"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Landmark Supreme Court decision that results in a victory for men

"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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Very good day. I have been a victim of affirmative action policies in both academia and in job searches. I am pleased with these although it is a painful reminder of what I endured as a White male in academia in the 2000s.

@CornbreadFed is correct that White women did benefit from affirmative action. Someone like Alissa Heinerscheid got into Harvard and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School MBA program based on being a diversity candidate. She also received preferential treatment in hiring too. A lifetime of affirmative action led her to be in a position to be unqualified to be the lead marketer of a major beer brand. Her decision on Bud Light also impacted Budweiser and other Anheuser Busch brands.
 

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Very good day. I have been a victim of affirmative action policies in both academia and in job searches. I am pleased with these although it is a painful reminder of what I endured as a White male in academia in the 2000s.

@CornbreadFed is correct that White women did benefit from affirmative action. Someone like Alissa Heinerscheid got into Harvard and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School MBA program based on being a diversity candidate. She also received preferential treatment in hiring too. A lifetime of affirmative action led her to be in a position to be unqualified to be the lead marketer of a major beer brand. Her decision on Bud Light also impacted Budweiser and other Anheuser Busch brands.
Indeed. The critique is that every civil rights era achievement was peverted by ws to benefit white women and disabled whites, and if used on visibile minorities, then other non-black visible minorities who often immigrants from countries that have a strong anti-black sentiment that they bring to the US to prop up the ws there, or racoon-blacks who cater to ws beliefs while holding themselves out to be the exception. In this light, everything, including affirmitive action, is corrupted. The new movement these days is reparations because legislative reform to make things nice and fair are a waste of time and cold hard cash is the solution for everything.
 

"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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The real victory would be to set a minimum score to join an organization and whoever reaches that score can moves to the following part while none of those who failed can...all of this regardless the race, gender, religion and so on.

This makes perfect sense but somehow someone find it a discrimination to someone.

Regarding the private businesses, they should be allowed to hire and promote whoever they want even their own dogs if they believe it will benefit the company.

Whoever needs a law to reach a high position it's because he/she doesnt deserve it.

And please let's get rid of that circus of differential tests for men and women in the army as if the talibans would shot their bullets slower to give women the time to run that quarter mile in 2 minutes more.
 

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The real victory would be to set a minimum score to join an organization and whoever reaches that score can moves to the following part while none of those who failed can...all of this regardless the race, gender, religion and so on.

This makes perfect sense but somehow someone find it a discrimination to someone.
Of course it's going to be "discrimination" towards women when men hold the vast majority of very-high level IQ's.
 

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As far as education is concerned, nowadays I think that White males might actually be the recipient of AA largess. Think about it - chicks are now about 3/5 of college students, and Asian & Ashkenazis are more academically gifted on average than Whites.
 

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Very good day. I have been a victim of affirmative action policies in both academia and in job searches. I am pleased with these although it is a painful reminder of what I endured as a White male in academia in the 2000s.

@CornbreadFed is correct that White women did benefit from affirmative action. Someone like Alissa Heinerscheid got into Harvard and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School MBA program based on being a diversity candidate. She also received preferential treatment in hiring too. A lifetime of affirmative action led her to be in a position to be unqualified to be the lead marketer of a major beer brand. Her decision on Bud Light also impacted Budweiser and other Anheuser Busch brands.
She probably had stellar grades, so I don't think that she was the recipient of AA largess, at least for her MBA. As for unqualification to sell beer, this is more of eggheaded elites thinking they know what makes their customers tick. A good choice for a marketing position for a chick would be a Stacy-tier sorority leader since she would know how to get folks to go along with stuff.
 

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As far as education is concerned, nowadays I think that White males might actually be the recipient of AA largess. Think about it - chicks are now about 3/5 of college students, and Asian & Ashkenazis are more academically gifted on average than Whites.
It depends on the entrance exams/criteria the colleges use. If creative thinking or individuality is heavily weighed, Whites will do better than Asians on the whole.
 
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"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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A good choice for a marketing position for a chick would be a Stacy-tier sorority leader since she would know how to get folks to go along with stuff.
A lot of women go into marketing roles. It's also worth mentioning that marketing is broad and can cover many different types of roles.

A better than average looking, ex-sorority chapter leader might work in marketing. However, more of those women would be likely to work some sales representative job instead. Both pharmaceutical sales and medical device sales prefer to employ attractive women. New representatives were often in sororities in college and/or were college cheerleaders.

Women in "brand management" type marketing roles tend to be more careerist and less attractive. A lot of the "brand management" roles go to people with MBAs from elite school. Attractive women don't need to go through the effort of getting an MBA, either from an elite school or a non-elite school. Within marketing, the more attractive women likely work in creative roles, often times at advertising agencies, which are roles that typically go to those with bachelor's degrees from non-elite universities.

As for unqualification to sell beer, this is more of eggheaded elites thinking they know what makes their customers tick.
A lot of bigger name companies prefer to hire new MBAs from elite universities. This is a common practice across business functional areas, including Marketing. That's a hiring practice that is somewhat controversial, especially from the viewpoint of MBA graduates from non-elite schools. As a result, the value proposition in attending a school not ranked among the Top 25 MBA programs is questionable.

Alissa Heinerscheid did her MBA level internship at General Mills, a big name company with packaged food brands. After her graduation from U of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, she worked a "brand management" role at Johnson & Johnson.


Prior to the InBev merger, it is likely that the marketing talent hired at Anheuser-Busch was less likely to be graduates of elitist universities. In those days, they were more likely to hire non-elitist MBAs or people with bachelor's degree from non-elitist universities.

Someone with an MBA from an elitist university is no more likely to be a good "brand management" marketer than someone with an MBA from a non-Top 25 program or even someone with a bachelor's degree.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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I hope this reduces college enrollments. The USA has had too many college graduates for a while. We need fewer college graduates and more meaningful work for those with high school diplomas and trade certifications.

As of 2021, more women (46%) than men (36%) completed college (ages 25-34). I wonder if the recent Supreme Court decision will reverse that trend.

In 2021, 25-34 year olds were born between 1987-1996, so this covers the latter 2/3rds of the Millennial generation.

Too many Millennials went to college.

Men were more likely to major in something useful in college, such as the STEM disciplines.

A lot of STEM graduates have been incels or borderline incels.
 

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I hope this reduces college enrollments. The USA has had too many college graduates for a while. We need fewer college graduates and more meaningful work for those with high school diplomas and trade certifications.
I hope it does influence more people in to these fields because I want the trades to make less money and suffer from over supply and less demand hehe
 

"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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