...aaaand some dude just told me that this is common behaviour from women and you should treat them like bratty children using PUA, "game" and "assured mastery". I think I might have been perpetuating some PUA myths. Oops.

I think that other poster is trying a little too hard to be charitable to her. It doesn't sound like you were being socially inept. To be honest I would guess she wanted to pay so that she would retain the power and wouldn't feel obligated to go out with you again. Then when she mentioned to her friend that she had…

Yeah, I'm guessing it <i>has</i> happened at some point, but it's just too convenient a boogey-man for me not to be sceptical.

Another forum I've been hanging around on for years. Could be bullshit though.

What if he thinks of it as a mutually beneficial merger rather than a hostile takeover?

Reminds me of a "rule" that some women supposedly have where they will chastise a man for no reason on the first date just to see whether he's assertive enough to "put her in her place". I am assured that this is a real phenomenon but I'm still sceptical. Your anecdote seems like the same sort of game playing though.

Wasn't there one about strange invisible dragonfly creatures that could only be captured on film, not seen with the naked eye? I googled and it turned out it was just some sort of tearing/distortion on the film. They never even mentioned that in the "documentary" for some reason though. I think they did have a "this…

Io9 did a post comparing the two and asking whether the Hunger Games was a rip-off. Their conclusion was "meh".

I remember once Family Guy had one of the characters act racist, then get called on it and shamed. The joke was obviously at the expense of the racist character. They then had another character making offhand racist jokes and...nothing. And this was in the same episode.

Yeah, if you described life in even a "cushy" prison without mentioning that it was prison then people would think it was abusive and horrific. Every aspect of your life controlled? Working for 10 cents an hour? Mandatory cavity searches? Forced to be around people you hate all day every day?

There probably are scholars out there who write about this, I'm just not invested enough in the anime/manga/JRPG scene anymore to actually go looking.

Just a joke :P

I was going to go on a mini-rant about cultural appropriation but I've only worn a kilt once and my family tartan is hideous, so whatever.

If plaid isn't acceptable, tartan is right?

I've been watching True Blood and found myself kinda wishing Ariel Castro would get turned into a vampire so he could enjoy his sentence. Then I felt like a monster.

There we go. And yes, he's even doing the classic "contort my body so that my chest and ass are visible simultaneously" pose so common to Western comics and mocked here on Jezebel.

As a straight dude, seeing Japanese bishounen (pretty-boys) which are designed to appeal to women finally got me to see how all those muscle-bound action-hero hunks really are targeted at men's fantasies, not women's. Bishies also gave me some insight into what watching media with female protagonists must be like for…

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That makes sense.

That's interesting, so why don't companies factor that in for other size differences? I'm guessing that in bulk the difference in cose is fractional so they don't bother, it's just an excuse for this company.