The Emo One

My friend Filomena is, admittedly, a pimpette. She attracts guys easily and usually manages to reel in a few at a time. She has recently had a problem with guys who get attached. Too quickly, too much and too often. They want to talk about feelings and other nonsense that she's just not interested in.

One recent example of her many emotional hook-ups was a guy, let's call him "Westchester". Filomena and Westchester started hooking up and all was going pretty well. She took him to a sorority formal and they talked daily during Christmas break, even spending New Year's Eve together. Filomena was having a good time. She genuinely liked Westchester most of the time. Upon returning to school, she got busy with other things and got bored with him. So she gradually stopped talking to him and moved onto bigger and better things.

Westchester apparently was not bored with the situation. And he began whining to Filomena that she was too busy for him and how upset he was when she didn't call him for a couple of days at a time. He'd say "you don't like me" and "you found another guy", and all sorts of things she didn't care to hear. Filomena was unruffled by this and continued on with her life. But why are some guys just so emotional?

Isn't the stereotype that girls are emotional and needy, and that guys are the ones that are just in it for the hook-up? What is wrong with these guys that they get so attached? Is Filomena special? (I think so) Or are some guys just overly emotional and needy, while many of us girls are not? If they were just hooking up, is it so hard for him to understand her moving on? Or was he more hurt by the fact that she ditched him before he had a chance to? Did he like her that much or was it just a blow to the ego that got him down? And since when was this role-reversal becoming so common? Is this emo-evolution or what?