Yeah I thought it was ridiculous too.

“Admitting that it is not a bad thing”? Am I correct in that you are saying prison rape is not all that bad?

“You do see a difference between being in public alone (like on a train, or at coffee shop) and participating on an online dating site? Surely, you must be able to discern the difference.”

When the rubber hits the road and and both agree to meet in person what are we left with? Two complete strangers who “trust” the…

Let’s be clear. When I stated “I was probably being too provocative” this was a statement referring to it being perceived as being provocative rather than a provocative position I was taking.

I never complained no woman wanted to be around me. So I “need” better males and acquaintances? Really. And all your friends are feminists? Cheers.You just nutted out your own world view cocoon of blindness that fails to recognise that in the wider community women asking men out is NOT the norm.

Congratulations you are the first to deal the “misogyny” card. Dunce hat for not having any evidence to back such libel up. Little dewdrop I have posted evidence that this is not the case in the wider community

Can we sing instead? Apologies for song probably due to the bathtub of meth I smoked last night...no really not. Just being silly.

Nothing compels me to ask strangers out on a date I just do not hold the view it should be prohibitive. I consider it healthy to enjoy the company of strangers with good conversation.

Where is the equality whereby women in society are denied access to a large segment of society due to perceived “stranger danger”.…

So what? I am not sure how to reply to that?

When the opening line is “your opinion is garbage” it shifted the burden of rebuttal on to me. I posted an initial comment. I attempted to explicate a position People replied and still are. I have notifications that people are engaging. The replies are sometimes questions. You might not be interested but from the…

You might abide by the rule however others may not. In the absence of not knowing what rules people have, splitting the bill equally is the fairest approach with the least amount of complexities. I am not sure why you cannot see this.

Fair enough.

I was probably being too provocative. I think I read about it somewhere on a another article on Jezebel and was on my mind.So you are right by itself it did not need to be in there given the context of this article.

However the sucess of Internet dating says othwerise. These are all strangers (unless of course you stumble across someone you know). I guess I am a bit of idealist in one way that I believe the health of a community is judged by how well people interact with strangers. And I don’t mean asking them out or intruding…

It was in response to the view that “masculinity is fragile” some people tend to propagate. I was just stating mine is not so. Was nothing more. Perhaps I should have mentioned this in the original post.

The art of civil discourse?

Sign. Another straw man. No I never said women are to blame for their harassment. This interface I admit is hard to follow discussion threads however if you do read some posts I made I attempted to explicate my point of view. This said that by increasing equality in initial communication of the dating game it may…

errr. No you haven’t got me. I said nothing of the sort in any of the posts I have put up.

That’s the point - it didn’t. No fragility here.

I can see your point however the article does mention the type of contact as annoyance that women are also wishing to reduce. It even lists the dialogue as an “annoying man” and gives examples of such.