It doesn’t take a lot of effort to treat someone well and enjoy them and their company if you want to.

Memories are better than money, and love is better than anything. Another great article, Ian.

By the way, if we feel like getting you something else, are you a boy or a girl?

Btw can we get emails when there is a reply?

For the more obviously frustrated and hostile males commenting though, especially the ones that incorrectly guessed my gender or seem obsessed with discussing my genitals for some reason, I might suggest reading Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, by Susan Faludi. If a $9.95, 55 page eBook-slash-marketing piece by Marc Rudov is all you can handle, you may find its 672 pages daunting, but on the bright side, it clocks in at about $0.0088 per page versus Rudov’s $0.18. And it honestly is an interesting view on how American men of the last few decades “got the shaft”, it’s just not presented by someone who has a big dog in the fight; i.e.: their manliness.

And honestly, you’re not going to fix a problem in our society by running around screaming at others. Real change always starts with ones’ own behavior, not trying to manipulate others.

So here’s a really simple solution: DON’T BUY HER NOTHIN’.
And be okay with that.
And if SHE isn’t, find someone who is.

Common gentlemen, what are you thinking? You mostly say you want her to put out, if this is important to you than put out too! This is a trade off. A real relationship is based on more than getting laid you douches.

Whether or not somebody can “get laid” is completely irrelevant to their arguments. The fact that this was the tack you chose only serves to highlight your own inability to form a counter-argument.

The fact is, Rudov does have a point. We live in a world in which women are free to embrace or drop their “gender role” as the situation suits, but I, as a man, am still expected to live by mine. If I’m not supposed to expect a woman to “cook and clean” why am I still expected to plan and pay for everything?