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Was the 1950s Housewife a Historical Aberration?

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1950s housewifeColt wrote yesterday on whether women really want to be treated as equals (or not), and it got me thinking about what men on the whole seem to want, and whether that's all that grounded in reality or not.

I talked before about my belief that most of the bitter women men think are out there are really just Internet bitter; in the echo chamber of the World Wide Web, it's pretty easy for one's thoughts to sound like extreme versions of themselves, and it's also very easy to treat others unempathetically, judge, excoriate, and attack, in spiteful ways online that we wouldn't dare do with even our worst enemies live and in person.

When you stop and think about it though, there sure are a whole lot of sensitive people right now ready to respond on a hair trigger with a vicious attack both online and (with a bit more subtlety) in real life, and there's a whole lot of lamenting about where all the "good men" and "good women" have gone, both from men and women. Why?

I'm going to propose here that there is a large undercurrent of wanting more than one's station in life among average men and women, without caring to elevate one's station accordingly. And that that undercurrent of wanting things without doing the requisite things to get them is what drives all this anger, torment, and strife.

It's simply a case of unmet expectations, played out at grand scale society-wide.

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Anonymous's picture

I do believe "A" should be used in place of "An" in the title.

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Anon-

Thanks for the correction. I've always been a fan of the old British English pronunciation and spelling - it just rolls off the tongue a lot more fluidly - but running a quick check shows me "an" is increasingly falling out of favor, even in British English, and "a historical" / "a history" has more or less become the norm.

So, in this case, I bow to the encroaching tides of modernization... the title now reads "a Historical."

Chase

Black Mystery's picture

Hey chase,
great article! Agree with your view. What reminds me from that part where you mentioned about WWW is that is there any way to get a girl who has loose her temper because of a jerk comment?
I was in pretty bad mood on that day and I criticise this girl I am madly in love with and told her "don't even bother to reply" if she can't talk in more decently as she was using rough words. Now this girl is only can be in my contact through Social Networking Site only and this is the only way to get her number or to meet her at this moment. She removed me after that my message and loosed her temper too much that she even threaten to beat me down by her friends and tell me not to send her message again. But she didn't block me and she used to like me (60% confident). Only the fact that I screw things very much by being insecure, less powerful, moving too slow. Total mess in short.
But after coming here on this site. I'm improving a bit (though the last one wasn't a smart act. I thought she'd say sorry but messed up!). After some hours I said her sorry for making her loose her temper. She read the message but didn't reply. Then after a week I send a message again. She read that message too but didn't reply. After a month then I send her message and friend request she read it too but didn't accept friend request but didn't decline too. After some days I send her last message and took my request back but then she didn't reply me yet. It's been a 3 months from that incident. I seems to have no way to get her.
From what I have learn from this site is that After 4 messages I have send I should not send her any more message and meanwhile meet other girls to get that special girl out of my head. And if she comes then I should not be jerk again. But I'm still at beginners level. It's theoretical knowledge. You do have practical knowledge and theoretical too. Is that what I really should do? and any more suggestions? Is there any way to get back to should I quite here?

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BM-

Yes, this is a situation where you need to cut your losses and move on.

If it was just the blow-up message you'd sent, there are a few ways you could try to turn that to your advantage and reverse things ("I didn't mean it, sorry; let me make it up to you" --> offer to take her out).

But once you've started sending her messages, friend requests, etc., you're so firmly into chasing behavior that anything else you do, no matter how smooth or suave you structure it to be, is a dead giveaway; she KNOWS you like her way more than she likes you, she knows you're chasing her hard, and she knows she ISN'T chasing you back. There's nothing you can do aside from inspiring her to chase you from her seeing you preselected somehow to get her back, or you throwing some huge amount of non-sexual value her way (e.g., you're hosting the most amazing party of the year and you're extending her an invite).

Your best move here is to start meeting more women - do a good job at it, and you won't long be stuck on this one.

Chase

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Hey Chase,

I hope all has been well with you, brother. I love the improvements to the site, and I am glad this thing has really taken off. You deserve it...

I just want to ask where the best place to leave general questions are? Even though it seems that your team is very busy, you all usually answer comments on new blog posts pretty promptly. But, sometimes I read over old articles and I have all of these questions that come to mind. Where is the best place to pose these questions? What about suggestions for new articles?

I am running into a weird issue where girls reach out to me out of the blue, or are the ones who say "we should get a drink sometime", but for some reason, they end up flaking. I don't know how to handle the situation properly. For example, a girl will reach out from an encounter 6 months ago and say... "Hey, hope you've been well. Sorry for being MIA, but we should grab a drink or coffee sometime soon!"... I am guessing that I should move fast on setting up logistics, but sometimes these women act flakey. Am I being over eager? Am I being too non-chalant? I am really confused about this one...

