I think you veer into hyperbole, sure rejection hurts, but generally a polite inquiry will be met with a polite decline if she isn’t interested. I’ve feilded date requests from friends or strangers....

i still approach men but DUDE it’s not that easy. men have fucked up ideas about what they expect from women, you know (just like women have fucked up ideas about men). it’s not always great for a guy’s ego, because y’all men are fucking emotional assholes.

Not being able to read subtle cues isn’t a crime but it is a major social disadvantage. Not listening when a woman clearly is letting you know she’s not interested is the actual big deal.

Women aren’t the “sole arbiters of what constitutes harassment,” you demi-sentient trilby hat.

Well, yeah...this is human nature. Men don’t exactly want “unwanted attention” either—women are the same. Some of this is a matter of learning better how to accept rejection—accept “no” and move on like a well-adjusted human being, then try again with someone else.

While women may not be doing the approaching as often as men do, that doesn’t mean that they’re standing around doing nothing. As I told Shy Guy last time, women who are interested in being approached put quite a bit of effort into being approachable. From the way they dress to the waythey signal to people they’re…

The prospect of obtaining obscene amounts of wealth motivate policy creation in more instances than you care to admit with the proof being the constant existence of large pockets of poverty in the U.S. and a growing concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer people. Did Congress just pass a new tax plan to benefit…

“Often want...”? Who says? Do you will yourself to believe that all public policy is good public policy when inflicted upon the underrepresented (shut up and take this help)? I don’t know what low income community you’ve ever grown up in, lived in temporarily, or served in, but twisted preconceptions seem to have…

Those Giants defenses had more talent at every spot across the front four than the team did at QB.

Couldn’t we actually say that we’re only saddled with Donald Trump in the first place because black voters didn’t turn out in 2016?

Hahaha I love that Eli is held up as the shining example of mediocrity, and yet Drew lumps Andrew Luck (he of the 87.3 QB rating, if we’re using that as a benchmark) in with Aaron Rodgers.

I heartily agree that Disney’s former child stars are almost all fucked-up when they’re done (Emily Osment seems to be a rare exception, I hope, but even she walked away from Hollywood for several years after Hannah Montana), but Nickelodeon is much, much worse. That network deserves a head-to-toe purging, like…

The plural of anecdote, as they say, is not data, no matter how strongly stupid people believe otherwise.

the many spam-like cash offers received to evacuate my three bdrm apartment

I suppose you can call an equitable distribution of resources, to correct an unfair distribution of resources explicitly and purposefully created by policy, a “subsidy,” if you wish, but then what do you call the existing inequitable distribution? Just “the way things are, shrug, too bad?” No— the existing state is…

I said nothing about having a right to live wherever you want. You were sobbing about how people only think gentrifying is bad when minorities get kicked out, but no one complained when Jewish and Dutch families left the neighborhood.

It’s not “gentrification or nothing” man. There’s a happy middle somewhere that white hipsters have a lot of difficulty understanding.

ink! and other businesses can do their gentrifying/improving communities that may or may not be worth endorsing without being openly disrespectful to the communities they’re attempting to serve.

There’s a difference between leaving a neighborhood because you’re moving up the economic ladder, and being forced out of a neighborhood because you can no longer afford it.

The scrape-offs came first. The housing prices skyrocketed, second—and I do mean skyrocketed. The businesses started showing up later. Why don’t you spend a little more time researching a subject instead of talking out your ass about it?