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It's hard not to notice that 1) she's a young, attractive, and seemingly friendly female, 2) she only tells of approaching guys, and 3) she doesn't seem to be a
by dctoedt 16y ago
It's hard not to notice that 1) she's a young, attractive, and seemingly friendly female, 2) she only tells of approaching guys, and 3) she doesn't seem to be asking for anything outlandish or threatening. Small wonder she's had a hard time getting rejected.
- sounddust 16y agoYou're going to make those types of generalizations based on a blog that just started and has two posts?
- antareus 16y agoHey, it's tough being an upper-class white male, y'know? ;)
- giardini 16y agoYes, and now she has a lunch date with a young, wealthy and attractive male who probably has few opportunities to meet an appropriate partner and yet who is perfectly staged to find a mate. So seems that things are working precisely as they should.
- zackattack 16y agoisn't levchin dating/engaged/married to Nellie Minkova?
- sausagefeet 16y agoI agree with giardini, this seems to be the point. A lot of people are simply too shy to go after what they want, reframing these interactions where 'failure' is 'success' is enormously helpful for those people as it turns the interaction into win win. You've either got a date with someone or you're one step farther along in Rejection Therapy. I think for the people who benefit from Rejection Therapy it's a mistake to think they are celebrating narcissism.
- cyen 16y agoMax Levchin's married (and, judging by his Quora questions of late, also has a kid.) The lunch is purely professional.
- cyen 16y agoDuly noted. :) I'll be focusing on being rejected by women in the future.
- joe_the_user 16y agoUh, the first person mentioned in the blog is the woman at the jeans store. And she did ask to drive someone's forklift.
- Mz 16y agoYou know, I don't go around asking people for things, but I have noticed that men generally have better boundaries than women, not worse, and usually are better at setting limits. I get offered a lot of rides home (because I live without a car). Women routinely bend over backwards to offer to make permanent arrangements to shuttle me back and forth to work and ask me things like "when do you normally leave for work?" or "when do you typically get off work?" Men don't make offers like that. In fact, men will say "I can drop you a mile down the road at the next light" and thus only take me part way home, whereas no woman has ever made me an offer like that. Women typically feel compelled to drop me at my doorstep. In contrast, there are two different men who, when they pick me up, frequently drop me at the entrance to my apartment complex. I'm fine with that. There is only one woman who has started doing that and she is much more apologetic. (And, yes, I am a woman -- not young but people routinely misread my age as roughly five years younger than I really am. As for attractive, er, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" -- some folks think 'yes' others clearly think 'no'.)