"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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Classic love song "When A Man Loves A Woman" is actually a case study in SIMP behavior....

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A lot of popular songs of the last 4-5 decades have been beta. Phil Collins songs have very strong beta themes.
I agree.

I heard 1954's 'Sincerely' by The Moonglows tonight.
If one substitutes she for he in the lyrics that would make more sense, otherwise...a beta song.

Man, I loved that song as a teenager. (I still like 50's music)

Should be a song sung by a woman to a man instead, I understand that now.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Popular songs are always for women. Get the women to follow you and men will show up because women are there. It's a business. Romance, and sex sell.
 

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As a teenager, I grew up with a group called "The Knack." They were the perfect blend of power-pop and songs about lust. Their song "My Sharona" is still played on the 'oldies' stations. Their entire LP was about scoring with girls and not the typical "boy meets girl/boy loses girl."

Even back in the late 70's, this group received a lot of heat about their debut LP lyrical content (citing the group as misogynist and sexist) .
Their response?

They didn't cave in. Instead, they released their 2nd LP and titled it "But the little girls understand."

With today's attitudes, a band with commercial aspirations wouldn't think of producing such an album. And if they did, they'd apologize and donate their proceeds to the "National Organization for Women.
 
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