June 6, 2002
BLOGGERS AND BLOG READERS ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE than the average, so they may not need advice on how to flirt. But just in case you’re an outlier, there it is.
BLOGGERS AND BLOG READERS ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE than the average, so they may not need advice on how to flirt. But just in case you’re an outlier, there it is.
Robin Roberts says:
Is it my imagination or does Glenn enable comments for the sexual posts more often than the others? (grin)
June 6, 2002, 3:57 pmGlenn Reynolds says:
Sex, guns, and wireless networking. The big three.
June 6, 2002, 4:09 pmKat says:
I’m getting the same impression, Robin. It is an interesting article, but no more so than many non-sexual ones he’s linked.
Then again, maybe he’s just noticed that we all like to comment on this type of article. ;)
June 6, 2002, 4:11 pmDean Peters says:
Article with an agenda ?
I quote the last paragraph:Despite the disapproval of 17th-century Puritans, Victorian moralists and their modern equivalents in both the ‘moral majority’ and ‘political correctness’ camps, these basic flirting instincts persist, and the human species survives.
Two things.
I sure I hope this study wasn’t funded with public money.
I would truly hope the writer of the article/report would do some research regarding the Puritans and sex. Contrary to the hype, they had sex, they enjoyed sex … within the boundaries of marriage.
Consider this, and I’m stealing this from a great thinker like Os Guinness, the Puritans were not great industrialists, nor great agrarians … yet they survived. How? They were good thinkers, and obviously were able to have babies.
June 6, 2002, 4:27 pmAndy says:
Well I like the sex … articles. :) This one is espcially useful because I am quite the outlier on this issue.
June 6, 2002, 4:27 pmRobin Roberts says:
You got me convinced Glenn!
June 6, 2002, 4:32 pmGlenn Reynolds says:
I know what sells! Nobody’s standing in line to comment on the Commerce Clause, alas.
June 6, 2002, 4:46 pmLuke Pingel says:
Commerce clause, did you say? No one comments because it’s (currently, and unfortunately) such a joke. The current jurisprudence is not tethered to any reality. All lawyers know this (whether they’ll admit it or not) and the public simply isn’t informed on the subject.
Nowhere, that I can think of at least, does the current jurisprudence look like anything what a rational person with some common sense would be able to glean (sp?) from the Constitution’s reference to the Feds regulating commerce BETWEEN the states.
The Commerce Clause, and its horrible mal-interpretation, is probably the single biggest power grab currently being employed by any branch of government. You want the government out of your life, don’t worry (so much) about the FBI or whatever the “Patriot Act” says, worry about the power the government claims to have via the CC.
So there you go.
June 6, 2002, 4:59 pmMerrijane says:
The best quote is this: “Another problem is that in some rather Puritanical cultures, such as Britain and North America, flirting has acquired a bad name.”
What country is this person from, anyway??
June 6, 2002, 5:00 pmJohn "Akatsukami" Braue says:
To expand on Merrijane’s comment, I would suggest that if flirting has gotten a bad name in North America, it is not due so much to a hypothesized Puritan foundation, but because people tend to mistake flirting as an invitation to rip off one’s clothes and fling oneself on the flirter.
June 6, 2002, 5:12 pmDawn says:
Glenn,
I have made numerous attempts to flirt with you, can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? I mean a put up a smirky smile just for you and nothing, not a word, not a comment.
[deep sigh] I guess I better start posing with guns to get sly professor’s attention.
June 6, 2002, 5:13 pmJosh Chafetz says:
To everyone above asking “What country is this person from, anyway?”, the answer is right at the top of the page. It comes from the Social Issues Research Centre in my fair city of Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
And trust me, if you’ve ever met British undergrads you know they need all the help they can get in the social interaction department.
June 6, 2002, 5:17 pmRobin Roberts says:
Here’s the trick Dawn http://www.gunvideo.com/pgroup_details.php?pgroupid=1239
June 6, 2002, 5:19 pmArthur Stock says:
Here’s what instapundit readers are looking for:
http://www.autistics.org/skills/pages/askherabout.html
June 6, 2002, 5:22 pmCGHill says:
I just want to know how attractive a blogger has to be to offset me.
June 6, 2002, 5:24 pmMichael Levy says:
Are you sure bloggers are more attractive? I think there’s a selection bias, ugly bloggers wouldn’t post their pictures.
(full disclosure: no picture on my blog)
Dawn: If you really want the Professor’s attention, pose with something that involves a gun-law loophole, like a FAB-10
June 6, 2002, 5:51 pmBruce Baugh says:
Interesting piece, but I don’t think it displaces Michael Kelly’s “The Lost Art of Seduction” – http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/seduction.htm – in my affections. (Kelly is, for context, the guy who wrote the “French deploy existentialists to Afghanistan” post that made the rounds without his name on it.)
June 6, 2002, 5:56 pmGlenn Reynolds says:
Dawn: Flirt? With me? I’m a married man, and hence above such things. . .
