Hey all, I thought it might be a good idea for a “one stop shop” of all the bullshit dating advice women get that is centered around men’s wants and desires. I see it so often on Reddit, but please add any “advice” from friends, family, online sources, the general cultural milieu etc. and WHY this advice is totally shit.

The big Reddit “winner” is that women should pursue men, and be sexually forward while doing so, and that men love it but they are “just shy”. Before FDS I would feel really conflicted, because of course I’m a feminist who believes in equality so ON PAPER this seems fair. But I knew in reality every time I tried this, I’d get rejected or strung along because they made it clear I wasn’t their dream girl, or the worst of all, a lukewarm ex husband that just went along with what I wanted but never really loved me. And I’m even a so-called “geek girl” that these guys swear up and down they would LOVE to be pursed by. My current husband is literally the only man who 100% pursued me and made it crystal clear, I never had to ask where I stood.

If I countered any of these Reddit dudes with my life experience they’d just accuse me of wanting all the power, and say men get strung along TOO and how shy and nervous they were and how dare women make them take the risk. They’d use feminism against me too, or say I was just picking the wrong men or whatever. Thank sweet baby Jesus for this sub, it confirmed what I had always known.

So what shit have people tried to pass off as advice to you?!