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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Dudes try "dating Darwinism"

An author argues that angry young men are becoming assholes to try to get women.

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  • Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:18 PM

    the thing about men being attractive when they are in relationships is absolutely true, nothing about the guy changes,, (well obviously something does) but we never get to have these conversations with women

    because women generally cannot admit that they are ruled by hormones and instinct in the same way that men are, only the hormones and instincts are different. Every strongly felt and widely shared reaction to men that lots of women have has to be defended as occupying some sort of moral high ground. Another example is the refusal of many if not most women to concede the voluminously documented fact that many if not most women are sexually repulsed by men significantly shorter than themselves. Repulsed by the shortness, period, the short guy always has to be complicit in the problem, somehow, according to most women.

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