Was going to crosspost this total facepalm of a thread, but I remembered we have new super-important rules to keep fake internet point counterfeiting down, for the sake of the children. So I'll just post my little bit.

Basically, this kid's asking women for advice on asking out a girl he doesn't know without creeping her out.

My response:

Asking women for dating advice. That's like asking trout for fishing tips.

Predictably, a woman chimes in with razor sharp wit and keen understanding of metaphor.

Yes, because we hate when men find a way to catch/kill us and then feed us to their family in a light butter lemon sauce.

cue loud whooshing sound

Dammit. I should have known better than to use an analogy with any depth. By focusing on the "fish don't want to be caught" part, she completely missed the point I was trying to make. For my own benefit, I decided to elaborate.

No, its because your domain knowledge in this case is limited to being the target. You have zero perspective of what a man needs to do to be successful with women from HIS point of view. Trout may know all about the mind of fish, but they have never gone fishing in their life. They might share which lure is the shiniest and note the wriggliest type of worms, but they can't help you with baiting a hook and casting it into the water. It's simply out of their domain of knowledge. No matter how deeply the trout know about themselves and their own tendencies, the fishermen are going to know far more about how to catch them successfully than the fish ever will.

Not perfect, but it raises an interesting point: our perspective as men is the major barrier preventing women from giving us useful dating advice.

Thoughts?