& kindly shove it up your ass. I'm so sick & tired of this crap about what "not to do".

Interesting that you mentioned rich and powerful as conditions for having sex with you. Is this official "feminist" policy? And, it's men who are superficial.....

On my first date with a guy he told me that Ashlee Simpson had recently asked him for his number, and that her relationship with Pete Wentz was just a publicity stunt. I'm assuming he was going for the "if I'm good enough for Ashlee, I'm good enough for you" angle. I told him he was full of crap.

I would comment on this topic, but not until I recover from the Q-tip story. Thank you for totally squicking me out.

here are a few things I would avoid if I were a lady trying to impress a guy:

1. Don't complain all the time about how mean the other girls are at work.

2. Don't eat your date's fries while at the same time declaring you don't or can't eat fries.

3. Don't start a monologue on your cousin from Midland, Michigan or your favorite nail polish or that wonderful Cosmo article about 'How to Please a Man'.

4. Don't try to say the name of your perfume in French if you don't actually speak French. (The 'l' at the end of 'Chanel' does not sound like the 'l' at the end of 'channel'.)

5. When I say, 'your dress looks great on you!', do not interpret this as meaning that I keep looking at your cleavage or your butt.

6. If I do not keep looking at your cleavage or your butt, do not interpret this as lack of attraction to you, or as a symptom of homosexuality. I may simply be a gentleman.

7. If I ever mention sex at all, do not go on defensive mode. Just go on talking as if it were a possible conversation topic; or, if you'd rather not talk about it, change the topic, but please do it gracefully; 'men are all pigs!' or 'men think only about one thing!' is not a good way to achieve that.

Here's a rule: Don't espouse antisemtic politics during sex. I had a date with a 'woman' in LA once. We met through mutual friends (no longer friends). We ended up back at her apartment and in the middle of sex, she starts talking about how glad she was I wasn't a Jew (but I am). She actually said 'Hitler had it right.' Even as disgusting as that was, why, oh why, would someone even bring something like that up at that moment? Is getting screwed by a Nazi her fantasy? Let's just say the moment lost it's magic.

"Say, you really don't sweat that much for a fat chick!"

Judging by your article one may assume that you are equally charming company and an equally captivating conversationalist.

All the good ones are taken and regarded as pure gold by those who are lucky enough to find them. Of all genders and persuasions.

So, as usual, wimminz be makin' the RULES. Has it occured to you ladies that if you would take more responsibility for your dating life--rather than just sitting around waiting for men to impress you--you might not have to go through this tiresome and humiliating culling process.

and from the context, as criteria that men believe in rather than women. I think the effect men think 'rich and powerful' has on women -- at least the good ones -- has been a little exaggerated...

...do not natter on about the wondrous items you looked at on your first trip to a sex toy store, gazing at me without blinking, a faint trace of drool on your lips, wondering if I was getting turned on upon hearing a description of a 12 inch very realistic (veins and all)....this actually happened to me. I was so stunned. It wasn't a matter of 're-directing the conversation' to another topic. It was the fact that this clueless loser actually thought it would be an interesting topic of conversation and wanted to get my feedback. Ugh! Beyond disgusting, and beyond pathetic!

Comedy Gold!

if I want to see the photos you took at a topless beach in Europe and giggle and say you hid under bushes and used a big telephoto lens - like it was a funny story, or something.

Dude - you come off as a voyeur and an ugly american to boot.

Oh, and don't tell me how bit "it" is - if you have to pre-advertise, chances are it isn't.

1. When I tell you my best girlfriend loves to watch football, don't say, "Oh, she only does that to impress the guys, huh."

2. Don't tell me my friends are fat/bitchy/ugly. It makes you look horribly shallow and uninteresting.

3. If we start a conversation about something statistical and proven and that I happen to know a lot about, like, say, the gender wage gap, don't tell me I'm making terrible generalizations about things I know nothing about, and that we live in a post-feminist world, and then cite for me things about your workplace that you can't possibly know (like, oh, your bosses' salaries) to try and tell me the wage gap doesn't exist, or that it at least doesn't exist in your perfect, gender-free workplace.

4. Don't tell me you "thought this was fun, we should do this again" if you don't mean it. I can see through it. Honestly.

5. Don't forget to ask me questions about myself from time to time after I let you buy me a drink. My name, maybe, and what I do for a living. You're interesting, but really, I'm interesting, too.

6. Don't use any of the stuff that the Pick Up Artist taught you on me. I've read the book; I've watched the show; I've tried the tricks. If we start off that way and you "open me up", great, but if you keep trying it, I'm gonna' see through you.

7. Don't touch my ass -- especially don't pinch it -- before we've even been formally introduced. I don't care how tight my pants are.

8. If I call you over to me after you've pinched my ass, and I say, "Hey, don't ever do that again, okay?" and you agree, don't stand there waiting for me to accept you as a potential mate now. You ruined your chances with me. Learn your lesson and better luck next time.

9. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I think buying me dinner is offensive. You can at least offer. Don't assume I hate chivalry. There's still a wage gap, yo.

10. If I tell you my family has religious or political views other than my own, and they happen to be other than yours, as well, don't belittle my family for having different beliefs. Tell me how cool it is that I have a family that supports me even though we believe different things. Or tell me it's great that I can think for myself. Don't call my parents "stupid" or "brainwashed", please.