"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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article: The New Domesticity

MatureDJ

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini.../18/gIQAqkg1vN_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

It seems to me that there is a big swing in attitudes of women back to the traditional, as they see the problems with their "liberation". First it was the barren upper 30-somethings bemoaning their decision to not have been more focused on finding a husband when they were younger with higher sexual market value, now this - women realizing that a lifestyle of hearth and home is preferable to the cubicle rat race.

I welcome this trend. :yes:
 

"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.

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Well this is not shocking....the world is getting harder and colder, jobs are getting scarcer..naturally women want to be huddled inside by the fire while their man is out fighting in the real world.

BUT ARE THEY WILLING TO GIVE UP THEIR FEMINIST 'RIGHTS' TO DO SO.

BECAUSE IF THEY ARE NOT, THEY CANNOT BE PROVIDED THE DOMESTIC COMFORTS OF OLD.

I wonder if men are savvy enough to understand this..I don't think so.

You can't have it both ways ladies, you want the safety of the home..then the man who provides that home must be treated like a king... I don't see THAT in the article. I see talk of 'empowerment through canning!'...get the fvck outta here....
 

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Burroughs said:
Well this is not shocking....the world is getting harder and colder, jobs are getting scarcer..naturally women want to be huddled inside by the fire while their man is out fighting in the real world.

BUT ARE THEY WILLING TO GIVE UP THEIR FEMINIST 'RIGHTS' TO DO SO.

BECAUSE IF THEY ARE NOT, THEY CANNOT BE PROVIDED THE DOMESTIC COMFORTS OF OLD.

I wonder if men are savvy enough to understand this..I don't think so.

You can't have it both ways ladies, you want the safety of the home..then the man who provides that home must be treated like a king... I don't see THAT in the article. I see talk of 'empowerment through canning!'...get the fvck outta here....
Meh. From the article it's just showing that the hipster trends are going mainstream, that's all. All it needs to say how these 30 something women are drinking pbr, wearing flannel shirts and opening esty stores. This is trendy, not a real return to domestic traditional gender roles.
 
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