The Great Sexual Divide

There's no common language whatsoever between men and women. And there's no dictionnary out there. No translator that could do the work. We are, and will always be, misunderstood. Both men and women. There's no way to bridge the gap, no miracle solution to this eternal conundrum. From the time we lived in caves men have been pondering the question of WTF women want. And no one ever found an answer. Sadly. Oddly. Or maybe luckily.

Because, let's be honest, do we really want to know what in hell women want? Do we really want to go inside their heads and try to figure out what the fuzz is all about? No, the puzzle is better with its pieces wildly apart, because what we might find in there could very well get us nuts. Literally. While "female insecurity [is] the gift that keeps on giving,” (Tucker Max), men ignorance seems to be the bone of the new age, with men dating more women than ever before. The unexpected colleterals, however, are considerable with more women ending up single, feeling the urge to pump up their boops with silicon the way princess Barby does.

Nonetheless, in an infinite effort to find a framework men and women could work on, American's have divised a pretty suffocating idea of courtship: the dating path. It's some sort of raw patchwork of rules and procedures on how to ask a woman out. Here's an exhaustive (and non chronological) list of precepts:

* The guy needs to call for a date - there's no such thing as a goddamn equal footing
* He should give another call within three days, but not before 48 hours have past, if he has any interest for another date
* He should pick her up - which seriously sucks with the increasing gas prices
* He will bring her to (a) a movie (cheap, insecure guy), (b) a bar (if you just can't find a conversation and might want to get a back-up in case your date backfires), or (c) a restaurant (for more confident brainiacs)
* He's supposed to know where to bring the girl - and he's supposed to know WTF he's supposed to do with the next 40 years of his life
* He's supposed to know WTF she wants
* Dude, you got to pick up the fuckin' check on the first date

As Kay S. Hymowitz nicely stated, as "the old dating and courting regime fell, it left a cultural vacuum with no rules for taming or shaming the boors, jerks, and assholes."