Breaking Yahoo News: The 5 Biggest Dating Mistakes That Men Make
From: http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/datingtips/62971/the-5-biggest;_ylc=X3oDMTFmaGNkdDNpBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwX3RvZGF5BHNsawN0aGUtNS1iaWdnZXN0BHp6A2Fi
(Above: Andrea Syrtash: cocktease)
Every few weeks Yahoo will put some bad dating tips on their front page so that you’ll join their personals site, use the tips, and therefore have to keep using their personals site. Planned obsolescence.
They’re always super corny and written by someone from the 1950’s. Meet Andrea Syrtash, a lifecoach (haha) who is writing some fluff pieces for Yahoo! Personals to raise money to buy a few more vowels for her last name. She also likes hanging out on decks at summerhouses (hey, who doesn’t).
Andrea gives us a list of the top 5 mistakes that men make. When you look at Andrea you can tell she’s probably made the bulk of her mistakes in fraternity houses. I’ve edited out the “explanations” of these rules to save time and space:
1. Men Show Off or Try to Impress Too Much.
2. Men Don’t Listen to Us When We’re Talking.
3. Men Aren’t Chivalrous.
4. Men Don’t Take Initiative.
5. Men Say They’ll Call and Then Don’t.
Andrea closes up shop with this gem:
If you follow these simple steps, you’ll be ahead in the dating game. At least you’ll get an ‘A’ for effort.
A few minor problems here: Mistake #1 (let’s assume these are numbered by importance) is contradicted by the rest of the tips, except #5 which isn’t actually a mistake but something men do on purpose after sexing some goodlooking but dull chick (like Andrea).
Let’s recap here. Men, don’t try too hard to impress women (#1).
However listen to them when they’re yammering on about stupid bullshit (#2, which supposedly, will impress women, something you shouldn’t be doing).
Also open doors and walk on the inside of the sidewalk and also wear a metal suit and fight with other people in metal suits so that all other knight errantry will know of your mighty arm. (#3)
Take the initiative (#4) but also listen to that bitch too, but don’t do any of this to impress her too much.
Let her know that you’re really on the hook by calling at the EXACT time you say you will (#5). Once she knows you’re in the bag, she’ll probably go back to her Yahoo Personals mailbox and find some dude who isn’t so predictable and such a pussy.
Then after that happens, plunk down your $20 monthly dues and find another one of Yahoo’s hags.
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Luke
I googled Andrea because I was intrigued by her and came across this rant. Dude - she wasn’t saying men suck- she offered some good advice in a short article she’s a pretty amazing writer and author but clearly nobody’s read any of her other work) Not cool and I just wanted to post something to say I could not disagree more! And - I heard she’s married (which truly sucks) so I highly doubt she’s upset a guy doesn’t call her.
December 9th, 2007 at 9:34 pmandyfox1979
Luke– Andrea is hot and has that vaguely attainable look; agreed. I didn’t say she wrote that men suck, I said it was a fluff piece and a bad one at that.
I’m sure she is married, btw. Relationship advice columns aren’t written by single libertines, nor should they be.
Also, i’m just joking around here. Don’t take stuff so seriously.
-AF
December 9th, 2007 at 9:42 pmromi41
Haha, I can’t stand those useless Yahoo!/MSN articles, and no I’m not just joking around, because YES they are alarmingly contradictory “blatherous” (yes I made up a word) , and NO you don’t walk away feeling like you learned anything in the end, and INDEED, I don’t give a flying fuck if the author has some really cool other work floating around the Internet; if anything, that really cool work only gets diminished by knowing that the fucking author sold out to write some useless “advice tripe”…
Wow, it felt good to say that, and perhaps I have a history of despising these articles, as evidenced by 4 or 5 posts of mine from the old blog days…
PS: I know, I know, I don’t HAVE to read the articles, no one is forcing me, but then I’d have nothing to gripe about, so it kinda works out
December 9th, 2007 at 10:17 pmMichael
I don’t know, man, I like the writer. She’s hot and smart…she used to write history books, or something crazy like that & she also writes comedy. Some of the advice on Yahoo’s stupid, I’ll give you that. I don’t know why they try to solve people’s lives in like 200 words. Anyway, her thing was better than most and I subscribe to her show (you’re right, too, she’s hot/accessible. I feel like I could date her even tho I know I probably couldn’t)
December 10th, 2007 at 1:03 am