Poofing and Dumping
Once I was contacted on a dating site by a German, who had emigrated to some far away country as a young man and was considering returning to Germany. I exchanged a few emails with him. I got suspicious that he may be a new 'reincarnation' of someone else under a different name, whom I had been in contact with. Therefore I googled my new contact, I will call him C. I found a touching appeal of a distressed woman, asking if anybody has any information about a man with the name of C.
I talked with the woman on the phone. She told me the story. C. had been staying with her for a few weeks. When he left to return to his home, he disappeared into thin air at the place of a stopover. She never heard from him again. She wrote him emails, tried to call his land line and his cell phone, wrote him SMS, but he never replied. She was so worried, that some accident could have happened, that she even contacted the embassies.
We compared notes and she had no doubt, that my new contact was her C. At that time I shared her impression, that he was an extreme but rare case of a jerk. By now I have got aware, that such jerks are unfortunately by far not as rare. The behavior has even a name, it is called poofing and others have told their stories on dating forums.
Dumping is principally similar to poofing, but at least the jerk spares the woman to worry about him, as he declares to her in some short but unambiguous way, that he has no intention to continue the relationship. He prefers email, SMS or maybe the phone, but usually does not bother to have a personal talk about his reasons. He decides to dump, and the dumped woman has no influence upon his decision.
As long as the contact is platonic, I do not call it dumping. While two persons are still attempting to find out, if they are compatible enough, each has still the moral right to decide not to enter a relationship. But as soon as they are intimately involved, ending a relationship, that both had agreed to enter, by dumping is cruel, brutal, and a very serious moral transgression.
I consider poofing and dumping as the logical consequence of the spreading of the emotional plague of promiscuity as a socially accepted behavior and a social norm in modern western cultures. (More about this in entry 104, Promiscuity is Emotional Psychopathy and entry 101, Promiscuity is a Scourge of Humanity.)
Men have always been afflicted by an instinctive urge to promiscuously use women's bodies. But as long as monogamy was considered the social norm and the only morally acceptable way to maintain sexual homeostasis, men usually had at least the theoretical knowledge, that using a woman's body without commitment is doing emotional harm to her.
Since the fatal so called sexual liberation, unfortunately that knowledge has been widely lost. Today even men, who want to be good, caring and responsible men, have the fatal delusion, that if they use a woman's body for a night without being personally affected and forgetting her the next day, the woman experiences it the same way. They are oblivious of the harm done. This delusion causes serious damage to women, poofing and dumping is part of it.
Poofing and dumping men are either ignorant or unconcerned by a lack of any conscience, that when a decent and sensitive woman allows them the intimacy of her body, she entrusts her dignity to him, she trusts him, that she is valued as a bonded partner and not degraded to be used only as a body and a commodity. She trusts, that by taking possession of her body, he accepts his obligations and responsibility.
Once I was contacted on a dating site by a German, who had emigrated to some far away country as a young man and was considering returning to Germany. I exchanged a few emails with him. I got suspicious that he may be a new 'reincarnation' of someone else under a different name, whom I had been in contact with. Therefore I googled my new contact, I will call him C. I found a touching appeal of a distressed woman, asking if anybody has any information about a man with the name of C.
I talked with the woman on the phone. She told me the story. C. had been staying with her for a few weeks. When he left to return to his home, he disappeared into thin air at the place of a stopover. She never heard from him again. She wrote him emails, tried to call his land line and his cell phone, wrote him SMS, but he never replied. She was so worried, that some accident could have happened, that she even contacted the embassies.
We compared notes and she had no doubt, that my new contact was her C. At that time I shared her impression, that he was an extreme but rare case of a jerk. By now I have got aware, that such jerks are unfortunately by far not as rare. The behavior has even a name, it is called poofing and others have told their stories on dating forums.
Dumping is principally similar to poofing, but at least the jerk spares the woman to worry about him, as he declares to her in some short but unambiguous way, that he has no intention to continue the relationship. He prefers email, SMS or maybe the phone, but usually does not bother to have a personal talk about his reasons. He decides to dump, and the dumped woman has no influence upon his decision.
As long as the contact is platonic, I do not call it dumping. While two persons are still attempting to find out, if they are compatible enough, each has still the moral right to decide not to enter a relationship. But as soon as they are intimately involved, ending a relationship, that both had agreed to enter, by dumping is cruel, brutal, and a very serious moral transgression.
I consider poofing and dumping as the logical consequence of the spreading of the emotional plague of promiscuity as a socially accepted behavior and a social norm in modern western cultures. (More about this in entry 104, Promiscuity is Emotional Psychopathy and entry 101, Promiscuity is a Scourge of Humanity.)
