Things women should know about men

This isn't the list of 50 things I would compile, but it's not bad place to start. Here are some of the particularly good bits of advice:

2. You Can’t Change Him

7. Don’t Ask Questions You Don’t Want To Know The Answers To

18. If You’ve Been Living Together For Longer Than Three Years, He’s Not Going To Marry You

25. You Should Always Take His Side

28. He Hates That Short Haircut

35. Don’t EVER Emasculate Him

47. Make Sure You Look Just As Good When You Go Out With Him As When You Go Out With The Girls

The primary point that was missing was this: Be Submissive, Not Challenging. The one vital thing women most often fail to understand about men is that men are made for conflict. When we are challenged, we instinctively want to vanquish and crush the opponent, no matter who it is. But bat your eyelashes and ask for something sweetly, and it makes us want to launch a thousand ships on your behalf.

How to get more women in tech

It's all about the semantics, apparently. This is a truly remarkable educational program, for varying degrees of remarkable:

With a three-step method, Harvey Mudd College in California quadrupled its female computer science majors. The experiment started in 2006 when Maria Klawe, a computer scientist and mathematician herself, was appointed college president. That year only 10% of Harvey Mudd’s CS majors were women. The department’s professors devised a plan.

They no longer wanted to weed out the weakest students during the first week of the semester. The new goal was to lure in female students and make sure they actually enjoyed their computer science initiation in the hopes of converting them to majors. This is what they did, in three steps.

1. Semantics count

They renamed the course previously called “Introduction to programming in Java” to “Creative approaches to problem solving in science and engineering using Python.”  Using words like “creative” and “problem solving” just sounded more approachable. Plus, as Klawe describes it, the coding language Python is more forgiving and practical.

As part of this first step, the professors divided the class into groups—Gold for those with no coding experience and Black, for those with some coding experience. Then they implemented Operation Eliminate the Macho Effect: guys who showed-off in class were taken aside in class and told, “You’re so passionate about the material and you’re so well prepared. I’d love to continue our conversations but let’s just do it one on one.”

Literally overnight, Harvey Mudd’s introductory CS course went from being the most despised required course to the absolute favorite, says Klawe.

Translation: a woman who couldn't hack either programming or mathematics herself despite majoring one of them came up with a program to retain the very weak students that traditional programs are specifically designed to weed out. This is great news from the college's perspective, as it can now graduate considerably more female STEM graduates.

The bad news, of course, is that virtually none of them will be employable, as the program has been softened and dumbed down to the point that both men and women who were capable of hacking the original one won't be prepared for post-graduation employment. But what does Maria Klawe or Harvey Mudd care? They got paid and they got their numbers up, which means they probably had a financial incentive to do so.

It would be educational to learn where these CompSci majors are in ten years. I anticipate that less than half the original 10 percent, or one-eighth of the currently inflated number, are still doing any programming.

Another gamma fail

What sort of response do you imagine this heartfelt message of support was likely to inspire from women. He's telling them that they're all beautiful, nay, "fucking beautiful", and they don't need to tart themselves up in ruthless competition with one another for the benefit of cruel, sexist alpha males. Just look at those puppy dog eyes, that sensitivity, that all-inclusive message of hope and acceptance. Surely this would meet with a shower of female approval, right?

Of course not. Male supplication always - ALWAYS - backfires. Now, a woman doesn't mind being told she's beautiful so long as it is coming from a man who a) obviously tells every woman that, or b) clearly has the ability to have sex with at least 10 other women the woman would consider to be a credible rival.

But to hear it from a supplicating, low-status boy whose merest intimation that he might have a shot with her is an insult? That, of course, sparks female outrage.

Turning Gamma to 11

This is a perfect portrayal of how Gammas get intersexual relations so terribly wrong. They have literal anti-Game. What this poor gamma male is trying to do is take his Nice Guy Game to the next level; being the nice guy hasn't gotten him anywhere, so now he's playing the Penitent Nice Guy in the hopes that self-flagellating supplication will achieve what mere supplication could not.

Don't be that guy. He would attract more women if he were to stop showering and spit in the face of every woman he met. He would do better to hold up a sign saying "I need femnism cuz after I Nock a bitch up, she going 2 tha clinic cuz I ain't paying 4 no kidz."

5 percent at 40

That's the statistical probability that every young woman should be told at 18:

What Jill doesn’t understand is that her fertility is not subject to whim or wishful thinking. Her chances of getting pregnant decline rapidly after 30. By age 40, less than 5 out of every 100 women will be successful at conception. When the Jills of this world decide they want children at 36 or 38 or 42, they enter a long, often fruitless quest for safe pregnancy and childbirth.

Are you in the top five percent of anything now? Then why do you think you will be then... and that's your chances of having just one child. Marry younger. Start sooner. You can always continue your career later.

As for men, make it a mantra. Five percent at forty. If a woman says she wants to have children "someday" , that should be the immediate response. Five percent at forty.

As the Hamster Spins

Dalrock observes the entirely predictable actions of a nominally Christian blogger who deserted her innocuous Delta husband, and, after only a few months of adulterous sex, is already lamenting her inability to fix Alpha males with her MVP:

I say I want a nice guy, but instead I’ve been picking the challenging ones. The ones that don’t love Jesus, or the ones that say they do but don’t mean it. The workaholics, the underachievers, the closeted gays, the ones that aren’t over their exes, or the ones that only text at midnight after a few drinks — I’m not making excuses for you anymore.

Which, of course, raises the obvious question: why were you making excuses for these gentlemen in the first place? What is often termed "Missionary Dating" is nothing more than a woman's desire to be placed in the missionary position by a man who is officially unsuitable but sexually desirable.

The irony is that non-Christian women who are less interested in inventing Scriptural excuses than they are in having good relationships have a better understanding of the importance of the basic concept of female submission. Lady Gaga, of all people says this: "I'm in charge all day long, the last thing I want to do is tell him what to do," she explained. "It's not good for relationships to tell men what to do."

Social change has consequences

This feigned shock at the public disregard for children is more than a little disingenuous after forty years of feminism:

One little girl was clutching her favourite toy while her younger sister was sucking her thumb – and both looked utterly lost and forlorn. In a bygone era, a concerned adult might have stopped to ask them where their mother was. But in a damning indictment of modern Britain, hundreds of busy people simply walked on by.

The girls stood for an hour on a Saturday morning in a busy shopping arcade looking for 'help', as part of a social experiment for television. Hidden cameras recorded Uma, seven, and Maya, five, who took it in turns to look lost. Astonishingly, over the whole hour only one person, a grandmother, took a moment to find out if there was a problem. All of the 616 other passers-by completely ignored the girls.

How can anyone living in a society that denigrates children and child-bearing, which regards pregnancy as an evil to be avoided, and attacks men who pay attention to children as probable pedophiles, be surprised that most adults are not inclined to lift a finger for a child for whom they bear no responsibility.