Oh gosh, I guess I better stop lying then if it reflects poorly on me. I mean, the time I was physically attacked by a man I rejected in no uncertain terms is really a small price to pay so that the larger subset of men don't have to lie awake wondering whether I really have a boyfriend or just wasn't interested in…

You are correct: "those" men who do not take rejection well and act out on it ARE a very small percentage of the population.

If someone offers me a bowl of M&Ms and tells me 10% are poisoned, am I going to take any? Women lie about having boyfriends because we don't know which clueless asshole is going to try and physically hurt us to try force his way past a polite rejection. Yep, it's small subset but some of them are fucking dangerous…

It's a white lie. I'll take a no; if given a choice I'd rather take "I have a boyfriend." Both will get rid of me. The latter makes me feel like less of a repulsive troll.

This is good Kinja.

Those are asses so it's safe to say you don't have a fucking clue what to do when it comes to the ladies.

1. It spares their feelings and 2. it hopefully doesn't lead to a violent freakout like a straight-up rejection might. Both of these things are pretty obvious, not sure why you're confused.

If you honestly have to ask, you probably won't acknowledge the answer but here it goes.

An artist's depiction of Lily's editor hanging out in this comments section

Can someone at Deadspin please change "dent" to "deny"? It's killing me.

"Ve are looking for Nuclear Wessels."

PHASE I: VIDEO GAMES

Big shoes to fill.

Glad to see that once Wolf Blitzer dies/retires, Don Lemon is ready to fill his shoes as dumbest CNN guy.

We need to take this to its next logical conclusion and have the mothers of Congressional members present when they vote on bills that mandate paid maternity/sick leave or restrict access to abortion.

A guy once followed me and kept shoving his phone in my face demanding I give him my number. This went on for like five minutes of my walk. Eventually I grabbed it, went to the "mom" contact and threatened to call her. He hightailed it very quickly.

Tbh I just felt like making a dick joke.

WELL........yes. LOL. It could and probably would, cost you more than the savings you pocketed...ie: your job.

WELL........yes. LOL. It could and probably would, cost you more than the savings you pocketed...ie: your job.

Good luck with that. From what I read (someone on the internet contacted Amazon customer service regarding this) $72 is only for new customers that never had Prime before. If you cancel and re-sign up tomorrow you'll still get the $99 price.

Good luck with that. From what I read (someone on the internet contacted Amazon customer service regarding this)…