“women don’t want a sad sack they’re going to have to “fix.” They want an adult.”

Honestly, I think that men like this, and their less extreme brethern who never commit any crimes, are unlikely to ever have wives or girlfriends to treat as domestic slaves and sex objects.

I’m actually a handsome son of a bitch. I have to fight the off with a stick.

“If men knew how to approach women, there would be fewer losers, not more.”

Yes. That is an excellent point. Dating without sex would relieve a lot of pressure for both men and women. It seems like the college dating scene is pretty much this: People go to party, two people are attracted to each other (or Person A is attracted to B, and B just goes along with it), and they go back to their…

Absolutely! It astounds me that so few authors give us fully-realized, complex, realistic characters. It’s even more astounding how badly some widely-praised authors write the opposite sex.

I always play “Spit on a Stranger” for a woman I want to get serious with.

I’m relatively conventionally attractive, have a Masters degree but I’m only 5'10 😩

I have a good friend who is unbelievably intelligent and accomplished. She believes that the main reason she can’t land a dude is because they must all be too intimidated by her credentials. Although this might be part of the problem, the other part is that she has her heart set on a younger guy who must be very…

Pulease! As if girls don’t do the same thing talking to their girlfriends. I have heard it.

Eh. I’ve had plenty of dudes run screaming from me based on my intellect/job/demanding personality. I’ve also dated guys that found those traits really attractive. It’s almost as if men are all unique beings with their own likes and desires...

‘Real relationships take work’

This is why the traditional rules and roles (a.k.a. patriarchy) aren’t helping anyone.

The most attractive person in the room is the one sleeping with you that night. :-P

Also, as noted in the conclusion of this piece, there’s a sense that meeting anyone in the same boat would just be *settling*, rather than a relationship where both parties truly liked and desired one another.

Not fucking long enough.

So, who thinks the IRGC is just fucking with Rouhani and his diplomacy faction? Those guys are basically Iran’s Tea Party. Same big money interests hiding behind belligerent bluster, too. They want a wrench in normalization just as much as Tom Cotton does.

So every time these stories come up I get the line about how so few people lie about rape that we should just believe everybody.

I’m reading the court documents now — I’d repost, but my access is through work and I don’t know how PACER permissions work and don’t want to get smacked down — and the “serial liar” claim relates primarily to the fact Jackie told Ryan (the guy she apparently made up the rape to impress) that she was DYING OF LUPUS.

In fact, the best thing for actual rape survivors is to be seen to go as far as legally possible against those who deliberately make false allegations. This tiny minority of accusers makes it much harder for other victims to be believed. If there’s a perception of there being a harsh punishment for deliberately false…