they can make more money (that they hardly need), while some joker slaving away for minimum wage works himself to the bone for every single dollar he can wring out of his miserable job without anyone ever giving him a shot at some easy money. An actor who already has more movie offers than he can handle will have directors and studios pestering him relentlessly to take on their pet project, while the struggling actor can’t scare up a walk-through bit part in a B movie to save his life. And so it goes.

Well, as one of life’s major losers in the arena of love, sex and romance, I don’t have to tell you that this principle operates with remarkable precision in the dating and mating game. The “Rich” (i.e. guys who are already getting more action than they can handle) always seem to be encountering a constant stream of opportunities to become romantically entangled with new women, while the “Poor” (guys who couldn’t buy a date with a woman) never so much as catch a hint of interest from any chick. Sound familiar?

Did you ever notice how women always seem to want to flirt with any guy who appears to be hanging out with his girlfriend, or maybe just talking to some other girl in a bar? Meanwhile, the schlep who’s standing around by himself looking for anyone to talk to may as well have the goddamn Bubonic Plague!

While there may be a variety of reasons for this near universal state of affairs -some of which have to do with only wanting to eat from someone else’s plate like a spoiled little brat (which describes the character of many women, incidentally) -- I personally believe that the major motivation for this catty female behaviour is simply that women look to other women for clues about the acceptability of men as dating partners.  One of the most important of these clues is merely the romantic interest that another women expresses in a man.  In other words, the more women seem to be interested in a guy, the more interesting he becomes to the other women surrounding him.  To a certain degree, women want to steal each other’s men!

Can you see how this “me too” behaviour assures that the rich just keep getting richer?  It’s like our friends the Rock Stars who have to beat the groupies off with a stick (while you just get to beat off... period).  The adoration of a group of deranged women catches hold and spreads like wildfire throughout legions of girls, almost as if they’re hypnotized (actually, they are... self-hypnotized).  This phenomenon has displayed itself from Elvis to Michael Jackson to Ricky Martin and will probably continue to do so until we’re all dead and gone.