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a fair amount of cop wisdom is essentially handed-down stuff that's not actually true.

The reasoning behind that one, though, I believe. It's because the perceived wisdom is that liars are shifty and never look you in the eye, so people who are actively trying to tell lies will always look you right in the eye, thus overcompensating for what is baloney to begin with.

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elmo you are KILLING it itt

kenan, interestingly I was just reading a book that claims that people don't do ANY one thing when they're lying. Also that human beings, even ones in law enforcement and related pursuits, are TERRIBLE at telling when someone is lying.

Apparently some people are naturally good at telling when someone is lying, and some aren't, and no one can explain why. (How many of those people are cops is beyond me.) It's like the way dogs can smell cancer. I'll look for a link.

xposts and since liars who have heard this new piece of wisdom will make sure *not* to meet your gaze, cops can be assured that the non-eye-lookers are, after all and as originally suspected, the liars. Until the liars catch up to that one - then the paradigm will shift once more.

my response to all of these blogs is basically "valerie solanas OTM"

aha but if you believe these gentleman rules, women are infallible lie detectors and can find anything out, so you should never lie to them. they can smell lies like dogs smell cancer.

"... she'll love it"

This increasingly reminds me of the "I'm one of the few men in the city with nothing wrong with him" answer machine message guy.

aha but if you believe these gentleman rules, women are infallible lie detectors and can find anything out

The overriding theme of most of these little advices is that women are a mysterious "other," instead of just other people.

Not to state too much of the obvious or anything.

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Where does "absolutely intolerable" fit into that scale, I wonder?

see ok the thing here is that i have met and had actual conversations w/women who would say that a lot of this advice is otm (in as much as this is how they think men really ~should~ behave)

The reasoning behind that one, though, I believe. It's because the perceived wisdom is that liars are shifty and never look you in the eye, so people who are actively trying to tell lies will always look you right in the eye, thus overcompensating for what is baloney to begin with.

dude no. "look you in the eye" nonsense is just infantile. you know who else won't look you in the eye? lots of people in whose cultural context holding somebody's gaze codes as aggressive. and people who were raised by people who come from that cultural context. seriously dude. it means nothing whatsoever if somebody isn't looking you in the eye, and if you take somebody meeting your gaze as a sign of anything other than "this person is meeting my gaze," you are being silly.

see ok the thing here is that i have met and had actual conversations w/women who would say that a lot of this advice is otm (in as much as this is how they think men really ~should~ behave)

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really? which ones?

nobody wants to be picked up and twirled, right? i just can't fathom that.

some do!! my friend rusty is lol hueg and would routinely do this (tho tbf in the context of dancing...he was into swing dancing) and some chicks went nuts for it. and i've had several lady friends tell me that they like it when men make them feel small, or whatever. not saying they're right, or that i'd want to date them (too much work), but not all of this is idle male fantasy. there are women that buy into old-fashioned gender roles/codes and shit. i wouldn't think this to be controversial!!

aerosmith, you're making my exact point. It means nothing whatsoever if somebody isn't looking you in the eye. But people who are lying to the police often think that it DOES mean something, because they heard it somewhere.

And criminals are often not up on the latest articles about this kind of thing from the New Yorker.

dude what are you even talking about

okay if any women reading this like to be picked up and twirled/like to swing dance i didn't mean to suggest there's anything wrong with that! i just dgi

I don't understand what people are not understanding about what I am saying.

i'll be honest kenan i'm not really reading it that closely

Cops should pick people up and twirl them and if they don't like it then I think they must surely be criminals.

"Twirl the witch!!!"

can someone redo this with quotes from terminator and blade runner?

fwiw a lot of the women i've met that buy into this stuff were chicks i knew in high school---i mean, my only point is that it codes as "old-fashioned" and there are a lot of old-fashioned ppl still out there!!

"Where are you going?"
"Jim's apartment."

― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP),

Seriously burst out laughing like mad when I read this.

feel pretty comfortable judging anyone who buys into this bullshit

can someone redo this with quotes from terminator and blade runner?

I was thinking Conan...

Crush You Enemies
See Them Flee Before You
Hear the Lamentations of their Women
etc

feel pretty comfortable judging anyone who buys into this bullshit

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ditto! it's not just dudes, tho!

Thees is a good thread. It mek me laugh. It mek me cry. But it also mek me verah confuse.

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Ok how about andrew wk lyrics?
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give her a bandaid when she gets a booboo

i've had several lady friends tell me that they like it when men make them feel small, or whatever

oh sure, i've heard this too and kinda understand the sentiment, and as a big guy who gives awesome hugs I've heard this too. but there are also women out there who do not like to be lifted off the ground because they do not like to be made to feel small or overpowered and just maybe if they've been sexually assaulted such show of manly strength might be a potential trigger. so i mean unless you know they like it then it is definitely Not Okay, gentlemen, no matter who tells you "she'll love it."

some of these rules are all "respect the lady at all times" while others are suggestions for things that are totally disrespectful in their presumption of what that lady wants / likes. taking a swing at your lady with a pillow might seem fun and spontaneous and silly to you -- pillowfight! squeeee -- but it's also a good way to get cursed out by a lady who doesn't like feeling assaulted!

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yeah, it's totally offensive. all these rules should be "work through your own insecurities then get over yourself" imo. then maybe you can have a relationship that isn't full of bullshit. so many of these for dudes are like "she has daddy issues? then be her daddy!" sex can be so much more than that. "advice" like this objectifies men as much as it objectifies women.

so i mean unless you know they like it then it is definitely Not Okay, gentlemen, no matter who tells you "she'll love it."

yeah, ironically this flavor of "respect" seems to be outside the consideration of this blog

respect your woman, give her an allowance for dresses that aren't too tight or too loose every week, she'll love it.

i love the tight/loose woman/lady dichotomy. for when you're too refined to just come out and say "virgin/whore."

feel pretty comfortable judging anyone who buys into this bullshit

<3 u max

all these rules should be "work through your own insecurities then get over yourself" imo. then maybe you can have a relationship that isn't full of bullshit.

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Just don't forget that being attractive is the motivation for your behaviors.

Is parallel construction also unattractive?