"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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EyeBRollin

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I recently downloaded Disney Plus to get caught up on Marvel (last movie I watched was Avengers: Endgame). So far I got through Falcon & Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and binged watched Star Wars The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett.

Thoughts:
Female characters are significantly more powerful than the male characters. This was no surprise, as Disney has been pandering to women for quite some time. Every female character on screen is just stronger or gets better powers than the men. It’s comical at this point.

The male characters, though significantly weaker, go through better character arcs and offer multiple inspiring feats of courage and bravery. I can’t tell if this is intentional, as they make a point to show male characters being flawed and weaker from the start. The female characters have no such arc. For the men it is actually getting hard to tell if any of the male characters are villains, as they all start off with such flaws and make growth.

The dynamic is clearly-
Female = hero
Male = flawed hero or anti-hero

Thoughts?
 

"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.

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zekko

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The male characters, though significantly weaker, go through better character arcs and offer multiple inspiring feats of courage and bravery. I can’t tell if this is intentional, as they make a point to show male characters being flawed and weaker from the start. The female characters have no such arc.
This is intentional, and it's why they've started to call the MCU the M-She-U. However, this way of pushing feminism has a way of backfiring. As you have noticed, since the female characters are perfect and strong to begin with, it's difficult to write an interesting story about them, because they have no character arc. The lesser males have to learn their lessons and earn their position as heroes.

I haven't seen WandaVision yet, but I gather that Wanda has or will have a character arc - if not already then in the upcoming Dr. Strange movie.

Disney Plus also now has the Marvel Netflix series, if you haven't seen them.
 

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Are you just now noticing that hollywood is pushing an agenda...???...

All the hollywood bigwigs, the corporate CEOs, banking elites, "news" outlet CEOs, etc all attend the same social gatherings, events and galas....

...they all rub elbows with each other... To not realize that there is a concerted effort to push an agenda is naive.....
 
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