Target Women: Dating Advice

When I am having trouble with romance, the first place I head is the bookstore. For every love problem, there is a solution if you can just find the right dating advice book. Is he just not that into you? Is he way too into you? Is he standing outside your door right now despite the restraining order? There's a book for you.

Ladies, we need to get married, stat, and who better to help us than a variety of marginal celebrities, weirdos and authors looking to make a quick buck? So instead of weeping, get reading, and watch how bold and generalized theories will march you right down the aisle.

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Comments

[euripedes923]

She's funnier than Conan. So why does he have The Tonight Show and she's stuck on current?

[BureauCat]

Sarah nails it again. I remember one time (when I was "between administrations" so to speak) when I was in a failing relationship. I headed to the bookstore. Then I left the bookstore with two books: "Holding on to Romance" and "Letting Go". Back at home, I realized that I needed to go back to the bookstore and find a book to tell me which book to study. True story.

By the way -- Guys just want to have fun, but at some point a guy realizes that "It doesn't get any better than this" and commits. My own criteria for a woman: (1) Smart (because a smart woman is never boring); (2) nice (because if she's smarter than me, then she'd better be nice); and (3) not ugly (so shoot me).

[EmanuelWazar]

Funny lady this one.

[Atra]

SARAH MARRY ME!! I believe it comes down to sometimes luck, heck I know someone that tripped a girl up on the sidewalk, then less then a year later they were married, and still are. Not saying you should deliberately trip desired person over...anyway.

[lolyla]

Great vlog. The spaghetti comment was a trip. It made me think of Uma Thurman's character's one and only joke she told on the unused pilot episode for which she screen tested in the movie Pulp Fiction. The one with the punchline: ketchup (pun for catch up).

But you're funnier and you (presumably) write your own material. So, Sarah, you do indeed rock.

[SonofLiberty1]

Some weeks ago, actually more like months ago, MSNBC ran a story about a woman looking for Mr. Right. She figured out a plan....to date as many guys as she could...heck of a lot of first dates, some seconds etc...

Nothing physical...not even a kiss...

Took a while but she found someone who really had the goals she was looking for and that's the one she wants to keep...

Hormones, when not controlled, tend to get in the way.

[SparkyAdams]

And you just assume that it will work out for her over the long run?

[imfedup]

Spaghetti sauce! I L'd OL.

[boredwell]

Ah, truer words have never been spoken including the ones at the altar! If dating is a game and you lose, be a good sport. If you win, write a book.

[sysmgr1345]

We have the most single parents, the most people living alone, the biggest problem with porn, the largest dating industry, etc, in the free world. You can't go meet a nice girl in church without being indoctrinized into the Republican party. Bring back the good ole days...please.

[SwamiRinpoche]

That was soooo funny!

[Pseudonym]

Sarah Haskins = Hilarious

[cadbury]

I'm so tired of people like terramartom using untestable (and therefore questionable) evolutionary psychological "theory" as an excuse for bad behavior!

[SparkyAdams]

Huh? WTF?

[enhancedvibes]

co-sign -- men just cant help themselves dont you know? ugh lol

[peterg76]

Both men and women only want advice that reinforces their preconceptions.

[terramartom]

I should add that we want sex from females that we desire, and not just any females.

[terramartom]

Nature designed males to want sex from females.
We will do what you ask, as long as sex comes eventually.
That is our first goal when we see or meet any female.
After sex comes personality.
Without personality even sex with a beauty gets old very fast.
If the female we meet changes physically or personally too much than we males will look elsewhere given a choice.
Our goal is not marriage. It is to get laid!
That is why most marriages fail.
Women your goal is security, financially, for yourself and your children whatever that means to you.
Both male and female are playing the same game using different rules, having different goals

[SG Phillips]

Ah, generalities. So useful.

Yet among INDIVIDUAL MALES, some are driven by sexual drive more than others. Some men aren't particularly into sex, not with men, not with women, not with animals, not with objects...yep, that's absolutely so.

Among heterosexual males, there actually are some seeking more in a partner than "getting laid."
In fact, some women discover that they have married guys who really would rather play World of WarCraft (and God help them!) So let's be careful when we generalize, shall we?

[SonofLiberty1]

I think in fact, most guys are like that..it's just the few bad boys that give the rest of us a bad name.

[Atra]

HEY!! I play WOW...no wonder I'm still single.

[larmarch5]

That is why more and more women choose divorce or choose to be single. We don't need a husband to house us, to feed us, to impregnate us, to protect us or to harass us.

[DemoClunkers]

I would agree with that sentiment. And it goes for guys too. Almost half of marriages end in divorce, and those that don't look boring as hell. I see no reason whatsoever to get married if I can just date and then move on when it gets ugly or boring, but taking every precaution against a possible child support situation. Frankly, marriage is no longer necessary. Women have their own careers, or the State to look after them and the kids. The Patriarchy is therefore a thing of the past. We men have become essentially unnecessary, and vice versa. I refuse to get all wound up about not being married. It's a relic of the past.

[techjockey]

That pathetic theory has been soundly rebuked.

[brooklyncitizen]

actually we need men like a fish needs a bycicle...it's no longer financial , it's no longer sexual, so you better bring something a little more interesting than that- like a partnership.

[o4tuna]

Partnership? How pathetically bourgeois of you.

[SG Phillips]

Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle? OMG I haven't heard that since the 1970s! How retro.

Of course, my answer to you is the same as my answer has always been:
Speak for yourself. I'm happily hetero, and happily married, and subscribe to a life choice (marriage) that has been creating satisfying families since the dawn of time. My marriage happens to be to a man. Works well for me, and my daughter seems to appreciate having a father quite a bit. If I were married to a woman, I would hope my kids would be just as fond of both their parents as my kid is of us :-)

But hey. To each his or her own!

Just wanted to put my viewpoint out there, because I don't think one has to put down half of the human species to establish oneself as a "feminist." I really thought that attitude became unfashionable at approximately the same time as disco music.

[stevefromkelso]

I would never date a woman who looks to a man for financial stability. And I desire a lady more interesting than someone who quotes the 1973 womans-lib handbook.

[SparkyAdams]

I haven't heard that snarky bit of misandry in decades.

[gemzenith]

your probably under 40.When men start to age then they start looking for a nurse with a purse.They have high blood pressure,d­iabetes,he­art attacks,st­rokes.then they need the little blue pill(under a doctor's care of course)to attempt sex.So by that time shes already had her fill of caregiving and runs off with the younger man who wants no strings sex.Whoopppeee!