Thanks in advance! If you could let me know where to post these requests in the future, I will certainly do so!

Best,
Scott

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Hey Scott! Long time no talk.

Yeah, you can leave comments on recent articles. That's the easiest place to reach me. Better if they're relevant, but I don't usually comment on older articles just because if I did that, I'd have no time in my day for anything other than comment answering... ;) The forum's also a very good bet if you have LOTS of questions - quite a few very sharp guys on there.

The girls-reaching-out-for-coffee-then-flaking thing is kind of weird at first, yeah. I always had girls do that to me, and it kind of confused me for a while. Then I started doing it myself - I'd ping girls from the past, say we should meet up, they'd say, "Yeah, sure!" and then I'd either never schedule something, or I'd flake, and just not reschedule. I can tell you my psychology (and I'm pretty sure it's the same for the girls) is that it's just not as exciting meeting up from someone from your past, and the emotion you feel when you reach out to them ("Okay! Yeah! Let's do this! Let's contact some sexy people from the past and set up times to meet them!") quickly subsides back into apathy ("Eh... do I REALLY want to go meet [X] tomorrow? I have to get up early and drag myself halfway across town... or, I could just stay in and [do whatever]. Yeah - let me just tell her I can't make it"). I think it's because nothing's happened with this person in the past, and once the initial buzz wears off, you start to (reasonably) expect that meeting up will lead to nothing happening all over again, and just be a waste of your time.

I've found the best strategy is to usually jump on this when it happens - when you get the girl pinging you, just get it scheduled ASAP - "Yeah, what's your schedule like this week? Or even, what's it like today - want to grab dinner?" The sooner you can make it happen, the more likely you are to catch her before she's slid back into apathy again, and still on her, "Let's do this!" kick.

Chase

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Chase- long time indeed!

Thanks for the reply. I figured that commenting on something new was my best bet. I have been checking out the forums; they are pretty helpful. On the other hand, I am a Chase fan- been here since the beginning days when it was just you! :-P So, sometimes I find comfort in grass roots; I mean that as a compliment.

Yeah, I have been taking the route of trying to set things up quickly. At the same time, I was concerned with sounding too excited about hearing from the girl. Then, you can sound a bit needy- like you don't get much play. Haven't really found the balance between rebuilding rapport, and getting plans set up stat. Also, when girls end up flaking on things like these, I tend to throw the ball back in their court pretty quickly. As a matter of fact, I have been doing that with a lot of girls lately. Starting to get a little too flakey? Next... I don't have the time these days.

Anyhow, I have been reading up again. I always find inspiration in your writing- not just with women, but in everyday psychology- dealing with emotions and taking control of situations. I think you have an honest approach, and you shoot it straight. Glad the site has really taken off!

Words from the wise- Onward and Upward,
Scott

Balla's picture

So I reviewed the video, and what I got from it was that he's cocky and funny. Honestly his fundamentals look good to me and I would copy him. I would really appreciate your opinion of his fundamentals though so I can know what I can do with what you and i like and do differently what you don't like about him, so I can just be 100% you feel me? And im extremely curious to see how you feel about his game honestly.

Here's the video http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BkdJIRt0cFg

You can just skip to the 1:50 mark to see the game he runs, but like 20 seconds before that it shows how another guys game is and he is correcting on how to run game from the previous guys mistakes, just in case you want to know what he was talking about prior.

Thanks Chase

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Balla-

I watched from 1:50 to 2:50, and his posture, walk, gestures, and mannerisms all look fine. The dialogue is awkward, he gives out his number after a few seconds of conversation with no interest shown from her to him, and he opens her from a distance, then walks directly up to her while giving her much more open body than she's giving him, all big no-nos, but that might be because he's doing it on stage and the woman herself is clearly uncomfortable (and a bad actor) as well.

Chase

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On second thought, the "give you my number" thing as she's leaving is not necessarily a bad call; do enough of those 1% chance "Oh, you're leaving? Well, here's my number anyway" moves and you'll occasionally get some contact back. So, in the event it doesn't work out, that one's a judgment call - it's usually not going to work out, but you never know.

Chase

jack's picture

Fascinating, you've dealt with female hypergamy in a non-misogynist way unlike most of the Manosphere.

IMO, in the end Game or the seduction arts allows a man to capitalize on a woman's short term mating impulses. This allows men to have sex with the attractive women in the short term that he would never be able to win over as a wife. But if an attractive woman wants money, and she doesn't wait too long (ie her looks start to fade) she will get money. If you are a PUA/Player you get to fuck her in her 20s or if she comes out of her divorce in her 30s but you don't get to marry her. The Marriage market has better value matching than the sexual market.

