Creep Week: How To Reform A Creeper

"Look, she seemed lost! All I was trying to do was offer a ride in my windowless van in the dead of night..."

Normally I save letters from my readers for Ask Dr. NerdLove on Wednesdays, but occasionally I’ll get one that merits a full-blown article. Then every once in a while, I’ll get one that merits more than just one article. In this case, it’s a return to the ever-popular subject of how to handle creepers. A reader [...]

Understanding Men

Manly tears at the end of The Iron Giant are a recent addition to the list.

There are few cliches that I hate more than the “Men are From Mars/Women Are From Venus” line. It’s an insult to both genders, turning 50% of the human race into an exotic “other”, telling everybody that one side is so disparate and estranged from their counterpart that we may as well be entirely different species altogether. [...]

Gaming While Female

Bring it.

If you’re a regular reader of my column, you’ll have noticed that interspersed amongst the dating tips, I take the occasional moment to deal with issues that arrise in the geek community… after all, if you’re going to be knee-deep in nerd, it’s good to take a look around and assess how things stand. Unfortunately, [...]

Take It Like A Man

"Your heartfelt pleading has made me realize just how attracted I am to you," said nobody, ever.

If you go by a lot of the advice being handed out to guys about dating, you would think that getting dates and getting laid is simple: act as alpha as possible, remember that women are gold-digging, status-climbing whores who only want the highest status males (and will ignore, use and/or cheat on everyone else) [...]

Creep Shots and Predditors and Cat-calls, Oh My

Creepers gonna creep, yo.

Brace yourself folks, I’m writing about creepers again. I’ve heard from a number of folks asking just why I talk about creepers so often, and the answer is simple: I’m totally angling for a staff writing job at Jezebel. No. Really. OK, not really.1 The real answer, is because my blog’s purpose is to help people be better, [...]