Tell you what, the mad thing about women supposedly being even more wary of rejection in courtship than men, is that in the very rare instances in which they'll actually bother their arse to take the initiative and ask a bloke out for a drink or straight up state that they've got the eye for him, it's usually directed at men who are well out of their league, and with whom the chance of getting brushed off is a lot higher.

Work that one out. Seen it many times.

Playing devil's advocate, maybe it's the case that it's not quite such a disappointment if they already think at the outset that the bloke in question might be a bit of a long shot.

Then again, it's pretty common for women to show a mixture of shock and disbelief when they're forward with a bloke and don't get anywhere, so the devil's advocate is probably talking bollocks in this case as he so often does.

More likely they all just reckon they'd have a fair shot with the sort of blokes Salma Hayek could have got in the late '90s.

Anyone who says anything like this should be tasered, given the birch, then bent over in the stocks for an hour while members of the public take turns to boot them up the crack of their arse as hard as they possibly can.

Every day for the rest of their lives.

It's always been Rome Vs Judea

Wake up Romans

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Geddit up yer.

https://youtu.be/brqZ6jZiOFE?si=ODPwyOL6SK7bol73

Accuse me and The Wizard of Odds of taking things like this too seriously if you want, but there is a point to it. The way women so often speak to their husbands or boyfriends is appalling.

I've not really got a dog in the fight, either in terms of having much bad personal experience in that regard, nor in there being any prospect of me settling down and having to deal with that sort of bollocks because that window's closed for me really.

But on the other hand, the number of them who think it's their prerogative to boss men around and speak to them like shit was one of many things that always made women in general seem like they weren't worth any of the effort. Ones who were both appealing enough in their good traits, and free of intolerable flaws were, and remain, like rocking horse shit.

'Halo' by Texas would have been a great song without the lyrics sticking some bird on a pedestal.

The strings and the drum sound on it are beautiful. Good guitar part in the choruses as well.

This just appeared on my Facebook feed.

Only posting it because I thought the one on the left was Steve Harley from Cockney Rebel at first.

I'll let you decide for yourselves whether the algo's spitting Pink News articles at me as rage bait or because I'm a secret queg.

Just read an article lamenting the fact that more and more people are using ChatGPT for relationship advice, and to help them with their dating app profiles and their replies in the initial stages of talking to a new person.

It was pointed out in the article that men are more likely to use AI than women for dating app profiles and replies.

I mean... What do they expect? Who has to do 95-99% of the initiation, the escalation, the attempting to give a good account of themselves, and the risking of rejection in courtship? It isn't women.

Women for the most part have no idea how much goes into it. I mean, consider Bumble as an example. Bumble is a dating app whose unique selling point was literally the fact that women messaged first, thus cutting out a load of ignored and unwanted interactions initiated by men. But it had to scrap that feature last year because women complained that it was too much work and too much pressure - basically just to send a message saying "Hi".

I mean, for the record, men generally doing the work is how it should be naturally.

But stuff like that article grates when, in the world we live in today, there are very few women without various traits that are significantly off-putting. Related to that but in addition to it is the fact that most of them don't seem to have a good understanding of how to be feminine and decent, and why it matters (or should matter). And in general, a lot of women seem to be utterly full of themselves, oblivious to their own flaws, and often profoundly obnoxious and entitled, and loads of them have personalities and vocabularies which seem to be made up almost entirely from a selection of insufferable social media and popular culture trends which give them the most poisonous beliefs and ideas, terrible role models, stupid, annoying interests, and even stupid, annoying ways of speaking.

So when it's like that and you see them whingeing about men using ChatGPT more than women do to help them while getting to know someone new, you sort of think, "Look at the state of you lot. You've no idea how lucky you are that men are still bothering to do anything at all to try and court you, and here you are moaning about how they go about it".

For the record, I've got no dog in this fight. I've never used AI to help me talk to anyone, I've only been properly interested in about three women in the past 15 years, and given that I'm 40 and single, it's neither here nor there to me personally, because that ship has almost certainly sailed in my case.

It's the more the fact that, had there been more decent women around, I might have found more than three of them genuinely appealing in the space of 15 years, and who knows, it might even have ended up working out with one of them.

I should caveat that by saying that despite being far from an oil painting, and so not exactly a chooser, I've always had a high threshold for really being interested in women in that way, so I'm probably not typical of most men.

But as women get more and more underwhelming and insufferable, the number of men who, by some sort of inevitable default, end up like I've always been (i.e. underwhelmed and irritated), has to be growing.

Turns out me and Shabana Mahmood have got something in common.

Congratulations to Scotland, who have just booked their place at next summer's World Cup in spectacular fashion against Denmark. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