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Jack-

Yes, indeed. You'll see plenty of guys who are great at getting laid but end up consistently frustrated at their inabilities to get good girls to stick around - the polar opposites of the guys who can't sleep with women fast to save their lives but once they've got a girl, they've got a girl. That's nothing but the differences between sexual value and marriage value unfolding live.

Chase

Anonymous's picture

Chase,

Regarding the usage of "a" and "an," use the word "an" comes before words that begin with a vowel, while the letter "a" precedes all words beginning with a letter other than a vowel. Hope this helps!

Sincerely,
The Grammar Police ;)

PinotNoir's picture

Actually, it's for a vowel *sound*, not all vowels. Please read the article below. :)

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/a-versus-an?page=all

-PN

Nuncle's picture

An "n" would have been the correct usage, or at least the one that was in place for several decades until recently.

An "h" is considered a silent, or at least soft, letter and as such does not block any vowels that come immediately after it.

Also "a historical" sounds too much like "ahistorical", which has it's own separate meaning.

P's picture

Hi Chase,

So I met this girl the other night at an event, a real stunner with personality and humour to boot. I made her laugh and later at the bar she made a beeline for me. We got chatting some more and things went really well, I got her number and we talked about meeting up in the week to go see a band, then later on she leaned in and kissed me. After that we went off exploring the venue alone together hand in hand. She kept holding my hand, kissing me and leaning into me. I had to leave to get my train home. Kissed her goodnight and she said I should get in touch. The following evening I dropped her a text to say it was great to meet her and asked how her day had gone. I know now that was a stupid question. I then left it three days with no reply. Called her with no answer so left a voice message saying I'd checked some gigs for the week and said it would be cool to hear back to let me know what day is good. I think I may have sounded nervous and said a few goofy things about enjoying our earlier evening. I don't really know what to do next? I mean obviously wait, but have I chased too much already? Can I turn it around? I was reading your "What to do when a girl doesn't reply" and "Keeping your cool: don't chase" articles and I'm caught between persistence and not chasing

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Can anyone help me with this? I appreciate Chase himself is probably busy

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P-

Check out this article: "How to Kiss Girls in Public and Have It Go Great."

The big problem here is the kissing / hand-holding without sex - unless you're doing it expertly, it's going to tend to be read in her mind as the initiation of sexual escalation, and if sex doesn't very promptly follow that up, she's usually going to decide that the reason why was because she just wasn't that into you, and won't have interest in having anything further with you.

You can try firing off another text, and try calling again / leaving a voice mail if she doesn't answer - see this article for more on that: "Tactics Tuesdays: Making the First Phone Call to a Girl."

Much of the time though, you will find that once you've kissed a girl but NOT slept with her immediately after, she's more or less gone for good. Next time, either do the kissing in public the expert way (where you're ALWAYS being the first to break it off), or (the safer bet) just save it for when you're alone together and about to get intimate.

Chase

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Hey Chase,

Solid article again. Your outlook on history is always profound; maybe your next book should be a history of sorts ;)

Anyway, in relation to this article, it got me thinking about marriage one day and prenupts. Do you advise men to get prenupts? And is there a graceful way to bring up a prenupt without anger from the bride-to-be?

Thanks,
-PN

P.S. For the Grammar Police, I write my replies in conversational English, which means I don't care haha.

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PN-

I was actually working on a book that had a lot of the history of dating in it! Since that one's on ice (rejected by every publisher, and I don't have the bandwidth to self-publish another book right now), some of the material I'd included in there has been finding its way into articles of late.

Pre-nups are good, but they're easily overturned (especially if you don't have both sides review the agreement with a lawyer present for each), and they're a messy thing to introduce into a relationship / marriage process. The much better route, if you have significant assets or run your own business, is to form a trust and place everything you own into it. At that point, the trust is a separate legal entity, and one that you have no control over (you can be the beneficiary of it, but you are not an owner).

Just make sure you move your assets over BEFORE you get married, because if you do it after, if she's legally savvy and has a good lawyer and wants what you've got, she can probably find a way to reverse your granting of your property to the trust so that it becomes yours and she can take a slice of it.

Chase

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Hey Chase, as usual loved the article, very interesting stuff.

I have a few questions regarding seduction that I hope you could answer for me (I have done my best to read all articles relating to my questions, but if you could just clear some issues up directly that would be great)

1) How important is building an emotional connection prior to taking a girl to bed? Specifically when it comes to meeting a girl in a bar with the intention of taking her home. My head says that an building an emotional connection is important and necessary for some girls but not others, is this true? If so, how can you tell with a girl if she requires an emotional connection to be built prior to anything happening? What I am trying to get at is that, I find it very hard to know when to deep dive etc with a girl for a while before pushing things forward and when to just do a bit of casual chit chat and move things on pretty quickly without much of an emotional connection being created.

