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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.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 06:55 PM

    @ panders

    I think the problem is too many people still go starry-eyed to the dating game, expecting expectations (ha!) to be universally shared and full of Rules book instructions. Your approach is quite commendable--in my experience, if you do this (keeping a good level of mutual respect, i.e. not simply 'hey I want to fuck, wanna come with me?'), and if you treat people as individuals, most of the problems end up disappearing. But -- blame society, culture, gender stereotypes, whatever -- it seems most people don't do that. Hence the tragedy, and the need to find scapegoats.

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