Even though it doesn’t really have much effect on or for me, I’m glad lately that there has been some pushback on the idea that women get to have many almost-inconceivably high standards in dating and love, while men should just settle for anything.

To be clear, I think that both men and women have tended to believe that men should just deal with whatever — because men have felt they can’t demand better, and because it benefits many women if men internalize that they have no choice but to be saddled with a jobless, talentless 300 pound clown show. (Intuitive living, I guess.)

I developed high standards due to several terrible girlfriends and now have an amazing one. So it does work. But it means awful women get pissed at you.

So be it. Loser anger is fuel for excellence.