2) How to find the correct balance between being sexy and open? Here is what I believe to be my main dilemma, I think sometimes I come across as slightly too much and too intense. I always think that I look sexier when I frown a bit with my eyebrows, but obviously this leads to me looking very intense etc. I have (if i may say) very good fundamentals and looks, and I sometimes feel that I need to 'downgrade' myself in someway to open myself up and come across as more attainable to girls. I just don't know how to go about opening myself up whilst maintaining a healthy balance.

Its like when I am in a group situation and I can tell a girl is into me by her constant little, almost shy glances etc - but whenever I engage I always feel as though the girl feels too nervous and as though her nervousness is actually bad for my seduction, its like she doesn't know what to say and all that. I may have this all wrong though and perhaps her nerves are a good thing... Can you clear this up? Thanks.

I suppose partly its down to me not being a good enough conversationalist etc.

But tell me, is it GOOD if a girl you haven't talked to yet, feels a bit nervous around you etc or should you try to come across as very open to her so that she has no nerves etc and perhaps even comes to open me herself? I just find girls nerves always makes things hard ie conversation, eye contact etc etc.

3) I know how important generalizations are to get to the point of an issue without having to go on for ages about specifics and exceptions to the rulse and to kind of universally bring everything together in the 'most likely' format - but tell me, you know when you say most girls eventually want marriage, kids etc etc - is it not possible to find a girl with a brain who understands the superficiality and institutionalization behind 'the big day' 'diamond rings' 'love for life' etc. I mean, lets face it, nothing changes when you marry, really.

I get the 'saving face socially' thing - but surely some girls must be above this also? I mean I couldn't give a fuck what people think about how I wish to live my life, in fact I love it when people go on about how I should be doing this and that and I just think, yeh well im not, so ha, surely it is possible to find girls like this who wish to do things differently and challenge the norm.

I only ask because I find girls who are real, and honest and able to think for themselves even if it means doing things differently such an attractive
characteristic.

I've been with girls in the past who started talking about marriage etc and I remember thinking at the time 'ohh you've bought into all that have you, and here I was thinking you could stand on your own two feet'

Kids are different, I understand a woman's natural maternal urge etc - but even here, I have known plenty cases of happy women who chose not to have kids, just because they didn't believe they would make very good parents or because they didn't want the responsibility and not be able to live their live the way they want, etc.

Just tell me that girls like that exist :)

4) Just a quick little bonus question on age - how important is it, really, when it comes to relate-ability? I ask because whenever I hear of age gap relationships the number one argument is 'ohhh how can they possible relate, what do they talk about' it always makes me laugh. As if you spend all day talking about your childhood with your girlfriend anyway. If anything I think it can be a nice bonus to have a few differences to learn from one another etc.

I have been in and witnessed a few large gap relationships and in my opinion personality's can match at any age, hobbies can match at any age, desires can match at any age, goals can match at any age - these things are largely a byproduct of circumstances rather than age itself and people giving into social demand. For example I know a good few middle age men who hate golf really, they find it boring - but they play it, purely because they believe they should. What a load of bullshit. Its crazy.

One man is 40 and is in a long hour middle management job, and thus has no time to travel, despite his 24yr old girlfriend wanting to.

Another man, 40, has an easy lifestyle and one day think he would love to travel somewhere, matching the desires of his 24yr old girlfriend.

Both men would probably love to travel, but only one can. Because of circumstances, not age.

And circumstances can obviously be age related. But not in all cases, not if you live slightly differently.

So basically, how important do you believe age itself really is when it comes to relationships and being able to relate etc? I mean age in reality is purely the measurement of how long you have lived on the earth. Just because someone has lived longer why should that mean differences?

Also if there was no social stigma attached to age gap relationships how common do you suspect they would be?

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Chase, sorry for all the questions but I really value your advice. Thank you.

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Jack-

Yes, that's correct - you can skip emotional connections in some cases and with some women. A good rule of thumb is try to build emotional connections while also escalating compliance; if she'll comply with you, but she resists building an emotional connection, assume that that means she's interested in you but not interested in a connection, and just start driving things toward the two of you ending up somewhere alone together as quickly as possible.

Re: dialing down the intensity - what you want is the "cute & sexy" look from this article: "7 Facial Expressions That Drive Women Wild"; specifically, think of it as raising your eyebrows up, "lightening" your face, and smiling a bit more and pursing your lips. This dials back the intensity for women it's too much for, while still staying sexy. That said, it certainly IS good for girls to feel a little nervous around you at first, then to be (quickly) put to ease. Does a lot of good things for you in the interaction.

As for women who don't care about diamond rings, lifelong love, etc. - yes, absolutely there are women out there who shrug this off! I've been fortunate to have known quite a few of them myself - their values mesh better with mine than the lovey-dovey "where's-my-diamond-ring?" girls' do. Most will still usually have some artefact of it - they remain mildly interested in it, and bring it up on occasion - but, especially with you leading the way in (important: be indifferent, not angry), they can feel free to not worry about these social norms so much… unless they have people around them who are really pushing them to (and whom they aren't cutting ties with).

