I’ll leave this here (^o^)

Dating in D.C. is like the Hunger Games, but you don’t even get the fun of shooting a bow and arrow. It really is the worst.

So your decision is based on a meaningless median number that does not factor in career choices, work/life balance decisions, hours worked etc. instead of your income vs the income of your date?

You know what, this is one of those gender imbalances that isn’t going to be corrected unless women take the initiative.

Here’s the catch though; not offering to pick up the check oftentimes also decreases the chance for a second date, at least that was my experience, back when I was still dating (8 years ago). You don’t want to be seen as a cheapskate. Classic catch-22.

I’m single and currently not actively dating in part because the dating scene is just annoying to me (particularly in the DC area, and I’m headed back there in a few months). It feels like there are all of these weird games of managing perception, and I just don’t roll that way at all. What you see is pretty much what…

Because you never know, is she offering to be polite? Or because of the reasons from the article? Or because she’s not interested?

I agree with this except we still live at a time where far too many women feel they can’t ask a man out (and too many men feel uncomfortable with being asked out by a woman) thus men end up paying more often. So the problem isn’t quite solved.

Am I really the only one who at least tries to get the guy to let me chip in for half?

I agree with this so much. Women are socialized in ways that can make communication needlessly complicated and indirect. The answer to this problem is not to train men to translate all that bullshit, it’s to move everyone in the direction of more honest and direct communication. As a fairly direct woman, I’ve faced no…

Not if woman beaten up is also on team pickpocket.

It’s nice to see a guy hosing the ex and taking all her money for once. #equalityformenindivorce

Titpocketing

She’s not my hero. She drove drunk and is choosing to make light of her punishment instead of accepting the consequences.

Man, we be adults now. That’s like having a full bar in your basement and deciding to fish an O’Doul’s out of the fridge instead.

I’m on Team Denise. Kermit deserves a woman who appreciates him for the kind hearted frog he is and won’t karate chop him 10 times a day.

‘The rest of it was “maybe this but also maybe the opposite”. ‘

Tl;dr - Women who present themselves in a heteronormative feminine way such as maintaining a certain weight or wearing their hair a certain way in order to be attractive to men and therefore “snag a man” are, in fact, trying to “snag a man”.

Oh don’t you remember that woman who raped her 13/14 year old student in washington? That was her excuse- he looked so good, so mature. *barf*

First off, you have no idea what I equate anything with because you don’t know me. Secondly, if I did equate “D” and “DD” with “large breasts” (I don’t like the word “tits”), why would that be something to be ashamed of? It’s certainly not insulting or demeaning to anyone to think that if a woman wears a size D cup,…