Your follow-up puns are great, so I’m inclined to like you, but your first post sounds like, “no men are allowed to post in this thread, even if they agree that cunnilingus is awesome.” Tough to know how to contribute to the dialogue if even a supportive opinion is unwelcome.

Holy crap. A Jezebel-linked article that advocates for a man to have an opinion? Where’s PearlieMae to quash this?

OK, internet tough guy.

Your lack of reading comprehension and perspective isn’t my problem. And, my last post wasn’t talking to you. Grow up.

There’s obviously a disconnect between the genders on initial (and many other forms of) interaction. This article is evidence of that. Our continued debate on the topic is evidence of that. It must be important to you, or else you wouldn’t keep writing about it. I know it’s important to me, and I wish the disconnect…

Actually, you’re the one who’s not listening. You’re the one who’s clueless. You’re the one bleating. Seriously. Re-read honestly and objectively and you’ll see that I’ve been civil. You’ve been awful.

“People should be mean.” Says a lot about you.

Put that shoe on the other foot and see how ugly it looks.

False.

Yes, talking to other humans is optional, and sometimes difficult. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. I don’t know where you live, but in the major metropolitan city where I do, meeting people on the street really is something that “normally-socialized people do,” not just “pathetic and desperate” people, I…

Not much for civil discourse, are you? Maybe one day you’ll be able to see past your own nose.

Your questions all seem to amount to your first one:

Oh, and your response about my table-waiting metaphor has absolutely no bearing on my point. My point was that the job is difficult, and no one who hasn’t ever done it has a right to say (or snarkily imply) otherwise. If the first line of a male author’s article read: “Having menstrual cramps can be hard for women, or…

So, you have no interest in helping to solve the problems with inter-gender social dynamics, you just want to pick fights about them. Fine. I suppose that’s your prerogative, but you’re just exacerbating things.

Neither is telling people to go fuck themselves. You totally missed my point and your knee-jerk anger isn’t helping - if anything, you’re part of the problem.

Sure, but I’m an avid reader, and if I see someone reading something that I might be interested in, or have read, then we may have some common ground and enjoy a conversation about it. I’ve met new friends/dates on train platforms and park benches because they’re reading something and are open to talking about it. If…

“What do you think will change under you proposed plan?”

No argument - that’s how I operate.

Unnecessarily hostile and missing my point entirely.

I’m not arguing against that in the least and I completely agree.