@ Michael - get a clue! The ones who can’t have/do teach? Sure there are crappy teachers but there are also people having/doing who are ALSO doing a terrible job if this current economy is any indication. This cliched phrase is an insult to all the GOOD teachers out there since NOT being a teacher is NO indication that you are good at your job (unless your job is swindling thousands out of millions) or are contributing anything to society. Have some respect for teachers and before you look down on them, why don’t YOU try teaching whatever it is you are apparently fabulous at and see how good you are. Good teachers are invaluable and they are working hard for little pay & no glamour - what do YOU do that makes you so great?

The ones who can Have/DO
The ones who cant teach

You dont have Boyfriends
and you teach

while i thoroughly enjoy your societal and tactical musings, i have sworn off dating FBF’s for the duration. i find that they are entirely too self-centered, and i’ve realized that i no longer have the patience to hand-hold and ego-stroke. i’m not a hugely high-maintenance creature myself, i mean, come on!

i’ve abandonned FBF’s for men who can actually hold a hammer, saw a log and fix my bicycle. i’ve lost interest in these socially underdeveloped specimens who’ve been coddled by their mothers and spoiled by their fathers for much too long. this kid-glove-handling has produced a disturbing generation of man-boys, who’s engrained sentiment of entitlement taints every relationship they have.

i’m over it! give me a real man!

plus, it looks like this ‘great recession’ has paved the way for a ‘great defection’ of sorts:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55A02Q20090611?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

best of luck with your pursuit of the perfect FBF! i’m after the lumberjacks..

xo

an ex-DABA

The real problem with her is her attitude: “I’m smart, sweet, attractive, and fun.” No one who actually is any of these things feels the need to announce it. I have met so many women, especially of the Type A* variety, who wonder why they can’t get a man even though they’re the whole package. The answer is always the same, they’re self-centered egomaniacal wretches. They think that just because they aren’t fat and have a fancy degree that they deserve the world and that they can get it by logically convincing the world that it’s owed to them.

There’s only one way to cure her of this: Go pick some charity to volunteer at for 5 hours a week. Then tell literally no one that you do it. Swear to never put it on a resume or bring it up in conversation. Not with boys, not with friends, not with family. Right now you probably spend 10 times more effort and energy trying to get kudos, sympathy, whatever for improving yourself than you actually spend working on improving yourself. You’d rather spend your time convincing people to like you than working on being more likable.

I know, I’m making a lot of assumptions based on such a short letter, but I also know a lot of women for whom all of this is true. So, if it doesn’t apply to you, it probably will for one of the readers. Cheers!

*Avoid anyone who describes themselves as Type A, they use the label as a justification for lacking a personality deprived, socially retarded.