Children, same deal - there are women who want children but don't care about marriage, and there are women who don't want children or marriage. Go to any cougar bar and you'll find women in their 40s and 50s who are still partying, living the Sex and the City lifestyle, and are childless and happy to be childless; while that would drive many women crazy, there are other women who couldn't be happier to not have children to take care of.

I don't think relatability is the deal breaker with age gaps; I'd say it's interests more than anything. If the couples' interests are aligned, it works; if they aren't, it falls apart. e.g., he's 35 and he's over the club scene because it's so passé; meanwhile, she's 21 and just hitting the club scene, and it's excitement and stimulation and whoa, look at that sexy guy! And that one wants to buy me a drink! Oh wow! Pretty soon, the relationship's kaput.

But, make the 35-year-old still be a hard partier in love with the club scene, or make the 21-year-old uninterested in clubbing, and give them both some similar interests like boating or travel that they can indulge in, and they'll be fine.

And, I'd bet more common than you see in the West sans-stigma, though still in the minority. Having spent time in China, I can tell you that there many women are actually encouraged to date older men, and women openly talk about how older men are more mature than younger men and are superior to them - it isn't even a money thing (sometimes it is, but not usually); it's just a "silverbacks are hot and make good husbands while young guys have nothing to offer" thing. There, it seems like the average age gap is a fair bit larger. In the U.S., the age gap between marriage partners has shrunk significantly since the sexual revolution, but I don't think that's stigma - stigma has surprisingly little effect on people's actual actions (they might be driven underground, but they'll still be there). Instead, I think it's just the effect of the blurring of the lines between men and women there, or the balancing out of income - the appeal of the established older man is perhaps not as strong in a society where women often earn more than their male counterparts and where most older men are neither attractive nor powerful.

Chase

Anonymous's picture

I heard another reason for the rather rampart 1950s ideal housewife as is evident in numerous TV shows like Donna Reed and My Three Sons, is that at that time the outliers of feminism was just started to rear its ugly head. So, Hollywood fought it by showing Americans what they thought was the ideal primm and proper woman. So, yes. The 1950s housewife was an aberration. Sadly, perception is often reality so this myth of the housewife has stuck to this day. It makes me a little sad that I gave up a potential relationship with this girl that just wanted a traditional life, with her at home cooking and raising the kids while I made the dough. Then again, we really had nothing in coming and I vowed never to be one of those families I see in restaurants having dinner but never exchanging a word with one another.

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Anon-

Interesting. I'd be surprised - I think Hollywood is much more interested in making money than in making social statements - but perhaps individual directors had social agendas, or maybe the studios thought there was more money to be made in generating "wholesome" entertainment that families would gather around and watch together (and soak up the advertising for together).

I wouldn't worry too much about losing a girl who wanted to be a traditional wife who stays home, cooks, and takes care of the children. If both anecdotal and research evidence tells us anything, it's that plenty of career women become stay-at-home moms after Child #1 or Child #2 are born. Women change their priorities pretty radically once they start producing children, often in ways they never in a million years expected to change themselves.

Chase

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Chase, I was thinking, if a girl falls in love with you before having sex, is this actually an advantageous thing or not? Because surely she is going to work very hard to slot you into her dream boyfriend role and delay sex?

As opposed to when a girl just finds you so hot and sexy, doesn't nesacery love you yet and so she is easier to get into bed?

It's just I've read several articles a few by ricardus and they all say that having a girl fall in love with you is great if you can do it.

And it probably is, I'm probably missing something. Can you clear this one up.

Is it right also that you as a man particularly early on shoulnt show your love for a girl if there is any? But instead reveal it slowly.

It's like when I have sex with a girl who I love, it's different, more passionate slow and sensual as opposed to hard, raw and heated.

Can you explain which way of having sex is better. I belive most of the advice on here leans towards the latter. But for some reason I find it hard doing all that stuff with a girl I really like, but I am confused which way does she prefer, really?

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Anon-

I have maybe one personal experience of a girl falling for me before we first slept together, but there wasn't much discernible difference in the early stages of the relationship aside from the fact that she was a LOT more excited about the build up to sex when we actually had it (which kind of made the initial seduction a lot more fun in some ways than the usual, drier fast route) and she was just smitten and happy to be together once we were, so relatively drama-free (but, then, that's how that girl was with her boyfriends before and after me, too, so probably unrelated). Aside from that, I can't speak too intelligently about any differences there might be between first sex transpiring before love and first sex occurring after love.

I'd recommend never showing love too early, yes. If you have trouble with this, just keep in mind the rule of never let on more than a little bit less emotion than what she shows you. So long as you're a little bit less into her (so far as she knows), you're fine. If she starts to think you're more smitten with her than she is with you, though, you can kiss attraction goodbye (usually).

