BANGALORE: Right at the outset I would like to set the record straight that I am not a sexist, I just state facts. Many men balk at the sight of the pseudo-intellectual women that they come across. They never hit on them and remain tongue-tied as to what to discuss with them. I understand the men’s predicament.
After all, these women have that ‘thinker’ kind of look and any kind of pick-up line would not work with them.
However, contrary to your expectations, they are the easiest ones to woo with a very high chance of them falling for you.
These women read a lot but what they read is mostly popular and fluffy. If my memory serves me right, it was Socrates, who said that if anything is popular then there is something wrong with it. They would read and re-read ‘Gone With The Wind’ but they would never touch ‘Master of St Petersburg’ to save their life.
Amazingly, much to the men’s delight, they don’t want to admit that they are unlettered.
They would ramble endlessly on the death of neoconservatism through the prism of Iraq but can never say the difference between Shia and Sunni.
Apart from buying two cows in Farmville, these women would define their political inclination on Facebook as right liberal and would have never heard of Huffington Post. Hence, instead of reading a lot, reading the right matter is of paramount importance.
It doesn’t matter what John Rawls has to say about justice as long as you have read Adam Kirsch’s seminal article on the subject in a recent City Journal issue. Read ‘Sight and Sound’ to know about the most obscure movie that is a mustwatch and a perfect date movie.
My recommendation would be Catherine Breillat’s brilliant film called ‘Brief Crossing’.
After watching the movie any self-respecting woman would side with the female protagonist and you the male would just have to go with the flow and the discussion would reach its logical conclusion - you having sex like there’s no tomorrow.
I wonder if Matt Berninger was talking about feminism when he sang the following lyrics in The National’s ‘Mistaken for Strangers’.
“Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves”.
Julie Delpy put it tellingly in ‘Before Sunrise’ about feminism, “You know, I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so that they could like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me.” Thankfully, women whom I have known hold Germaine Greer and Simone de Beauvoir in higher regard and I can never thank them enough for having made feminism a virtue.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
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