Why Girls Like Morons

We all have that one friend. She’s with that one guy.
He’s so obnoxious.
He’s so full of himself.
Seriously?
However, many a girl has crushed on one moron or another in her lifetime. When I say “moron” I’m not referring to a dumb guy, but a guy who seriously has his priorities out of whack. He’s the guy that doesn’t think before he talks, before he acts, or at all.
“You’re hot.”
Wow. That took a lot of brain cells. Or maybe even this:
“You want to go out with me?”
Go out where? Outside? On the swings, the soccer field, what? If he doesn’t even care to specify where he wants to take you, he’s a moron.
So here’s the question: why do girls find morons attractive?
I am doing the best that I can with my brief life experience of sixteen years to analyze this.

Attention.

Let’s face it: some boys are really good at giving attention. But is it always good attention? He doesn’t respect you. He talks about you to his friends like you’re a trophy on his mantle. That’s not the kind of attention you want.
The sad thing is that some girls don’t care. She might be so desperate that the degrading why her guy treats her doesn’t matter.

Comfort.

Shallowness, complacency, negativity-they’re comfortable. For example, you’ve had an argument (maybe even a cat fight) with another girl. The first thing you do is call your guy up and rant. Here’s what a moron would do: trash the girl that fought with you, agree that you were just a victim, and “make you feel better.”
Your anger would be appeased, your comfort zone restored.
Here’s what a good guy would do: remind you that you’re not a victim, you’re a victor over your circumstances and can respond with kindness, and make you feel convicted. Not very comfortable, huh?

Fear.

She’s afraid that nobody but a moron would ever like her.
Ouch.
That’s some serious damage there. Fear and doubt fuses together and worms its way into a relationship. When we view ourselves negatively, everyone else is tinted darkly as well.
Sometimes I want to grab a girl by the shoulders, shake her really hard, and say, “You are way more than who you think you are!”
I don’t think violently shaking someone would solve the problem though.
Anyway, insecurity is the root of why she’s afraid of good guys. She’s afraid that when a good guy finds out that she’s not perfect, he drops her like a bad habit. But nobody’s perfect. Just because he’s respectful and kind doesn’t mean he’s flawless. He probably still tells lame jokes and eats his boogers and stuff like that.
The main reason why I think girls (and guys) are attracted to morons is because they don’t want a deep relationship. It’s not hard to stay away from a deep relationship with someone who’s shallow. But if it’s not a deep relationship, it’s not a relationship worth having.

Copyright Kaleigh Kuhns 2014. Kaleigh has never actually been in a relationship so she might have no idea what she’s talking about. She’s just going from what she knows as the official Shoulder-To-Cry-On at BrokenheartedGirls Inc.