I'm afraid I have not the expertise to answer that question! Aside from being 15 years younger, we might be in sufficiently different environments (Melbourne, AU, don't know where you live!). My friend is 42 and looks a decade or so younger, and he's artistic and a singer and good looking in a very weird way, and he…

That's just being a dude on Tinder. It's the same for everyone. It might take a while to figure out which are your best photos, also, but realistically girls match effectively whomever they want and guys have a 1:50 match rate. But it means you're not wasting your time composing messages to people who aren't going to…

I recommend Tinder over OKC. I've done both. On OKC you have to sell yourself, write a profile… it's all too fake for my liking. As a straight man, you write messages and hope the woman likes it — and isn't too inundated by messages in the first place to actually see it. As a woman, you have to wade through a swamp of…

I don't know about that being a "woman superhero" thing — consider Superman in season 1 of JL. A show in which, incidentally, Superman had to wear a space suit in order to breath outside the atmosphere.

a woman crying about a chicken and a baby?? i thought this was supposed to be a comedy!

You lost all right to a civil discussion when you said that the show was "as progressive as possible… And the SJWs still find things to complain about". You said it to shut down people who argue for things like diversity and representation. You said it to insult the writer for having a position you didn't like. You…

I wrote a lengthy reply to this that was eaten by the Disqus black hole. God damn Disqus.

I can't believe nobody nominated this. Those drumsticks.

Charisma. We have natural charisma.

And Rosario Dawson in e12 was welcome, too (but I hadn't seen that yet, and neither had Caroline at the time of writing). Yeah, it was a small exaggeration. Point taken.

Nobody was talking to you, or about your personal pain. You interjected yourself into it. When Men's Rights Activists throw tantrums about circumcision as one of the weapons on their toolbelt, making fun of them is on the menu. And, speaking from experience as a white man with the accompanying sense of entitlement,…

I'm sorry — excuse me — what??

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I've been revisiting the SL section so much lately! People do come back and reply, but I never really get to feel like I'm part of the group, more like a hanger-on who pops up to say "me too!" after everyone has already said everything of note. Not that anyone here ever contributes to…

Well, I apologise for making certain assumptions about your intentions, but your third paragraph goes some way to acknowledge why that assumption is not entirely unreasonable. Frankly, I've only ever seen the issue "proselytised" (which you were doing, by inserting your point of view into other people discussing…

I'm not sure universe-building will be in the top 3 most egregious sins committed by that movie. I hold out hope, but it's a tiny, weak hope, like a mosquito with a broken wing.

The SL comment sections are amazing, and I'm so sour that being on the other side of the globe precludes me from getting in on the ground floor every week. I've been reading and very occasionally commenting here at the AVC for years, only really recently being a bit more active, and I feel like the timezone…

What do you think that would have achieved?

I once pursued a girl so desperately I was at her beck and call at all times, despite it being fairly clear she was never going to have sex with me. She led me on heaps, though, and engaged in all kinds of sexy texting and picture swapping. One night she came over — she asked in advance if it was OK that she crash —…

Basically every word of this resonates with me big time, except I never read Missoula.

My impression of Kirk Van Houten singing "Can I Borrow A Feeling" has won me much acclaim at parties and contributed to me getting laid on at least — and at most — one occasion. It's a good impression.