They're major-junior hockey players — legitimate NHL prospects who often leave home at 14-15 to play on those teams. They're treated like gods and get away with WAY more than they should.

The best birth control is putting the dick down ladies

First, thank you for reducing the entirety of my statement to "soapboxing." Such measured consideration of my words is deeply appreciated.

I enjoy your tone and writing and content. I wouldn't* keep arguing this point with somebody who has a sad at the word "disgust". I do hope you keep writing though.

I wish they didn't!!!
I have been in really complicated relationships with really manipulative guys. They were soooooooo skilled and subtle at it. Best strategies ever, I swear

Plus what is it with this? Why would you call straight men stupid to be able to do it? They are not stupid. Basically, everyone is capable of…

They're more than welcome to say that someone shouldn't be in a relationship, especially if the person they're being judgmental towards has shown a clear indication to consider women objects, opportunists, or whores, which the person who wrote that letter clearly did.

That person should not be in a relationship until…

I'm in the same boat as Arnheim, my wife is in the military. When she's away for long periods of time for whatever reason, I don't worry about her cheating on me at all... Her being killed, injured, sexually assaulted, or unfairly treated by an overzealous and uncaring military bureaucracy are all things that I worry…

I feel like a lot of guys act like this but then tell women to "go back to Jezebel" because OBVIOUSLY women don't really read Kotaku. Except that every day I wonder why I even bother after reading slew after slew of hateful, misogynistic asshole rants.

What about girls who are taller than most guys? Can they control their height, to expand their dating pool by your standards? And I'm with the others laughing at your "woman can control their weight" statement.

Oh I know, that shit is ridiculous. I'm barely 5'3, so usually I don't have that issue with either gender, but I seriously dated a guy who felt insecure about the fact that he was only a couple inches taller than me. What? Why in the world would that possibly be a problem? He even got a little melancholy when I would…

THE VAST MAJORITY OF MESSAGES ARE LIKE THIS

Honestly? It's both.

A lot of guys - and to be honest, it's mostly guys - buy into a lot of bullshit when it comes to dating, whether it's the classic "women only like assholes" or the Friend Zone or the idea that women are "the gatekeepers" of sex.

My philosophy when it comes to dating is that you do much better when…

Uh, yeah.

You're probably going to have someone fight you on that "women can control their weight" comment.

You know what, I have a question, Dr. Nerdlove. So many of these questions that you address boil down basically to "I treat women like objects, but they don't react like objects. Why?" That is to say, so many of your answers end up needing to include baseline information like "He's not your competition because this…

Didn't you hear? Women are just a bunch of uptight misandrists with nothing to really fear.

.....Does that not count the whole "is this guy going to flip out and do something dangerous if I end up rejecting him after the date"? I feel like it should.

The defendants' lawyer is pissed that the child porn law is being applied in a way he claims is outside of the intention of the law and vows to fight the charges tooth and nail.