"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
53 year-old harridan is tired of "doing it myself"
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"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
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More and more women
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Are rediscovering what wasn't cancelable "offense" to utter out loud, in the not-too-distant past
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Dying_Changes_Everything Note the date that aired
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I think Nancy Pelosi is a great role-model for women that want it all - start her career with the intention of marrying a peer (or higher), then check out of the career while she has kids, and once the last one is 13, go back to the career, staying in that career for as long as she need to feel like she has had a "fulfilling" career. Too bad that American employers hate hiring older folks.More and more women
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Are rediscovering what wasn't cancelable "offense" to utter out loud, in the not-too-distant past
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Dying_Changes_Everything Note the date that aired
Note the date this was recorded
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And a piss-poor one for anyone who wants to be a genuinely honorable and effective civil servant
All levity aside: While it's too late for those women who are die-hard converts to Woke Thought, younger women today still have a shot at dropping all that nonsense into a dumpster, then enjoying first-rate lives
Something similar happened at the end of The 20th Century: Chicks who'd bought into Feminist hookum hook, line, and stinker ended up the sort of gals explored in the writings of dissidents within The Women's Movement
The Heidi Chronicles - Wikipedia
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Whereas those who refused to buy into everything they heard, or were too young to be heavily poisoned, fared pretty well
*"Underlying much of the tension of The Heidi Chronicles is how success differs for men and women. Though it is known from the prologue of the first act that Heidi has a successful career as an art historian, the play focuses more on her success as a feminist and autonomous person; unlike the male characters, career success for Heidi does not equal a fulfilled life
As Heidi’s generation demanded, she became an independent woman in a male-dominated world. Yet this success seems hollow to Heidi near the end of the play. She hoped that feminism would provide solidarity with her fellow women and offer significance in society, but her reality has proven this false. Her women friends have bought into superficial happiness and material success: Susan Johnston changes identities frequently, going from an idealistic law student to a feminist to a Hollywood power broker; she ultimately becomes disenchanted with the feminist cause and insensitive to her friend’s problems. Heidi also has little luck with men, sustaining no real lasting relationships and ultimately having her life choices shaped by them. Only in her decision to adopt a child does Heidi achieve an independent success"
Wasserstein's heroine back in The 80s had the exact same revelation that chick who wrote the aforementioned tweet
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Are experiencing today, in other words
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Attraction is not a here and now choice. Having a feeling of being attracted to something is a reaction and a reflection of who you are. Don't blame women for not being attracted to you or other men.
“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
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Her political positions aside, she has done a very good job of merging a career with being a mother.And a piss-poor one for anyone who wants to be a genuinely honorable and effective civil servant
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Read the portion of my post which begins with the words "All levity aside..." That's where the discussion really becomes invigoratingHer political positions aside, she has done a very good job of merging a career with being a mother.