Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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Harridans are considered by employers to be "challenging" to manage

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As the researchers wrote in Harvard Business Review, “One college leader described how some search committees chose not to hire women in their late forties because of ‘too much family responsibility and impending menopause.’ Other search committees declined to hire women in their 50s because they have ‘menopause-related issues and could be challenging to manage.’...Yet the jobs were given to similarly aged men.”
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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“As they do grow older and more mature in their careers, [women] lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that,” Diehl said. “Men will allow women into the workplace ... and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.”


I'm not surpised. It's the same thing in dating.
 

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... and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.”


I'm not surpised. It's the same thing in dating.
There's "pushing back"/dissenting with specific dimensions of what someone else has said

Vs


-Going out of one's way to be a grade A pain in someone else's ass, just because you aren't particularly fond that individual


Quite a few gals of all ages mistake the latter mode of operating for the former, and this isn't even a new phenomena... When Anne Of Green Gables first became a bestseller in The 1900s, legions of readers(most of them women)began imitating her behavior faster than 90s kids started chanting "F-ck The Police" after hearing NWA say those words

This has re-occurred several times over the proceeding decades, whenever AOGG gets a fresh TV miniseries
 
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