MatureDJ
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
article: The Discovery of What It Means to Be a Man
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"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
zekko
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Is it a coincidence that the following was written by a woman who was undergoing transgender procedures to become a man?
"Instead, a new man seems to be emerging: a stay-at-home dad, forced by a failing economy and shifting workplace demographics to discover that he is, in fact, happy with a different, more expansive social role. American men expect their wives to work, according to a recent Pew research study, and want to be engaged fathers.
The new American man is freer in his gender: free to carry a diaper bag, yes, but also free to get a fancy barbershop haircut or talk about his feelings. Buddy comedies outpace romantic comedies, and the on-screen "bromances," inevitably reach a point of almost homoerotic tenderness between fart jokes"
"Instead, a new man seems to be emerging: a stay-at-home dad, forced by a failing economy and shifting workplace demographics to discover that he is, in fact, happy with a different, more expansive social role. American men expect their wives to work, according to a recent Pew research study, and want to be engaged fathers.
The new American man is freer in his gender: free to carry a diaper bag, yes, but also free to get a fancy barbershop haircut or talk about his feelings. Buddy comedies outpace romantic comedies, and the on-screen "bromances," inevitably reach a point of almost homoerotic tenderness between fart jokes"
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We realize how screwed up things are when media needs women to talk about what it means to be a man.
While there is a countless number of magazines giving suggestions to women about how to manipulate men or reminding them what "is their right", an even remotely positive litterature about manliness or being a man would be labelled as sexist or unappropriate or even a "hate speech".
This fact alone says more than any possible bvllsh1t shared from a woman talking about masculinity, and the answer is no there are no such things as "stay at home dad" at least in a sane environment and society.
When it happens its because there are serious sistemic problems beginning from the law and culture/media.
I see myself much more at ease to hunt with my bare hands than changing diapers at home.
While there is a countless number of magazines giving suggestions to women about how to manipulate men or reminding them what "is their right", an even remotely positive litterature about manliness or being a man would be labelled as sexist or unappropriate or even a "hate speech".
This fact alone says more than any possible bvllsh1t shared from a woman talking about masculinity, and the answer is no there are no such things as "stay at home dad" at least in a sane environment and society.
When it happens its because there are serious sistemic problems beginning from the law and culture/media.
I see myself much more at ease to hunt with my bare hands than changing diapers at home.
scrouds
Master Don Juan
I really don't care what the atlantic things about "what it means to be a man"
These libby rags need to get bent
These libby rags need to get bent