One of the most important parts of getting better at dating is being able to recognize the mistakes you’ve made. After all, you learn very little from your successes and far more from your failures. Of course, sometimes you have an embarrassment of riches… Of course, the point of looking back at your unforced errors is…
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5 Ways You Sabotage Your Love Life
One of the most important things I can teach people about dating is simple: dating success is 80% attitude and 20% skill and presentation. No matter how good looking you may be or how suave you may think you are, a shitty attitude is going to sabotage your success and snatch defeat from the jaws…
How To Avoid Getting “The Fade”
One of the trickier aspects of improving your dating life is that there’s always another level to master. It’s easy to assume that once you’ve made it past that initial hump – building a cool wardrobe, getting over your approach anxiety and generally learning how to connect with potential dates – that it’s all smooth…
What’s Really Wrong With Nice Guys – Entitlement, Nerds and Neanderthals
One thing you learn quickly in the dating advice business: some topics are more or less evergreen. And with the recent explosion on social media, it’s a good time to talk about one of my favorite topics: Nice Guys. After all, what better way could we ring in a new year than by looking at…
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How To Not Be Creepy
As Creep Week comes to a close again and we all start to feel like it’s safe to get back into the dating pool, I want to talk about the fear of being labeled “creepy”. There are a lot of people – mostly the socially inexperienced – who worry about being called “creepy” by women and…
Nerds and Male Privilege: Sexual Harassment and Nerd Culture
Occasionally, it feels like the comics and video game industries have a competition to demonstrate which group can be more hostile and unfriendly towards the women who want to participate in them. It’s like a particularly fucked up game of Texas Grope ‘Em; comics has the little blind with Joe Peacock’s comments about fake geek…
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