Ouch!

While I still have a few years (though not nearly enough) to go before I hit the 40 mark, and even though I may qualify as a "born again" virgin, I'm not actually a virgin, I do have to say that based on what I've seen I feel a certain (understandable) affinity for Steve Carell's character in the upcoming move "The 40 Year-Old Virgin."
I was reading an article about audience research that the movie's director performed, and in it I came across this quote that hit painfully close to home:

"Another dilemma: At one stage in the film's evolution, Andy himself proved a distraction. Universal executives had told Apatow that they were afraid Andy might come across at best as a creepy loner and at worst a serial killer."

I've often thought about how being alone can become a sort of self-perpetuating cycle: the more time you spend alone, the weirder you become and are perceived to be, which tends to keep people away, which leaves you alone, which leads to becoming and being perceived as being weird, which...
Of course, I have time to think about that sort of thing because, being a creepy loner(albeit harmless, though no one is willing to take that chance, because I'm a creepy loner), there's no one around to distract me.
*Sigh*