I don’t disagree, especially if we’re talking high school/college levels of maturity here, but that in and of itself is just a coat of paint on the centuries’, if not millennia old “play hard to get” advice. Nobody, man or woman, likes someone to seem desperate. It’s boner/ladyboner kryptonite.

Fair enough, but those are the three things that actually work. If you’ve ever seen a “neg” in action in real life, it’s comedy gold, and in real life, women flee from men who are constantly trying to touch them, not the other way around. Any “success” someone’s going to have through “PUA” techniques are going to be a…

See, this is what I don’t get about the whole PUA sub-culture. All of this advice boils down to:

Holy shit, I’ve never actually met another person who was also allergic to raw tomatoes before!

Interesting point. I’ve been playing multiplayer FPS games for over a decade, but I only recently got into MOBAs (specifically, League) and that was one thing I noticed: if something happens, it’s never, ever a result of your opponent’s skill. It is ALWAYS (at least, according to your teammates) because you fucked up.…

I don’t think a lot of guys realize just how horrifying it is to be hit on by fully grown men when you’re just a young girl yourself. Maybe they’re think that they would have been delighted if an older woman hit on them when they were boys, or maybe it’s because there’s this societal rhetoric that women like older…

Thing is, though, I wouldn’t feel “glee” if they weren’t wearing heels/visibly straining to be taller than I am. There are plenty of short people I find deeply intimidating; none of them, however, seem to give two shits that other people are taller than them, let alone hobble themselves out of insecurity/vanity. I’m…

I’ve never really understood the “heels = power” line of reasoning. They physically hobble the user, and make her look like she’s insecure about her height and the way her legs look.

And guys, apparently!

I’m 5’11”, very fit, and have never struggled to put a bag into an overhead bin in my life... and I still get guys just grabbing my bag and hoisting it up or yanking it out without even asking me if I need help, let alone me asking them. (Occasionally this leads to lolarity when they can’t actually lift it.) I can’t…

How aggressive were you about it? I got dates in Japan when I lived there, but I found that you absolutely had to be the one to make the first move. You can’t expect them to be the ones to hit on you.

No A cup, eh. I cannot approve of a sports bra that doesn’t come in my size for Best Sports Bra. Fail.

No A cup, eh. I cannot approve of a sports bra that doesn’t come in my size for Best Sports Bra. Fail.

I don't know, it looks a little ridiculous, but I suppose if, like knitting, after it's been "reclaimed" the hipster men start doing it too, I'd be okay with it. Why not. Then it's just an impractical display of prowess rather than hearkening back to a sexist, sex-phobic past, like swimming butterfly rather than…

I’m not really sure you’re going to get too many people defending it; it’s more of a hypothetical “oh we shouldn’t shame people for being naturally thin” ideal than something that many people have experience with in practice.

I was at 16.8 this time last year while I was doing some pretty rigorous athletic training (I’ve since toned down the cardio and upped the strength training and I’m back up to 18.5). I’ve been thin almost my entire life, but I’ve also been an avid fitness lover my entire life.

Yeah, this is sexy girl in implausible armor done right. She's not arched backwards to a spine-breaking degree to show off her ass and tits at the same time, she's not making an o-face at the viewer, she has a waist wide enough to hold all of her internal organs. In other words, she's not exploitative or insulting to…

weights strapped around their stomach to make sure they don't rise to the surface (enough to instill panic in just about any person, I'd think

Vancouver Island high five!

As a Canadian, I don't know how to feel about that one. I'm all for an acknowledgement of colonization and First Nations' rights, but it's not like I have another "native land," you know? If this isn't it, then what is? If there was a lot of call for it among First Nations groups, I'd be down with it, though.

We sang "in all of us command" in my high school over a decade ago. That said, it's true that our Parliament is full of mouldering dinosaurs, so I don't have much faith this will succeed either.