You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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lmao….did we ever look back at the repercussions when that idiot Obama made that 2015 lgbtq marriage laws legal? It set up a Pandora’s box of cultural perversions to Woke, pride parades being normal, third wave feminism, rise in lesbianism amongst women and creeps pushing pedophilia laws to be normalized. So it’s these types of things or slight perversions we as a people got to speak out against and let our voices be heard.
Typically they have a background in gymnastics. I went to college with a guy who was a cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Bucs. Whatever smart comment anyone had about him being a cheerleader they would keep to themselves, because he was also a competitive bodybuilder. When the team scored a touchdown, he would run across the end zone with a giant flag. He was the only one strong enough to carry it.
Actually, what we today call Wokeness dates back the later 20th Century
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.
I think most, even counting only cishet men, fans would welcome an all-men cheerleader squad if it meant their team wins the Super Bowl.
What about the cheerleader that shoot the cannon?
This was right before they built the new stadium with the pirate ship. The Big Sombrero had 74,000 seats, about 70,000 of which were usually empty during games.
This was also a team that had a winking pirate on its helmets.
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.
"Buccaneers" is a term used mostly for the pirates of the Caribbean in the 1600s. And yeah, they were pretty gay.
Spoken by a man living in the city with the original NFL cheerleaders.
I think the pirate was winking because he didn't want his eye gouged out and look like Moshe Dayan, which the logo for a certain other NFL resembles:
I don't mind male cheerleaders as part of a regular cheerleading squad where the men throw the chicks up or have them stand on their hands (these guys have to be very strong to do that). I just mind the non-canonical cheerleaders in the "dance squads" having sausages.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.