So many of these silly articles would be unnecessary if people just used their brains and their empathy. People with two X chromosomes are not some sort of biz

So many of these silly articles would be unnecessary if people just used their brains and their empathy. People with two X chromosomes are not some sort of bizarre alien for you to "figure out how they work". They're people, like you. They have desires -- probably pretty similar to yours in most respects. Use your empathy, and think from their perspective... just like you would for anyone else in the world. Yet people constantly go into relationships thinking only of themselves. Rants are everywhere about what a person "wants in a woman/man" or "wants in a relationship" where the entire concept that the other side of the relationship has "desires" or "wants" is ignored. Relationships fail largely because people think only about themselves, not others. A lot of "geeks" seem to want to generalize everything about women and make up "rules" for dealing with them, as if somehow all people are all the same. They constantly come up with "scientific" explanations for "why women are different", ignoring the fact that the variation among people of a single gender is vastly larger than the variation between genders. Saying "all women want X" is much akin to saying "all black people want fried chicken", except a whole lot more politically correct (somehow). ... have you ever tried thinking about them and treating them as people with brains? It works pretty well, you know.