No you are conflating two separate issues. I was arguing that if more women were empowered to ask men out it would reduce the total men in the dating pool doing the asking. Purely a numerical argument.

If you read some of my prior posts I agree the 2 question rule is a good solution (although a little simplistic to a…

It was part of an ongoing discussion re: an inital post I put up about encouraging more women to ask men out. This may (or may not) result in perceived societal benefits by reducing the amount of unwanted communication by men as it reduces the total men in the dating pool. The discussion raised some interesting points…

Yes. The graphics illustrate the differences. On a side note if you have ever been on the london tube in peak hour the last things on many people’s minds is flirting - it’s packed, really packed. You adopt what is known as the “tube face” by staring blankly into space and trying to avoid people’s armpits or whatever…

“You say a single response is enough, but if you believed that, and that a woman is not further beholden why isn’t that the end of the discussion?”

I didn’t say the article was about “facilitating dates”. I made an initial comment about empowering women to ask men out and the discussion flowed from there.

You commented on my post. I replied. Sigh. Do you value hearing other views, opinions, disagreement to your own?

Which post? I cannot see which post you replied to?

Socially inept morons do not have the social skill to communicate civilly in public with members of the opposite sex.

Why are you so against something (ie. more women asking men out) that may enact social change for the betterment of women and men?

After all you could take charge of the dating dynamic and empower women to feel less threatned by deciding where the date is to be and maybe even picking a man up in your own car?

The view that women are human has not yet been fully established.

Do have anything to say mutton chops?

Thanks for the response.

1. So engaging in conversations with my male friends and acquaintances about feminist issues is now obsessive and strange? We are not all meat pies, kangaroos and holden cars. I love the pattern here. An immediate ad hominem that is based on what? You guessed it nothing.

2. I quoted a study (Mills, Janiszewska &…

If feminism is as you claim teaching women to ask men out it is not doing a very good job of it. I cited a study in a prior post “a great majority of the women, 93%, preferred to be asked out - only 6% perferred to do the asking”

Sorry mate. Already tried men did not like it. Masculinity intact.

Tony I cannot see your argument through all the straw...man. What are you talking about? When did I say I missed out on a date because a “woman felt to womanly” to ask me out. Please go ahead and bet money as this is not a position I stated. And now I have “wild blind arrogance” because I cannot get every woman I ever…

OK. I understand what you are saying. Perhaps you are right. People are so different and have so many different personalities (eg. intoverted/extroverted) that sometimes I wonder how we got this far as a species and is it all down to pot luck or random encounters (I understand that many on this site are not…

You seem very knowledgeable with my personal experiences. I have been grabbed on the butt in bars by women - does that count? I am trying to rack my brains if I have been asked out by a woman on a date and still nothing. I suppose I am a bit past it anyways. Used to have the gusto to approach women in bars in my…

My grammar is appalling.

No I don’t assume women want to be asked out constantly and low and behold men are not always on the lookout. To also add men talk to women and it’s not all about sex. Men can have an intellectual conversation about issues apart from sex.