Gloria Steinem is now apologizing for the unintelligent statement she made about young women supporting Bernie to make young men like them. The statement is not only taken straight from the 1940s but is also also very ignorant of the basic laws of romantic engagement.
If you are young and want a particular person to like you, don’t agree with them! To the contrary, find something they care about and express a contrary opinion in a tired voice and prefacing it with, “As we all know. . .” And then behave as if the issue were so clear that it required no further discussion. Even 11 – year-olds today know that this is a winning strategy.
Of course, people who are older dispense with these youthful tricks because they know that a partner who requires effort is not worth it. The only partner who makes sense is the one who needs no convincing, persuading or purposeful attempts to attract.
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I missed this lesson in guile completely.
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Yeah, it’s way too late for us, and that’s great. Youth is highly overrated in my experience.
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Youth is highly overrated in my experience.
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I suppose next she’ll tell us how guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses. And to put myself first (in a sexy way)
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Gentlemen prefer blondes! But they marry brunettes!
Or, as people in my culture still say, the toilet is a woman’s true face. (Meaning that if your toilet is not shiny clean, you have failed as a woman.)
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Damn.
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Yes, we are screwed. 🙂
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You mean people take those cleaning ads with women dressed in business casual wearing pearls seriously?
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Well, in my country women don’t go out to buy a sack of potatoes before applying makeup, doing their hair and decking themselves out in a kilo of costume jewelry and high heels. It took me years to get used to popping out to the corner store without all this hassle.
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Youth is wasted on the young 😉
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So true. 🙂
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You all sound like a bunch of old fogeys. 🙂 There are genuine, worthwhile attributes of youth that don’t survive into old age, and those attributes were treasures while they lasted — made the trip from toddler to old man worth it at every stage along the way.
Cut the kids some slack –it’s not their fault they’re so inexperienced and naive. The smart one will outgrown that. (The dumbs ones will grow up to be socialists.)
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If you had a good time in your youth, that’s fantastic. But I had a horrible time and can’t believe I’m done with all that shit.
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Sheesh: learly Steinem has never been to a meeting of a local Bernie cell. My teen has, and if she were in it for the booty, she’d have quit long ago. There are easier ways to meet guys and better ways to find guys you’d actually want to hang out with. The “Berniebro” stereotype is not entirely inaccurate.
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“There are easier ways to meet guys and better ways to find guys you’d actually want to hang out with. ”
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“I’m licking envelopes. This is so sexy. I have a paper cut on my tongue. Wanna see?”
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