I am posting this to be responded to...
Guess that makes me a player...or am I?
Is there a middle ground?
Dating seems much more noble, doesn't it...at least the way the paragraph is worded.
Player seems really low, yes?
Dating is the activity of looking for a suitable partner for a relationship. The word refers to two daters agreeing on a time and date when they can meet and engage in some activity, thereby assessing their suitability for one another. Typically a person may date many different partners during the same time period in order to have the best chance of finding their most suitable available mate.
A womanizer, player, or philanderer is a man who engages in love affairs with women he cannot or will not marry. The love affairs are typically sexually motivated, with little emotional attachment. The most famous of these is typically Giacomo Casanova, though his motivations and level of commitment are debatable.
There is no corresponding term of "manizer" in the language as yet, although the type can be found to exist; some use the term, "maneater", as in the 1982 Hall & Oates hit song "Maneater". A famous literary example might be Lady Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, a woman of a certain age who chases a nineteen-year-old matador. Blanche DuBois, the third member of a sexual triangle in A Streetcar Named Desire by the playwright Tennessee Williams, is another example. Ariel Levy reports in Female Chauvinist Pigs that women are also now being referred to as players if they treat sex in a similar manner to male players.
[edit]Fictional womanizers/players
Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko)
Brad Burns (Virtua Fighter)
Boomhauer (King of the Hill)
Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H)
Captain Kloss
Bruce Wayne
James Bond
Chef (South Park)
Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)
Denny Crane (Boston Legal)
Alan Shore (Boston Legal)
George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth (Arrested Development)
...by the way, both definitions are gleaned from wikipedia.
Does Bruce Wayne really count since it was a cover, and Batman was his real identity?
A humorous note...Hawkeye and James Bond are two of my favorite characters! LOL