Men have always been afflicted by an instinctive urge to promiscuously use women's bodies. But as long as monogamy was considered the social norm and the only morally acceptable way to maintain sexual homeostasis, men usually had at least the theoretical knowledge, that using a woman's body without commitment is doing emotional harm to her.
Since the fatal so called sexual liberation, unfortunately that knowledge has been widely lost. Today even men, who want to be good, caring and responsible men, have the fatal delusion, that if they use a woman's body for a night without being personally affected and forgetting her the next day, the woman experiences it the same way. They are oblivious of the harm done. This delusion causes serious damage to women, poofing and dumping is part of it.
Poofing and dumping men are either ignorant or unconcerned by a lack of any conscience, that when a decent and sensitive woman allows them the intimacy of her body, she entrusts her dignity to him, she trusts him, that she is valued as a bonded partner and not degraded to be used only as a body and a commodity. She trusts, that by taking possession of her body, he accepts his obligations and responsibility.
1. As long as they are not physically involved, he is responsible to be guided by the usual rules of correct behavior between true friends. But by getting intimately involved, he is responsible for not hurting her dignity and her feelings. He is responsible for every pain she suffers as a result of being with him, if he uses, devalues, degrades her to be a commodity at his convenience and not an equal partner in intrinsic commitment. He is responsible not only for what he does deliberately, but also for what he does accidently. He is responsible for everything experienced by her as a result of becoming intimate. A decent and mature man, who does not want this responsibility, has the moral obligation to abstain from getting involved.
2. His obligations from physical intimacy are to do anything possible to make the relationship work. If he feels an impulse to end the relationship, his duty is self-control over his impulse, his duty is to communicate with the woman about his impulse and to give her a fair chance to influence the reasons for his impulse.
- There can be a misunderstanding, that can be cleared.
- There can be a conflict, that can be solved by a compromise.
- He can have a personal or psychological problem, for which he needs to ask and accept her support.
In short, he owes the woman a chance for a shared decision based upon an agreement. The agreement can either be the decision to continue the relationship as a result of his making efforts to change his reasons for his impulse, so that he wants himself to continue the relationship. Else he owes her to communicate until she is convinced herself, that it is also better for her to end the relationship.
Physical intimacy creates both partner's duty to stay together, until they both agree to end the relationship. Of course, the intention or agreement to end the relationship can be expressed peacefully and decently by direct communication, or it can be expressed indirectly by committing a very grave moral transgression. A man, who cheats, implicitly agrees to end the relationship, even though it is not his conscious intention. Not cheating was an implicit or explicit part of the relationship deal. Breaking the deal is an implicit intention to end the relationship. That means, that when the victim of a serious transgression decides to end the relationship, this is not dumping but agreeing to the end a relationship already destroyed by the transgression.
The man, who dumps the woman, only superficially and technically ends the relationship by leaving her. In her experience, the end of the relationship is really caused by his serious moral transgression of forcing his disrespectful solitary decision upon her instead of communicating for an agreement. This destroys her trust and therefore the foundation of the relationship.
Physical intimacy creates both partner's duty to stay together, until they both agree to end the relationship. Of course, the intention or agreement to end the relationship can be expressed peacefully and decently by direct communication, or it can be expressed indirectly by committing a very grave moral transgression. A man, who cheats, implicitly agrees to end the relationship, even though it is not his conscious intention. Not cheating was an implicit or explicit part of the relationship deal. Breaking the deal is an implicit intention to end the relationship. That means, that when the victim of a serious transgression decides to end the relationship, this is not dumping but agreeing to the end a relationship already destroyed by the transgression.
The man, who dumps the woman, only superficially and technically ends the relationship by leaving her. In her experience, the end of the relationship is really caused by his serious moral transgression of forcing his disrespectful solitary decision upon her instead of communicating for an agreement. This destroys her trust and therefore the foundation of the relationship.
The jerk, who dumps a woman in search of a better commodity, but who believes in the back of his mind, that she will be available to be hoovered back at his convenience (entry 285), is not aware, that his behavior is a serious moral transgression. The woman, who allows to be hoovered back, has been desensitized to feel appropriate outrage.
It is not only sad and unfortunate, that so many jerks, psychopaths and emotional morons consider promiscutiy, dumping and poofing as acceptable behavior, it is even more sad, that many women have lost the perspective of what is acceptable behavior, they have been desensitized to consider being dumped as bad luck and not as an outrage. They believe that entering a relationship is accepting the risk of being dumped like being out in a thunderstorm and risking to be hit and hurt by a flash. Therefore too many women allow to be hoovered back by worthless psychopaths.
