A few days ago, a friend of mine told the story of how a random guy tried to pick her up over Facebook. The only thing they had in common before he tried to slide into her DMs like yeah were that both of them were members of the same Facebook group; up until that…
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5 Times When You Shouldn’t Approach Women
Anyone who reads my site for long enough knows I’m a big proponent of the cold approach. Learning how to approach women, strike up a conversation and charming them into being interested in going on a date with you is a difficult – but important – skill to master. But just as important as it…
Socially Awkward Isn’t An Excuse
It’s that time of year again: convention season gets started, students go on Spring Break and we brace ourselves for a new round of stories about creepers, predators and generally shitty dating behavior. It’s Creep Week 2014: like Shark Week, except during Shark Week everyone is actually rooting for the shark. So it’s time to talk about creepy…
Ask Dr. NerdLove: Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Hello Doctor NerdLove, I’m 25 and been reading your website for over a year since my friend C. recommending it to me. For about that same time, I’ve been dating my girlfriend, L, 23. This has been the first great, stable relationship for me in a long time. Now she is bisexual with a stronger…
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Ask Dr. NerdLove: Creeper No Creeping!
It’s Creep Week on Paging Dr. NerdLove – we’re talking about reforming creepers, how to handle them when you’re confronted by them and how to not be that guy at popular nerd gatherings. Today we have the letter that kicked things off: a reader who wants to know how to handle a creeper in the fringes…
OKCupid Creepers and Race Fetishism
It seems like it’s been a bumper year for calling out OKCupid creepers via Tumblr – Nice GuysofOKC, OKCupidGoldMine… even FedorasOfOKCupid1 which helped turn another fashion choice into a way that nature tells us “Do Not Touch“. Online dating tends to mean that people often let their filters down – the anonymity combined with the impersonalization…