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I’ve touched on this before, but recent observations prove an entire post is in order. We of the TGIF generation – line-up: Family Matters, Full House, Step by Step years – approach relationships like BC QB Chris Crane on a 30 yard touch-down pass. We run around like we’re about to make something happen then blow it by 2 feet, 30-seconds too late (that’s for …
Why I’m Leaving Guyland “What used to be regressive weekends are now whole years in the lives of some guys,” Kimmel tells NEWSWEEK. In almost 400 interviews with mainly white, college-educated twentysomethings, he found that the lockstep march to manhood is often interrupted by a debauched and decadelong odyssey, in which youths buddy together in search of new ways to feel like men. Actually, it’s …
It’s hard to wrap your brain around how not in college you are until you pay a visit to your alma mater and hang out with your sisters who now both go there, for example. Me: So do you think everyone thinks I’m a student? Sara: No, you look old. Every moment is a reminder of the fact that your chapter ended 3 + years …
Great news. No sarcasm. Guys have a genetic disposition toward cheating. According to a study recently published in the Proceedings Of the National Academy of Sciences (a very official sounding document), “Men are more likely to be devoted and loyal husbands when they lack a particular variant of a gene that influences brain activity.” I know. Wow. The gene variant – which has a weird …
Today marks the 100th post. This is, I’ve determined, the first time I’ve created 100 of anything. Yes it’s true that one “creates” an outfit, but I stopped taking polaroids of them around #89. Considering the occasion I figure it’s fitting to explain how this whole thing got started – how and why it seemed like a good idea to put the conversations inside my …
It’s no mystery that girls think about marriage more – and earlier – than guys. My first job out of college was working for the online weddings resource, TheKnot.com. Our most prized stat was the fact that upon first discovering the site, women spent an average of 3 hours there — only 1/3 of them were actually engaged. One would venture to guess that less …
For the past 20 years (I wasn’t interested in boys until kindergarten) I have been blaming my inability to meet the right guys on a whole host of issues. They are all dumb, I am sometimes confusing — they can’t get their acts together, I am sometimes intimidating — they don’t know what they want, I flirt weird. Right. So maybe just two issues, but …
Last night a Swedish man taught me a lesson. No. Ew. Not that kind of lesson. I was out with friends for a drink or four at The Spotted Pig. It was, like always, a weird mix of people sporting hard-to-place accents and clothes that look vintage but are not. I had just been to the impossible-to-get-used-to co-ed bathroom (Ally McBeal-style, not single stall) where …
As promised, Cliff’s Notes/Barrons for the longer posts. Below: Why Girls Go for Assholes. -They don’t know they’re assholes-They’ll take any kind of attention they can get-They like a challenge-They think they can fix them Four theories. Three dislaimers. Lots of assumptions that make girls look not-so-great. But, in fairness, the basis of the post is that a lot of guys are assholes. Enjoy!
By very popular demand – an expose on the age-old question of why girls go for assholes. A fact everyone acknowledges but no one understands — sort of the like the solar system. The below attempts to explain why girls respond to assholes in social settings. It does not address why girls stay in relationships with assholes that treat them terribly. That’s for Oprah to …