"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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Gender Struggle Escalation

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You have too many guys here.... no, let me rephrase that. The mistake, that I see with the site now, is that there are basically too many posts telling guys they aren't the problem, that they are fine, when in reality they aren't. You aren't an attractive person (not just looks). What exactly do you bring to the table that would make a woman see you as a viable candidate? Why are you looking for a woman, a very attractive woman to date you and bring nothing to the table whatsoever?

Quite a few arguments here favor a mens perspective, and sometimes not justifiably so. On one hand, we can scorn a women for dating multiple guys, but can just as easily justify banging a married chick. I see a lot wrong with adapting this mindset; faulting ONLY women for the vicissitudes of dating woes is a horribly flawed perspective. The truth is that men must contribute towards the well being of their dating lives. Said another way, we onus must be on us to provide a quality product just as much as it aught to for a women.

I agree with the question of this post: everyone should ask themselves what they can bring to the table in a good relationship. You had made a post not so long about about 10 qualities one believes they have. This was a worthwhile exercise for people to participate in.

And I agree that war between the sexes is not the answer.

agreed. Sometimes it sure feels like it, but a 'war' is not the right approach. In this case, i'd opt to set a good example rather than stoop to other peoples levels and continue to blame the world for all the injustices.
 

"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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This post way far ahead of it's time amazing the dialouge our OG's had they saw this coming long ago!
The themes that we discuss on SS are not new. Most of the social ills that plague society today were already prevalent, though to a lesser extent, when I was growing up in the 90's.

In fact, I think the 90's were a major inflection point, especially in the West. It was the end of the post-WWII "golden age" and the beginning of a weirder, more psychotic period in human history.
 

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The themes that we discuss on SS are not new. Most of the social ills that plague society today were already prevalent, though to a lesser extent, when I was growing up in the 90's
There was a time in the not.remotely distant past https://www.reddit.com/r/menwritingwomen/comments/rfdd9t where a mindset that essentially went:

"We can curb prejudice and bias towards men dramatically, via courage and guile. That we'll never rid society of misandry entirely doesn't absolve us from doing everything in our power to REDUCE it"

Was the one most fellas abided by... It's no coincidence that, when we did so, what would eventually be dubbed Wokeness didn't exert the stranglehold on our culture that it has for the last decade or so

For reasons I won't even pretend to understand, somewhere around '15, men in America adopted the same self-defeating mindset("The System screwed us over, therefore we SHOULD NOT have to do the bare minimum to help ourselves")that so many women, non-whites, and gays have held since The late 1960s. And now, we're doing just as sh-t-illy as so many of them are!!!
 

"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.

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Putting the blame on video games and Incels being Incels. I guess some things never change.
 
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