June 6, 2002, 6:09 pmKat says:
Flirting has been and always will be one of my favorite hobbies. I’ve seen some fantastic flirts in my time, some of the best are in the SCA. I’ve also seen some real sorry attempts, mostly at gaming conventions like Origins and Gen Con. Flirting is a game, it has rules, and if you play it correctly, everyone leaves feeling good about themselves. Keep in mind that “flirting” and “hitting on” are 2 very different things, so when John says people mistake flirting for an invitation, they don’t know how to play the game.
June 6, 2002, 6:21 pmGlenn Reynolds says:
Say, I just noticed that this post has 19 comments, and the one just above it on DeeDee Ramone has none. Robin: I guess I know what interests InstaPundit readers!
June 6, 2002, 6:30 pmRobin Roberts says:
That’s one interpretation, Glenn. Another has me hogging all the credit! (grin)
June 6, 2002, 6:34 pmDawn says:
Professor Glenn, as a female in 2002, it is my job to express my individuality, emboldened as a freedom loving person, in a country where freedom reigns supreme. In my case, that may consist of blantant displays of flirtation, with married, older, sexy, professor types who digs guns and blog with reckless abandon like the apolcalypse is upon us. I am a married woman, happily almost always, but should that confine me to not take notice of another’s inherent sexiness.
Are you denying me my rights sir?
June 6, 2002, 7:13 pmBruce Baugh says:
Oh, come off it, Dawn. Surely you are not engaging in the crypto-communistic demi-fascist tactic of attempting to impose your personal morality on Prof. Reynolds in the guise of cloying cant about liberation. It is our esteemed host’s absolute right as owner of his self, his property, and his turn-off-comments code to flirt with whomever he chooses and none else! This is a matter of his independence and dignity, you brazen hussy.
Hope this helps.
June 6, 2002, 8:03 pmHoward Veit says:
Flirting has three purposes.
1. To get laid tonight
2. To get laid by tomorrow at the latest
3, To make your real girl friend jealous.
I have no idea why women flirt unless they want to get laid. So what’s the long article about?
June 6, 2002, 9:40 pmHoward Veit says:
Flirting has three purposes.
1. To get laid tonight
2. To get laid by tomorrow at the latest
3, To make your real girl friend jealous.
I have no idea why women flirt unless they want to get laid. So what’s the long article about?
June 6, 2002, 9:40 pmWarren Cheney says:
What’s the long article about?
Well, it’s nothing more than an attempt to describe some of the variables involved in flirting. OK, so maybe it was more of an attempt to force-feed someone so much information on the theory and practice of flirting that any attempt at acting on the information leads to complete and utter brain freeze.
Or, maybe, just maybe, it was a dismal attempt to dissuade someone out there from asking, “Um, wow, um, er, could I see your tits?” After all, information is power, and one really big bit of information is that breast viewing as an opening gambit is unlikely to gain further positive results. Unless you look really hot.
(*ducking*)
I dunno about anyone else, but I kept on thinking that said article was somewhat on the same level as my Subaru wagon’s owner’s manual (at least that was what kept on popping into my mind).
I’m betting that the flirtation-challenged would probably learn a hell of a lot more by reading the umpteen or so comments above, though.
(Hell, they’re having a lot more fun, er…flirting. Don’t tell them they’re doing it, though. It’ll ruin the mood.)
June 6, 2002, 10:23 pmshell says:
I’m afraid I’m going to need proof that bloggers and blog groupies are more attractive than the average population.
Strictly in the name of research, of course.
June 6, 2002, 10:38 pmBill Bacon says:
The Commerce Clause doesn’t mention a *thing* about sex, by the way…..
More’s the pity.
June 6, 2002, 10:49 pmvin says:
Omigod! If this endless list doesn’t put the community of human beings out of the procreation – or even the recreation – business, I don’t know what will.
Can you imagine? Here you are, you’ve just made eye contact with someone, you’ve advanced to your “marks” (can you guess my profession?), lose your place and blurt out the unthinkable: “Can I see your (fill in the most humiliating thing you can imagine yourself saying which will absolutely kill any chance of romance)”?
As a widower with a strong desire to reconnect with the the fairer sex, and as one who had for many years occupied on a regular basis that 18″ or less territory, I simply cannot make heads nor tails of any signal, verbal, non-verbal or esp.
How do teens do it? Hormones, I guess.
June 7, 2002, 12:55 amJames says:
Great article. My question to you all i:, how do Muslim Middle Easterners flirt or do they flirt? I would find it difficult with restrictive clothing and sex segregation.
June 7, 2002, 1:42 pmDawn says:
If anyone wants to know the secret art to flirting, just let me know. I will help out any way I can. I am magnanimous like that.
June 7, 2002, 4:45 pmBruce Baugh says:
Dawn is too modest to mention that her dating tips are banned in twenty-seven states of the US, two Canadian provinces, and throughout the European Union. Some say that they induce cancer, but I think that’s just jealousy.
June 8, 2002, 6:38 amDawn says:
Bruce, maybe I can give you private consultation, brazen hussies have a lot to offer
June 8, 2002, 11:56 am