BertoneBeatle wrote:stillanerd wrote:BertoneBeatle wrote:What kills me is Peter still blames Spider-Man for the dissolution of that relationship when reading in order, it appears to Betty's fault. She eventually drives Peter away with the Ned stuff as issue 30 shows. Peter not telling her he was Spider-Man didn't end the relationship nor did him missing dates end it...it was Betty constantly giving him the cold shoulder because she thought he was a cheater...so she dated Ned...threw it in Peter's face...invited him over the house to tell him that Ned proposed and then when Peter had enough and started ignoring her, Betty left town. How is that Spider-Man's fault?
Well, in all fairness, Bertone, if you recall issue #17, I think it was, Peter was going to go to Flash's "Spider-Man Fan Club" as Spider-Man but realized he couldn't ask Betty to go for that same reason. And as you well know, during the fight between himself, the Green Goblin, and the Human Torch, Spidey changed back into Peter and ran into Liz Allan. And while the blond boy-stealer was running her fingers through his hair, Betty just happened to see this, thus naturally concluding he was two-timing her with Liz. And who do we see Betty going out on a date with the very next issue? Why Ned Leeds, of course, working her little plan to try and get Peter jealous by making him think she wasn't going to wait around for him and wasn't a needy, emotional basket-case. Of course, her plan worked TOO well. And it all started because Peter had to be at that "Spider-Man Fan Club" as Spidey.
Betty never told Peter she wanted to go to the club meeting. She just silently waited to ask him. Why would he ask, especially after she speech she gave him about not liking Spider-Man at the end of issue 11?
She told him in issue 18 that he knew she wanted to go....HOW?
Because, just like most what most women assume about men, she expected Peter to be a mind-reader.
And Liz running her fingers through his hair doesn't equal cheating.
Cheating, no. But when a woman runs her fingers through a man's hair--or touches him in a playful way--it's definitely flirting. And it wasn't like Peter was putting up much of a resistance in those instances. Granted, Betty has insecurity issues, or else she wouldn't have been so jealous of every woman who paid the slightest bit of attention to Peter.
Peter tried MANY times to explain things to her and she wouldn't listen. She did EVERYTHING to push him away...and then was frightened when GASP he was pushed away.
Sorry not buying that it was Spidey's fault.
That's why I said her attempt to make Peter jealous by going out with Ned in the vain hope that Peter would "stop seeing other women" and come back to her royally backfired. Because not only did Peter eventually drop her like a bad habit, she wound up liking and marrying Ned because he was more "attentive" to her. At least until he was before they got married.
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