As for sex, slow and soft is fine sometimes, but hard, raw, and animalistic takes the brass ring even with a girl you have emotion for. A woman's number one desire during sex is to FEEL desired, and nothing makes a woman feel desired like a man tearing into her body with passion, fury, and reckless abandon. The more a girl loves you, in fact, the more she adores hard, raw sex, and if you have a girl you're seeing casually whom you DON'T want to fall in love, you're actually better served keeping the sex with her gentler and calmer. Giving it to her raw and hard is a surefire path to making her hear birds chirping and mice singing and everything else that happens in a Disney movie when you start to fall in love.

Chase

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Most of what people think about in regards to a classic, Golden era in American history, usually around the mid-20th century, is nothing more than an idealized view of America through the lens of the media that came out at that time. There actually is no "Leave It To Beaver" reality to the 1950s; that is a product of the media. The media I'm talking about are the TV shows of the 1950s that make people today think America was some sort of perfect place at that time.

Oh, how wrong this is. There's a great book I implore anyone on this site (especially you, Chase) to read. It's called "The Way We Never Were" by Stephanie Coontz. As the book description points out, "Coontz sheds new light on such contemporary concerns as parenting, privacy, love, the division of labor along gender lines, the black family, feminism, and sexual practice." Go ahead and just read the chapters about women and sex if you want to keep things withing the scope of girlschase.com and relationships.

The part on womens roles is particularly interesting. For example, did you know the pregnancy rate of premarital women was actually higher in the 1950s? This book will shatter most notions people have about life in the any era in American history and will make you realize there was never a time in America when the "perfect housewife" stereotype dominated American households. Even teenage crime rates and other socioeconomic issues that people today think are signs of the times, have been around in American history for quite some time, and if anything, these things were generally worse in the early to mid-twentieth century than they are now.

On that note, this article was a great read as always Chase. It's nice to see this site delving deeper into man-woman relationship than just dating and sex. Well done as always, and do give that book a read. Even if it's just for those one or two chapters. It'll be well worth your time.

Cheers,
Walt

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Walt-

Thanks for the recommendation; I'll add it to my reading list. I did quite a bit of research for perspectives and statistics like these before (including reading through 17th, 18th, and 19th century newspaper clippings, periodicals, letters, and diaries) when I was working on a book on relationships, and this kind of material is rather hard to find, so if there's a book out there already that delves into it, that'd certainly make for very interesting reading for me!

Cheers,
Chase

Anonymous's picture

Dear Chase,

I have a situation I was wondering if you would be kind enough to give me some advice on.

I am 25 years old and just started graduate school. I am a virgin due to religious reasons.

Dating is hard for me even though I have "good fundamentals" since girls usually want sex. Usually, what happens is girls get attracted but after a month, they leave when they want sex and I decide to not give it.

When I first started graduate school, I met a super conservative korean girl during the first week. About 1 month later, I used your "check-in" text line to get her out on a date.

The lunch date went ok but after that, I didnt follow or talk to her except when I would run into her. Recently, I found out she shares similar values to me and is still a virgin at age 24. This made me realize I REALLY wanted to pursue her.

However, I am concerned that I may have been friendzoned since about 2.5 months have passed since that last lunch date.

My main question questions are:

1) Would the "check-in" text work again and how would you restructure it?

2) Since a lot of time has passed, she may see me as the "guy who probably just wants to be friends and I run into every now and then". Do you know if I still have a fair shot and how to turn this around, especially if I wont be having sex with her?

Thanks Chase!

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Anon-

Hmm. That's tricky. If I had to do a second "checking in after a long time text", I'd just write something like, "Hey Mi-Yun, sorry I fell off the face of the planet again! Anyway, it's been forever, but I enjoyed grabbing food with you last time - want to do it again sometime soon?"

As for turning things around, I'd simply up the intensity of my vibe this time around and do a lot more incidental touching, and then follow up with her after a (much shorter than last time) interval for a subsequent date.

On the dynamics of dating sans sex, I'm afraid I'm not much help there - theoretically, I'm not entirely sure how that works, and outside of what I hear about my maternal grandfather, who took my maternal grandmother on a few dates, then wrote her a letter proposing to her when she drove out of state to go meet someone else to get her to come back and marry him instead, I don't have any anecdotes I could share. My main instinct would be "make it a whirlwind romance and propose / get married ASAP, while the fire of desire and passion is still burning and hasn't been blown out by non-action."

