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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
article: The Discovery of What It Means to Be a Man
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"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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