Sequel to Advice for the daughter I'll never have
- I have not met your mother, but I know she has damaged you.
Her doting has turned you into a big, fat whiny baby when you're sick. It is
important that you realize this. Your girlfriends and wives will not understand
why you're such an attention-whoring pansy when you get the sniffles.
Particularly if they're in labor.
- I know this goes against your hard-wiring, but teasing girls until they cry
is not an effective way to convey that you have a crush on them. Seriously.
They're nuts, little dude.
- Learn how to throw a ball. You can have a candyass arm, but if you can't
throw with correct form, you're in for a rough life.
- Never hit a girl. Even if she's bigger than you. Even if she hits you first.
Retaliation will not end well for you. Your merely getting hit is the best
possible outcome, here.
Exception: sisters. If you let your sisters hit you with impunity, you're in for a rough life.
- We know what you're doing behind that closed door. We don't care. Knock
yourself out.
- If you're gay, we're cool. Just be a top.
- If you're a born-again Christian, we're cool. Just don't visit.
- Never, ever date a male friend's ex without his permission.
- Never, ever grant your male friend permission to date your ex. Are you
fucking high?
- Girls who are smoking hot in high school are almost always delusional,
selfish people, and I don't mean just during high school. The attentions they
receive at this formative time warp them forever. Aim instead for the cute nerd. There
will be time for the young,
smoking hot girls later, between your marriages.
- Bathe. Work. Be courteous to servers. Don't call girls "sluts" just because they
don't want to go out with you. If you can just do these four things, you will be
among the most attractive 2% of the men in the world.
- When a love interest volunteers that "whore" is the most insulting
thing a man can call her, reflect on how this might have come up in the
past.
- All things being equal, work for a woman. Men working for men often
becomes a pissing contest, and guess who loses?
- When your girlfriend, mother, or female friend vents about
something, you will feel—in your every corpuscle—that she's asking you to
fix it. She's probably not. Resist your evolutionary imperative here.
- Women have the adorable habit of thinking the life out of everything, exhuming its grave,
resuscitating it, and then thinking the life out of it again. As you do not
think much at all, you will usually find their overthinky thinkingness quite handy.
Never admit this.
Note that her thinkingness will also bite you in the ass. She will parse your actions for meaning and nuance that are not there. Like any paramecium accused of higher functioning, you will be baffled by this. The more you protest that your putting Diet Coke in the grocery cart means that you want Diet Coke and not she's fat, the more she'll stick her finger down her throat. Do not engage. Just change the subject to compliments. She probably won't fall for it, but it will end the conversation.
- Almost any disaster in life, including messed up relationships, can be
undone. But not making kids. Do not accidentally knock a girl up. Kids are
forever. It's a life-wrecker for everyone, especially the kid. If she's on
the pill, congrats—but you're still responsible for helping her remember to
take the thing.
- I adore women. Everyone I love is a woman. I was raised by a woman, and everything I know
about being a man, I learned from a woman. That said, they are pure evil. They will
give you secret tests, especially when they're young. You must learn to
navigate these. It starts with your mother, who'll ask you "Do you think
this blouse is slimming?" when you're still in the womb. Like "Which of my
friends is the prettiest?" later on, there is no right answer. Say nothing and change the subject.
- One of the tests will be whether you can figure out what's on her mind
without her telling you directly. This is a test of your...oh, I don't
know...let's say "tolerance of game-playing." The surest way to nip that in
the bud is to pretend you don't notice what's going on. Her hints will
become more overt, but stay the course. You notice nothing. You are a spore,
so this is entirely plausible to her. Eventually she will give up the
charade and speak in short, declarative sentences.
- Before you start dating, do two things for me:
- Create an online persona where you're an modestly attractive girl. The
ensuing tsunami of creeps will teach you a lot about a woman's world.
Although it will make you truly despise men, it will make you a better man. - When you know an athletic girl well enough to make this request of her,
wrestle her. Try to pin her down. You will be amazed how easily you can
overpower even strong girls. This too will change your perspective
forever.
That strangling terror you'll suddenly feel is called "empathy."
Although it'll make you want to hermetically seal every woman you've
ever cared about, it will serve you well. - Create an online persona where you're an modestly attractive girl. The