"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

Read more...

Year 2000: Tech Guys Were Inept at Dating & Silicon Valley Was a Sausage Fest

SW15

Master Don Juan
Joined
May 31, 2020
Messages
15,422
Reaction score
12,521
Digging for Gold (forbes.com)

Mark Cuban didn't find an LTR until he was nearly 40 years old and I don't think a lot of it was by choice. Cuban is 64 now. He was able to meet a woman at the gym was he was 39 and she was 25. Billions of dollars can make you a better cold approacher at the gym. Also, there were fewer earbuds at the gym in 1997.

Back in 2000, a few big time tech executive males ended up dipping their pens in the company ink and marrying women in their company's PR/Marketing departments.

The wild thing is that these guys were borderline incel as Boomers and early Gen X'ers, who had better social skills than Millennials who followed them.
 
Last edited:

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

Read more...

Zimbabwe

Banned
Joined
Aug 29, 2021
Messages
2,350
Reaction score
3,079
Age
30
What do you mean "was", it still is a sausage fest. A lot of places are sausage fests with insane ratios of men to women like 5:1.

The weird thing is you will never find a place where women significantly outnumber men.
 

SW15

Master Don Juan
Joined
May 31, 2020
Messages
15,422
Reaction score
12,521
In the year 2000, Silicon Valley was a sausage fest. In 2022, it is still a sausage fest. That's a correct assessment.
 

BillyPilgrim

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 9, 2021
Messages
6,136
Reaction score
4,963
Who's doing the golddigging though? The women or the nerds with their noses?


it's over for Hygienediggers
 

MatureDJ

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 30, 2006
Messages
12,738
Reaction score
5,156
Digging for Gold (forbes.com)

Mark Cuban didn't find an LTR until he was nearly 40 years old and I don't think a lot of it was by choice. Cuban is 64 now. He was able to meet a woman at the gym was he was 39 and she was 25. Billions of dollars can make you a better cold approacher at the gym. Also, there were fewer earbuds at the gym in 1997.

Back in 2000, a few big time tech executive males ended up dipping their pens in the company ink and marrying women in their company's PR/Marketing departments.

The wild thing is that these guys were borderline incel as Boomers and early Gen X'ers, who had better social skills than Millennials who followed them.
In high school Cuban couldn't get a date to the prom--he had to be set up by a family friend.
It's OVER for PreBillionaireCels.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

Read more...

MatureDJ

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 30, 2006
Messages
12,738
Reaction score
5,156
What do you mean "was", it still is a sausage fest. A lot of places are sausage fests with insane ratios of men to women like 5:1.

The weird thing is you will never find a place where women significantly outnumber men.
You'll find them in some places ...

TEMP.jpg
 
Top