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10 Comments Posted by on 08/06/2012

1.  A female Wall Street banker writes a piece comparing men across various Wall Street occupations for their ability to provide quick and dirty flings for on-the-go banker chicks.  She prefers traders.  (h/t Business Insider)

2.  The U.S. women’s beach volleyball team reduced an Italian opponent to tears.  In other news, no men have been spotted crying during an Olympic beatdown.  Suck it up buttercup.

3.  Heartiste tweets a paper about cyclical patterns in social phenomena such as civil unrest and criminal behavior.  One particular scientist observes a 50 year cycle and predicts that 2020 will see a spike in violence.  ‘Cliodynamics’ as it’s called is viewed skeptically by scientists, but it’s always fun for the layman.

4.  A simple point is usually avoided in the discussion of whether men and women can be platonic friends.  In general, the more attractive the women the harder it will be for her to maintain platonic friendships with men.  Of course men and women can be friends, but the chances of this happening are greater when the woman is not blazingly attractive.

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10 Responses to Links

  1. Anonymous 08/06/2012 at 2:49 pm

    Did you learn nothing from Ryan Holiday? Why link to business insider?

  2. Days of Broken Arrows 08/06/2012 at 2:59 pm

    That “banker chick” post is unreadable. It takes a good premise and messes it up with plain old bad writing. Not exactly “The Happy Hooker.”

  3. C.R. 08/06/2012 at 3:02 pm

    touche. but i generally try to avoid the pieces there and at other sites that make spurious accusations about individuals and businesses. however, they do also provide linkage to stories that i and others who read this blog might find interesting. since dating and sexuality is a big topic here and since i’ve covered stories about people becoming outraged at men who compile excel spreadsheets tracking their dates, i figured a post about a woman who ranks wall street men is germane to this blog. the internet is an evil beast. everyone is competing for clicks which essentially means they are competing for individuals’ time. as a blogger (middleman) i stake my reputation on providing good and interesting links to the people who read this blog. i can’t say that i’m going to consistently adhere to holiday’s arguments, but for the time being they provide me with information on how the business works and how to look for the right types of stories to avoid. and it’s not about just avoiding business insider/gawker/drudge altogether; it’s about picking out what’s good and what’s bad on those sites.

  4. Jokah Macpherson 08/06/2012 at 3:17 pm

    A man can be platonic friends with a woman who is very attractive as long as there is a mitigating factor that makes her unavailable, such as her being married or being his sister. Of course, you’re not likely to be in a situation where you spend extensive time socializing alone with other men’s wives so this first one is rare in practice, but it could conceivably happen if you, say, work together or something.

  6. Dr. Grzlickson 08/06/2012 at 10:34 pm

    Just change your name to morehackthandrudgeandbreitbart.com with 1/1,000,000th the site hits, Weak Dick.

  7. C.R. 08/06/2012 at 10:41 pm

    like my actual name? i don’t think i can legally change my name to a url. they’d probably make me put http:// in front of it anyway.

  9. Kaz 08/07/2012 at 3:16 am

    @ve

    Haha oh wow, I totally agree.

  10. Trouble 08/07/2012 at 10:14 am

    On link #4, the second sentence. It should be womAn, not women.

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