LondonTowers
Don Juan
Now tell me that masculinity isn't under a coordinated attack...
http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-Male-Supremacy/228769
http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-Male-Supremacy/228769
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.
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.
http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1410/46/1410463727619.jpgBy Melvin Konner
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.
The new deal was before world war 2 dumbass, and gave the working class some level of dignity and position for maybe the first time in our countrys history, as well as making huge steps against financial fraud and abuse that caused the depression. GI Bill also an enormously successful program.Poonani Maker said:Of course, a PROFESSOR. Professors wanna rule the world. The WWII Generation (The WEAKEST Generation, not the "greatest") came home from war, took the G.I. Bill, went to college, obeyed all professors with their silly little Ideas, implemented them (The New Deal, etc etc), and now we have what we have now today
You missed the point, I could've said LBJ's "Great Society." Common Sense is not so common. You obviously have none of it.jurry said:The new deal was before world war 2 dumbass, and gave the working class some level of dignity and position for maybe the first time in our countrys history, as well as making huge steps against financial fraud and abuse that caused the depression. GI Bill also an enormously successful program.
Might want to learn a bit before spouting off that "education is nothing" line.
Of course, a PROFESSOR. Professors wanna rule the world. The WWII Generation (The WEAKEST Generation, not the "greatest") came home from war, took the G.I. Bill, went to college, obeyed all professors with their silly little Ideas, implemented them (The New Deal, etc etc), and now we have what we have now today.
Professors are what ruined this country, and are destroying the world. They are in Dresses (Robes), just like the Priests from Egypt, The Middle East, Aztecs, Catholics, Bishops, Judges, all wearin silly little Dresses. They want an anthill society of complete stagnation so they can continue to get their paychecks.
No! Western Man wore pants! and shirts starting out at Mount Ararat (or the Black Sea) and westwardly Moving and exploring, conquering, building to where we are today. They want us to forget our history. They would NEVER (re-)publish authors from pre-1960s that don't fall in line with their political correct "History." They want to wipe out our memories of our history/ancestry. They control ALL of our universities, educational systems. You don't get your PhD unless you write what the academic journal "Guilds" want you to write. So you aren't THINKING really, just writing what they want you to write, so you can get published, so you can get TENURE (impossible to fired/get bennies for life). Tenure, in a good university, is VERY hard to get and PhDs are a dime a dozen, something like 60,000 a year. Education means NOTHING. Many things your parents told you were EVERYTHING are NOTHING.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
An insect is smarter than a college professor. The difference between the EverReady Man and an insect is that if an EverReady Man hits a chair leg, it just keeps going and going and going…PeasantPlayer said:I agree with this, so sad to see people trying to hold their status quo in different sectors of education, science and politics