The difference is intent. Women who post those kinds of pictures are bragging, yes, but there’s usually no malice involved, other than wanting to make some women jealous, and to be admired and lusted after by men. Most men would welcome getting a naked hot chick pic, and the women know it. It’s basically saying, “I…

To be fair, those weren’t “marvel at my magnificent cock, bitches” images. The ancient Egyptians’ creation myth involved masturbation and semen, and they had secret rituals that are speculated by scholars as being recreations of that myth. It’s quite possible the repeated imagery is religious in nature.

Something could be said as fo the negative gender role that demands a man be ambitious and successful or feel bad about himself. It’s not merely narcissism, but the idea that a man can only be satisfied and self-confident when he is the smartest, best person in the room. That if he can’t solely provide for his family…

I’m just going to say it. Monogamy sounds exhausting and terribly disappointing.

I will absolutely concede that men are SUPREMELY fucked up when it comes to their notions of what they deserve, and what women want, and will do, because of porno and media.

That shit warps people’s minds to an unreasonable degree.

“These alpha types might seek to avoid partners who compete with them intellectually, looking instead for someone to bolster their ego, rather than destroy it.”

I find men are attracted to my intelligence, independence, strength, opinions, confidence etc, but the problems happen as the relationship matures. My challenging their misinformed opinions causes fights, and then my desire to dumb down to save the relationship kicks in until I realise I cannot live like this and end…

re: Dowd: For me, the the problem is that she’s a plagairizing bigoted liar who uses NYT politics editorials to opine about how all Democratic women are men (and Democratic men are women) because she really wants Donald Trump to ask her out for milkshakes. Then she can brag to her friends that he’s totally going to…

I just mean not cheating or getting drunk and making out with randos in bars or at parties. I could have said “faithful” but it could as easily be misunderstood.

All of this feels so true. I’m 34 and really ready to get married. I like all kinds of men looks wise and don’t need someone rich; I just don’t want to have to support them. I’d also like someone my age or older ( but ideally not over 55).

Given the content of this article, I’m not going to couch my comment in disclaimers or a pseudo-humble preamble. I’ve lost count of the men who, in the midst of dumping me, have told me I’m the smartest person they know. My last pre-relationship (we’d gone out on 2 or 3 dates) fell apart after I told him how much I…

When I was married, I hated it. Granted, my ex was a real dud. 15 years older, and a baby who eventually lost his mind. For the past 15 or so years I've been in a relationsip with a great guy and the key is we don't live together.

I see a lot of men saying they want a woman who is “loyal” What is up with that word? Why is “loyal” so important? To me that world applies more to a dog than a woman. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I don’t get why men like to use that word when talking about women.

I’m not pretty (maybe cute, but not pretty), but I quickly learned I had to use my intelligence otherwise I would have gotten nowhere in the dating world. You can be pretty and dumb, but not ugly and dumb.

I need some intersectional feminists to come in here. Goddammit, I fell for clickbait. I only got through half of the article (I finished it, though) before the angry red haze came before my eyes.

Sigh. Remind me again of who is supposed to be the “weaker sex”; the one that wants an equal partner or the one that wants an inferior partner?

So...great literature by both men and women captures what men and women are actually like, warts and all? Noted.

Men put a much bigger premium on a “pleasing disposition” in a mate as compared to women—according to Forbes

There’s some serious question-begging in that UT-Texas study, especially since we don’t actually know how it reflects evolutionarily deep behavior (that’s just the usual “find behavior, come up with half-assed hypothesis to fit the curve with no way to falsify whether that’s actually what caused it” thing that’s…

One of the most interesting bits of Rosin’s End of Men was her cross cultural observation that those who achieved or surpassed financial and educational equality with men - and while we’re certainly nowhere near that across the spectrum, there are also enough cohorts where we are and it’s something that can be studied…