It’s just shorthand for a groups of guy friends. Guys enforce norms with each other, certain behaviors are allowed and others are punished.

Exactly. Men’s ability to be romantic requires a willingness to make themselves vulnerable in front of a woman. Getting rejected after an insincere pick up line is no biggie, but only confident guys can handle a no after sharing something genuine and personal about their feelings. It’s got nothing to do with whether a…

Oh no, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with saying romantic stuff. The OP suggested guys get scorned for doing so because it amounts to showing emotion, and I think that’s inaccurate. There’s a lot of confusion about that. Guys share many emotions with each other and with women all the time. It is only very…

Ha, yes skill level varies widely. 

Men are not scorned for expressing these things, all men say them to women to get laid and have done so since forever. It’s practically a part of the guy code.

Yep. It infuriates me that we tolerate men who use emotional deception to have casual sex while we criminalize men who engage in mutually-beneficial consensual negotiated arrangements for casual sex.

He might be a douche, but not because he likes to have consensual sex with younger women. I doubt that he’s promising these women a lifetime romantic partnership. Some women like to have low-commitment consensual sex with older famous rich men. Nothing wrong with them either.  

Seriously, you can just hear the prudish tsk-tsking every time “Leo” and “model” appear in a sentence, like it’s written by a 19th century Baptist schoolmarm 

I’m gonna go with die off. We need marriage less and less everyday. Having your own place is affordable. Spouses are just as irritating as a roommate you don’t fuck. People will still date but the concept of romantic partnership will disappear

Yes I think that's the point.  Marriage was once necessary and now it's optional, so if you want it it's a ton of hard work.  Personally I'm a huge fan of skipping optional hard work but to each their own.

Nailed it.  She also forgot to use the phrase “women’s orifices” to make her point.

Thank you.  That burner sounds like the voice of Aunt Lydia. 

Yes it was a real article on jez, in The Muse. Titled something like "I'm sick of seeing asian men with white women."  Google it if you want to puke.

I think it’s awful to criticize Mindy or Kumail on those grounds. Criticize white people for their tastes, don’t criticize PoC for failing to change white people. I hate the idea that if PoC acted differently than things would be better for them. It’s the attitude of the Farrakhans of the world. I understand the…

I’ll take “Things Aunt Lydia Would Say” for $100 Alex.  

it reflects a lot of comments on Jezebel

Agree with you there. If sex workers had the same labor rights as other laborers and could legally work together in collectives, they would face much less risk and hardship than they do now.

You’re right about risks, but not about the magnitude of those risks. Tons of jobs are as risky or more risky than sex work. Construction worker, machine manufacturer worker, oil drilling worker, elevator repairman, professional athlete, skydive instructor, and dozens more jobs give you a higher risk of injury or…

True, but serial killer murders are a tiny fraction of all murders — less than one percent. That’s a minimal risk difference. All women are at least 50 times more likely to be killed by a husband or boyfriend than a serial killer, even sex working women. Its sort of like saying people who don’t swim have less risk of…

That study was the worst kind of garbage science and no one takes it seriously: