Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
1 in 5 men that go to prison end up getting ass raped. While there's all kinds of organizations and education about rape against women, men that get raped in prison have no protections. The guards don't give a sh*t and turn their heads and look the other way.theunflushables said:I've heard points 2-4 before. Never heard point 1.
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.
140,000 men (in jail only, though) vs. 354,670 women (1995 data, bureau of justice statistics)horaholic said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape
These statistics are only in the US, though. Havent looked into other countries.
I did not know that, before. BUT, its not women committing the rapes, unfortunately, (unless you live in Russia.Whats up with that?!?)
Keep in mind, male rape in prison is way underreported due to the humiliation factor of getting f*cked by another man. Not only that, but threats on the person's life if he rats someone out to the officers.Akuma said:140,000 men (in jail only, though) vs. 354,670 women (1995 data, bureau of justice statistics)
Women still win. Not that it's a good thing.
Actually...speakeasy said:1 in 5 men that go to prison end up getting ass raped. While there's all kinds of organizations and education about rape against women, men that get raped in prison have no protections. The guards don't give a sh*t and turn their heads and look the other way.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/25/guards-are-the-worst.htmlprisoners report more rape committed by guards than by other prisoners
There has NEVER been a year in the U.S. where 354,670 women were raped!Akuma said:140,000 men (in jail only, though) vs. 354,670 women (1995 data, bureau of justice statistics)
Women still win. Not that it's a good thing.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
That's weird. The US Department of Justice reports 272,350 rapes/sexual assaults in 2006, whereas the FBI reports only reports 92,757 for the same year.Luthor Rex said:There has NEVER been a year in the U.S. where 354,670 women were raped!
Here are the FBI's own numbers:
Across the nation from 1988 until 2007 the worst year for all rapes was 1992 with 109,062 forcible rapes (both genders).
In the year 2007, forcible rapes was down to 90,427. I believe elsewhere on the FBI's website you'll find that they believe that rape is under reported by about 37%. If we adjust the numbers for, let's say an even 40%, in 1992 that would mean the actual total is 152,686 and in 2007 126,597.
I'm looking at the tables on page 3. I see what you mean.Akuma said:That's weird. The US Department of Justice reports 272,350 rapes/sexual assaults in 2006, whereas the FBI reports only reports 92,757 for the same year.
Source here. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cv06.pdf
Nice to see American law enforcement can't get it's act together.The UCR (Uniform Crime Reports) reports on crimes that are reported to, and then reported by, the police. The NCVS reports on what is said by people surveyed through the National Crime Victimization Survey; it includes crimes that aren't reported to the police, and aspects of crimes that aren't reported to or by the police.
Each has possible flaws: The UCR doesn't cover unreported crimes, and in some ways reflects police classification decisions more than anything else. The NCVS is more prone to error as a result of respondent mistakes or falsifications, since no-one investigates the respondents' claims.