Anytime a woman is giving a dating advice for men, that advice only works for men who don't need it.

When a woman say "i like nerds", an unattractive nerd who never got any female attention his whole life will get his hope up thinking that he is the target audience. So we as men, take the unattractive nerd to a corner and tell him "bro, you are not that guy, she isn't talking about you". We are not setting him up for failure to be an entitled nerdy guy who think that a woman should like him just because he is a nerd. We explain to him that there is more to that and being a nerd isn't ENOUGH.

Women's advice only works if they are already attracted to you. They don't give good advice on how to generate attraction in the first place. Their advice is how they wish the men they date would act not traits that actually get dates.

Women never say "be attractive" when talking about what they look for in men. So it goes like this:

Men experience attraction to a wider range of women than women do to men. This causes men to think women are the same.

Because of this, mid women can and do get attention much more easily than mid men, and they only need one set of rules for how to talk to men. This means that the rules women have for mid men and attractive men are night-and-day different. It also means that nearly all women will assume that all men have the same experience - women think men can just get attention the same way they do.

Therefore, we have a situation where mid men have a hard time getting any attention at all, and they are always asking "how do I get attention?"

Women then respond with jarring blindness: "here's what you have to do to get girls to like you" followed by instructions that only work for attractive men. The attractive men do not need instructions. They're doing fine.

So more or less any time any woman is giving advice on how to get women, the only men listening are the ones for whom the advice will not work.

When a woman says "just be confident," and does NOT say "just be attractive and confident," unattractive men will go out and try to be confident then women will call them creeps or call them out for shooting above their league.