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November 30, 2005
"Your skills with the ladies need some work," which is news to my girlfriend
How good is your game with the women? I clicked a banner ad to find out: I'm "below average," scoring a 58 of 100. "Your skills with the ladies need some work!" the website claims.
So I asked the girlfriend to take the test. I figured that since she's both female and attractive, she would know what "works" for men to pick-up attractive females. Were the test's scoring mechanism not broken when she took the test, I think she would have done even worse than I did. When we read through the answer key, her general reaction was, "I wouldn't do any of these" or "that's ridiculous."
The problem with the test's answers is that the advice seems to assume that all women--or at least all beautiful women--are the same. Sure, there are some things that men do that are universally ineffective, from the pathetic ("what's your sign?") to the abusive (stalking her). But why not tell men to listen to her, figure out how she wants to be courted, and do it? Maybe it's because there's no recipe for this and hence it's no way of selling cheesy, overpriced advice books.
(Try this link for the test, but don't blame me if it won't score, and beware that the test owner will spam you.)
Posted by adrianjo at November 30, 2005 01:04 PM