Didn't Esquire Network take the Style Network's place? I never watched the Style Network, but just from flipping thru channels I seem to recall they ran a ton of odious crap like Sex and the City. Maybe they just had those hanging around the office and decided to burn them off during the dead hours.

Never.

1. I used the word "contempt" because I thought it would smoke you out and compel you to stop trolling. So, that worked.

It might be possible for some or even many women to get laid whenever they wish. But that does not mean they can get laid by WHOMEVER they wish. If you're willing to have sex with a toothless drifter who will go down on you because he needs money for meth, you can probably have sex pretty much whenever you want it.…

It's not just "kind of awful." It's the worst thing anyone has ever done to anyone in the history of human life on this planet or any other!

Some people might say that anyone who takes advice from a "Real Housewife" deserves whatever they get. Mind you, I'm not necessarily saying it. But some would say it.

You just sort of proved my point, didn't you? Be nice to others is something people hear early and often. They either do it or do not do it. Hearing it in the popular media, especially when it is stretched out to absurd lengths, like this article was [does Gawker Media pay by the word?] is what makes it wankery.

I know what you mean. Mansplaining is a thing. Womansplaining, apparently, is not. Let's not go down that road, though. It only leads to this:

Trust me, nobody who can afford to buy or rent in San Francisco will be lonely for long.

I'd like closure before you destroy yourself.

I agree with you. I think there are some men who want to do all the asking. I don't understand those men at all, despite being a man myself, but I'm sure they are out there. But, as I noted, I think they skew older and will probably die off in a few decades.

Thanks for the advice. I'll read whatever I like, though. I'm sure you'll do the same.

It sounds like you might have gotten a bit of both. If these men know you well and never bothered to ask you out, it's probably because they don't want to date you. I have no doubt there is a percentage of men who don't want to be asked out, as I noted elsewhere. I just think that percentage is small and skews older.…

Let's just say your report on California does not square with what I've heard from other Californians. At all. Not even close.

Go for it!

You should consider throwing yourself off a cliff.

"Spend more time around unpleasant men."

Precisely.

Exactly. I've been asked out by women on a few occasions. Not often, but it does happen now and then. Some I accepted, some I declined. But I never declined because I didn't want to be asked out by a woman. I declined because I didn't want to be asked out by THAT woman.

Maybe you got turned down because the man did not want to date you. That doesn't mean he does not want to be asked out on dates by women. Maybe he just didn't want to be asked out by you.