That’s an interesting take, and I agree. Then it sort of goes back to the article’s main point - that literary alphas like Darcy are “natural” alphas, who don’t have to intentionally strategize to achieve it. He genuinely doesn’t think the girls at the ball are worth his time, whereas PUAs expend a huge amount of time…

It could be in different circumstances, but I think it only counts as negging if the intention is to make a girl more receptive to your advances. Darcy was not interested in pursuing Elizabeth at all at that time, so he really didn’t have any sinister underlying motivations.

Not really. He criticized her appearance when he first saw her, but he was talking to his friend and didn’t mean for her to overhear. Then he pretty swiftly started to warm to her once he got to know her, and he regularly complimented her. The trouble was, she was convinced that he still disdained her, because of that…

Exception that proves the rule. That woman seems totally crazy and unhinged because no normal woman would behave that way.

They always bring up the women with purses as the equivalent, but there’s a big difference. If I see a purse taking up a seat, I’ve never experienced any issues in politely asking them to move it. Never once in my life has a woman refused to move her purse for me. Try getting a man to stop spreading and see how they…

Never visit the linguistics department at any respectable university. You will be so disgusted that I would fear for your health.

I suspect razjm probably does say ‘Paris’ with the French pronunciation and just doesn’t get why that’s insufferable.

Your entire post could have been, “No one invites me to parties anymore,” and we would have gotten the gist of it.

Thanks :)

The point of the comment was to add another anecdote about how so many white kids have a somewhat unnatural fascination with Japanese culture, as you can see by the fact that Japanese history classes are full of white kids.

What an illuminating insight. Thank you for your incredibly valuable contribution to this discussion.

I guess it depends on how aggressively the server emphasized his own pronunciation. OP obviously wants us to think he was being a dick about it, by using the all caps, while referring to her own correction as “really polite.” But “OK, I’ll order your ____ right away,” is not usually considered a dickish thing for a…

Presumably the first dirty glance was simply because she didn’t like to have her date order for her.

She wanted to make sure we knew that she wasn’t really just a lowly hostess.

I side with your server there. I know you were technically correct about the original Italian pronunciation, but when there has been a nearly universal shift in the pronunciation of a word as it passed into the language you are speaking, you’re kind of being a dick to criticize someone for pronouncing it the same way…

Yeah, the autism was buried inside her only legit point - that it’s annoying when people who don’t know what they’re talking about try to give you advice on how to raise your kids.

I almost feel bad for her though. She is clearly driving herself into a complete mental breakdown any day now, and she will have absolutely no friends left around her when it happens. Her poor kids.

That is the worst thing I’ve ever read. I hate you a little for exposing me to that woman.

I feel pretty confident in asserting that you don’t ‘get’ Her. FFS, you haven’t even watched the whole film.

Thanks for saying everything I was thinking about Her, so I didn’t have to. Ironic that someone who names themselves after a famous story about the blurred line between humans and AI would have such trouble understanding Her.