{"id":264308,"date":"2010-02-02T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/?p=52821"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:00:36","slug":"bad-advice-women-get-date-like-a-d-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264308","title":{"rendered":"Bad Advice Women Get: Date Like a D-Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"I can\u2019t speak for every school, of course, but at Columbia, it\u2019s hard out there for a single girl. According to statistics I made up just now, approximately half the guys at this place are gay, thirty percent of them are in long-term relationships, and the remaining twenty are generally kinda weird<\/a>. (Many in a cute way, but some in a\u2026 not so cute way.) The fact that there\u2019s an all-girls\u2019 college right across the street<\/a> doesn\u2019t help matters.<\/p>\n

With all that in mind, I\u2019m certainly open to hearing tips on how to successfully snag a dude. So when I saw an article on marieclaire.com<\/a> called \u201cHow to Date Like a Man,\u201d<\/a> I was intrigued.<\/p>\n

The piece starts out pretty innocuously: \u201cWhen you walk into a place, act like you know where the hell you\u2019re going, even if you don\u2019t. Everyone will wonder who you are and why you\u2019re there, but they\u2019ll never think you\u2019re useless and confused,\u201d writes Erin Dailey in her first paragraph. Okay, so far, so sensible. Looking confident and carefree is definitely more attractive than looking frightened and meek. It\u2019s a little irksome that Dailey genders confidence as a masculine trait, but whatevs, I won\u2019t fight it.<\/p>\n

After that, though, things start to get a little iffy. Dailey tells women that once they\u2019ve found a hottie, they should \u201clook him straight in the eye and think, You should be attached to my lips by now; why aren\u2019t you?<\/em> Trust me, he\u2019ll read your thoughts like they\u2019re projected above your head on a wide-screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hm\u2026 I don\u2019t know about this one. It seems like if you\u2019re giving a guy a crazy, unblinking stare, he\u2019s most likely going to think, What\u2019s up with Captain Bug Eyes?<\/em> and back away slowly. That sample thought\u2014\u201cYou should be attached to my lips by now<\/em>\u201d\u2014and the title of this section of the article, \u201cEye Your Prey,\u201d also give this piece of advice a seriously creepy vibe. Dailey sounds like she\u2019s decided to make Samantha Jones her personal man-handling guru, which makes her suggestions seriously suspect.<\/p>\n

And things just go downhill from here. Dailey\u2019s next bit of wisdom is to \u201cfake interest\u201d in whatever the dude is talking about, since \u201cno one cares about what anyone else has to say. They just don\u2019t.\u201d Ouch, man. Why bother chatting up a guy if you have to feign enthusiasm for whatever he\u2019s talking about? How could you form a relationship with someone you find totally boring? This just sounds mean.<\/p>\n

Finally, Dailey tells us what to do after we have sex with the dude (because you should have sex with him immediately, since \u201cthat\u2019s pretty much all they want from you until they get to know you.\u201d And presumably letting him get to know you is like, too time-consuming or something?): \u201cNever exchange all your information. This is so incredibly important. Give him your name. Give him a fake cell number. In this age of the Internet, anyone can find you if they want to.\u201d<\/p>\n

See, if you do<\/em> give him your real cell number, \u201che will call you.\u201d But\u2026 isn\u2019t that the point? How are the two of you going to go out on another date if he can\u2019t get in touch with you? I\u2019m not the only one who thinks this sounds totally bizarre, right?<\/p>\n

Maybe this article is actually supposed to be brilliant satire, and I\u2019m too dense to recognize it. Maybe the title is just a little misleading; if it were changed to \u201cHow to Date Like a Douchebag,\u201d or maybe \u201cHow to Score a One-Night Stand,\u201d these tips would make a lot more sense. As advice for the date-seeking woman, though, Dailey\u2019s piece falls flat. It\u2019s also kind of offensive to guys, since in her eyes, \u201cdating like a dude\u201d means acting like a total a**hole. Thanks but no thanks, Marie Claire<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t speak for every school, of course, but at Columbia, it\u2019s hard out there for a single girl. According to statistics I made up just now, approximately half the guys at this place are gay, thirty percent of them are in long-term relationships, and the remaining twenty are generally kinda weird. (Many in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}