Chase

Anonymous's picture

Is there a way to tell how much a girl likes you? I can tell when a girl is attracted to me, but I can't tell when it becomes a crush or when I'm the only one on her mind. Even if I'm dating a girl, I can't tell because it isn't anything tangible. Maybe you could write an article on the different degrees of attraction from curiosity to love to obsession (which might not be love?) and how to identity the stage she's in. I realize different girls may show love in different ways or have different capacities for love, but it's somewhat strange for a girl to like me but for me to not really be able to feel or understand where she is at.

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Anon-

I have an older post on the discussion boards that might be useful here:

Stages of Desire (2010)

"Obsession" would fall into the "Need" stage; "love" could be any of Stages 2 through 5, though mostly 2 and 3 ("Need" and "Satiation"); once she's at "Expectation" or "Burden" it's more falling out of love than it is falling into it.

Anyway, I'll note that one down for expansion into an article with more examples on reading what stage a girl is in (it's always kind of messy and you'll never have an exact read, even once you've had lots of relationships. Some women are just way more expressive than others... you mostly end up relying on gut intuition).

Chase

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Hey chase, I want to know why unattractive women gaze at me so bad while attractive ones and even decent ones don't. The attractive and decent girls gazing at me crazy rarely happens, but all of the girls I wouldn't sleep with even for a one night stand just gaze so hard at me like im a star. The are like bottom of the list girls, it brings my confidence down and makes me feels like these are the only women that like me. I've been training my fundamentals hard, but this is what I mostly get. What do I have to do to have attractive girls look at me like that?

I also want to know how do I remember everything I read? It's mostly for school because I kind of have a tight grasp on all of the articles, but when you have to take a 10 question quiz after you read 20 pages you really don't have a chance. I want to know how can I remember all that I read for these short quizzes. Thanks.

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Balla-

The girls who'll stare at you are usually lower than what you could get. If a pretty girl likes you, she won't usually stare at you, because that's far too obvious and gives up too much of her allure. If a girl's ugly though, she knows she hasn't got much of a shot with you, so giving you "The Eyes" in the hopes that you'll notice and say, "Eh, why not?" is as good a tactic as any. In effect, she's trading allure for a chance she might not otherwise have had; a trade a more attractive girl doesn't think she needs to make (she should be able to send you more subtle signals and have you pick up on them and capitalize on them without her giving power away).

Re: reading, there's no way I know of to remember EVERYTHING you read across 20 pages. The best technique is to learn how a given professor tests, ask him what material is most important to study for the quiz, and then focus on what are likely to be the key points you'll be quizzed on. It helps to pay close attention to what the big juicy facts seem to be; e.g., if you're taking an anthropology class and reading about the Inuit and it mentions an Inuit word for snow, the size of the canoes the Inuits use, and the main food sources of the Inuit, those are probably all things worth making mental note of; if it goes off on a long passage talking about an Inuit sitting in his canoe staring at the water thinking about life, you probably don't need to remember that bit. Focus on facts and figures, names, numbers, and stats; if it's multiple choice, all the easier (doesn't have to be perfectly memorized - you just have to be able to know it when you see it and not be fooled by similar-looking answers).

Chase

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Hey Chase,

A pattern that I’ve noticed and have been noticing lately with the more masculine, str/in, more accomplished women that I like to date is that they often dislike other girls and are critical of other girls to some degree.

Do you know what the reason for this? I was talking to a girl I’m dating (actively listening to her more not really debating her) and she was telling me how she doesn’t like other girls because they’re fake, and will say one thing to your face and smile to your face and talk shit behind your back.

These girls I’ve dated, many of them are more comfortable with guys and have more guy friends (generally average guys though who are lower-tier from the girls and don’t get to have the upper-tier lover position I get to enjoy).

I’ve heard before (haven’t read much or really verified this myself) that girls put on makeup to look good for other women (for showing higher status or something.. maybe you could elaborate here?) and many of these masculine girls I’ve dated put light makeup on or no makeup. They’ll have natural good looks but be pretty masculine and not have too many girlfriends or care to show status often with other girls (I smile now, writing this, at how amusingly true this is).

If I had to venture a guess why the independent, career/improvement oriented women would not like other girls as much I would guess that it’d be a similar reason that a guy who’s a seducer or an up-and-coming entrepreneur might not have as many regular guy friends: because as their value increases they find less and less people of the same sex who can match their value and be on an equal footing with them to share a mutually valuable relationship.

That would be my guess but there are probably other reasons here that I’m missing; curious to hear back about this.

-Gem

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Gem-

Yes, that's a big part of it - another one is that women get progressively cattier the more they notice other women start to pull away from them or become independent. Meanwhile, strong / upward trajectory women don't get along so well with one another because throw two of them in a room together and they both want to decide who'll do what. Women with strong personalities need women with softer personalities around whom they can call the shots for and lead the way with, although they'll often having falling outs with these girls too if THEY ever get catty.

