I have no idea if this book is any good (though I do like Bulkin), but the title is frickin’ fantastic.

Wow. All of the sudden, I like Green Day.

That is very much like something I’d do. I have very low tolerance for men harassing women and if I see it in person, I step up.

Fuck yeah Billie Joe. Who knew he was the real deal? Well, now I know.

About the below, the endpoint of all that — as in, what will actually happen in the real world — is that women will only end up interacting with the worst men, as that sort of social sanction doesn’t have any impact on them.

Meanwhile, men with good intentions will follow social conventions and not interact at all.

Strange how many human “solutions” have exactly the opposite of the intended effect.

In some ways — in many important ways — Americans are more repressed sexually and socially than those in traditional Islamic societies.

There, at least there are socially accepted ways to proceed. There is a script that works — yes, for women, it works very poorly indeed but there is a path.

In America, however, there is nothing — it’s just a confusion. If you’re a man and you talk to a woman at work in any way other than robotically, you’re an evil harassing creep, while actual harassing creeps pretty much get away with nearly anything. Meanwhile, women are forced out of companies for reporting the actual harassers, while the men who just wanted a friendship often face the consequences the worst of their brethren in their sociopathic nature completely avoid.

There are many other examples, but that was one I was thinking about.

When the conventional wisdom is that expressing anything other than robotic indifference to a woman is harassment (as it is becoming), then we are all doomed. The harassers will still proceed with abandon and many more people will be more lonely than necessary.

All too often, our “fixes” just make things worse.

I’m not into sentimental photos in general, but if someone did this to me I’d never speak to them again. Even if I were married to them. They’d find the divorce papers in the mail.

This might be the most monstrous thing I've read on r/relationships and that is saying A LOT pic.twitter.com/V7gUZU0d2I

— bras in the dryer (@ajlobster) October 27, 2017

That’s just absolutely horrible and unconscionable, and a sign of mental problems. I have difficulty understanding jealousy at all, but that’s so far beyond jealousy it truly is some form of mental illness.