Really—don’t. Don’t do this with men or women, but especially not with women. For some reason—perhaps because we smile and are nice—men often feel they can give us opinions and advice we didn’t ask for.
We now know that any other conversation we try to make is just something you’re patiently sitting through until you get to sleep with us. We really can’t just have a normal conversation once you’ve hit on us. We know you’re just thinking, “Alright, enough of that—is this going down or not?”
In the same breathe as the retirement talk, they’ll also talk about their role models. Now, these aren’t famous athletes or politicians. These are men who turned a bathroom into a walk-in beer refrigerator—or something like that.
Then there are the men who will allude to the fact that there are other women in the picture—other women who do have sex with them—so if this woman wants to stay in the picture, she better catch up. But that’s okay—she’s cool, bruh. You can go to those other women. Surely they exist…
Try to remember that when a man is just showering you with attention, you aren’t actually getting to know him. You know he can flatter you, sure, but you don’t really know anything else about his personality.
This one’s pretty slimy and terrible, too—the guy who pretends he’s going to make a useful professional introduction for you. Then that person “can’t make it” and it’s just the two of you at dinner—or worse, this guy’s home
It's hardly as bad as you think.