My strong personality girlfriends end up having female friends they spend time with only occasionally, because the friends are too different from them (but that's what keeps them from getting too close and then crashing into each other and exploding). If they ever start spending too much time together, I know it's only a matter of time before the relationship goes nova.

Successful women constantly need to be on the lookout for subordinates status jockeying with them and trying to steal their men, as well. There's nothing lower ranking women like more than taking the men of higher ranking women - I've seen it over and over again with various couples, and I've had plenty of girlfriends' subordinate female friends flirt with and make passes at me, and watched my girlfriends fume and then scold them / me / blow up at either or both of us while I laugh about the whole thing. Sometimes falling outs between the two girls come not so long after this, always allegedly for some "other" reason, but probably because the higher ranking girl felt the lower ranking girl was getting too uppity.

It's just hard being a dominant female when every other woman around you is trying to take what you've got. You end up tiring of the drama and deciding that those other women aren't really providing value to you anyway, and cut them off, and you keep few female friends after that.

Chase

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Hi, Gem...I know you directed this at Chase but as a woman, I'd like to answer too, if you don't mind.

I can't speak for other women but what your girlfriend said is somewhat true. I'm not masculine at all and I wouldn't say my accomplishments in life have been great, but I have very little patience with certain women, the "fake" types your girlfriend talked about. I dislike catty behavior in general no matter who it comes from.

I think that women tend to get along with women more like themselves. I can hang with another female if she's chill and laid-back...not so much if she's the type to act bitchy all the time or get overly jealous/competitive with me. I don't have many female friends, not because I don't want any, but because it seems like there are very few genuine women these days.

As to the issue of makeup, it depends on the person. Speaking for myself, I don't wear makeup or anything for other women. I either wear it for myself or for men, on days where I feel sexy and want to add a bit of "oomph" to my looks.

I don't wear heavy makeup...just mascara, concealer, and lipstick or gloss. Sometimes I'll do eyeliner. But it's never with other women in mind. After all, I'm not interested in them sexually (most of the time). I'm into men and I want my husband and other quality men to notice me. Maybe it's not so much about showing higher status as it is about showing that you care about your looks and some women see that as competition.

I remember growing up, other girls would complain or talk trash when I wore makeup. I never understood why but now I think it's because they realized that by putting on makeup, I was trying to enhance my looks and this might attract male attention. Some insecure women don't like it when another woman does something to enhance her looks or femininity. They feel like you're trying to "one-up" them even if you aren't. If they're wearing flip-flops and another woman is wearing heels, particularly if she is more attractive and a cute guy is around, catty comments will be made...trust me.

I have a cousin who is obese but considered to have a pretty face and her breasts are quite large. She never wore makeup when we were younger and had tons of female friends, while I wore lipstick and had no female friends. Although she was pretty and had big boobs, she was fat so she didn't pose a threat to other girls. I was slim and wore makeup and that bothered some girls. So maybe that is a different way of looking at it, too.

I also think that for some women, just like for guys, interests have to match for friendships to work. Some women have more traditionally masculine pursuits and might not enjoy things like shopping and beauty products. Some women have more traditionally feminine hobbies and they can't relate to a woman who is "one of the guys".

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As to being a housewife, being a housewife like Donna Reed is a bit unrealistic in today's world because so much has changed. Most women, thanks to feminism, are expected to work and earn a living just like men are.

I am a housewife, which sometimes causes other women to sneer at me because they think I'm lazy or betraying feminism somehow. But you know what? My mother always had her job and independence outside the home, yet she also knew how to take care of a man's needs. She is an excellent cook...she is Jamaican and knowing how to cook is very important in our culture.

I think sometimes people view housewives as these beaten-down women who are lazy and stupid, without understanding that everyone's situation is different. I plan to further my education and earn a Master's degree at some point, maybe even a doctorate. I'm learning how to prepare delicious meals and I also try to keep myself in shape. My husband works hard and he knows that at the end of a long day, he can come home to a loving wife who does what she can to help, because we are a team and we take care of one another. That is equality...showing strength when I need to but at the same time, letting him be a man without trying to compete.

Independence is always a good thing for women...it's important for a woman to be able to take care of herself, earn her own money, etc. My husband encourages me to be more independent but he also appreciates my femininity. Some career women lose their femininity because they have to be "tough" at their jobs.

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"Men are also vastly more represented than women on both ends of the IQ scale, too." I read somewhere that this is only the case with kids around age 11-15 because girls mature earlier but that after that age pretty much all men have higher IQ than women. I don't remember where I heard this and I don't know if it's true.

Zanardi's picture

Let me guess: does this mean that, in the long term, the bottom half of the males will remain without a woman? Yikes, if it is so.

Jacky Maserati's picture

Hey Chase,

Thanks for the fascinating article. Could you provide the references you used for it? I'd like to study this subject in more depth so if you could steer me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it

Cheers,

Jacky

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