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The best parenthetical statement I read today
(The fictional 18th century heroine, Moll Flanders, recognized that a high self-regard can be dangerous, arguing that women who believe themselves beautiful are easier to seduce: “If a young woman once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for she believes herself charming enough to captivate him, ’tis natural to expect the effects of it.”)
Here is the link.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on October 1, 2008 at 01:12 PM in Education | Permalink
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Someone is very unhappy about the handling of the WaMu collapse.
Posted by: ogmb at Oct 1, 2008 2:56:22 PM
...though the man needs to be more creative than simply telling her that which she already knows. she won't be seduced by him being wooed by her beauty, but by her captivating insight/intelligence/etc.
Posted by: shawn at Oct 1, 2008 2:58:59 PM
Ironically, this is in direct contradiction to Roissy, and a lot of theory behind game: women that think themselves high quality will only date high quality men.
Hence, if you're a low quality guy, neg to bring down the bitch shield.
On the other hand, if she thinks herself to be of high quality, then she might have a higher demand for the "high quality lifestyle" and be more vulnerable to the seductions of...high quality men.
Whereas, if she thinks she is low quality, and a high quality guy hits on her, she is going to think he only wants sex.
Sorry, bit of a tangent there :P
Posted by: Robert Olson at Oct 1, 2008 3:20:01 PM
Mr. Olson's advice goes double at 2am w/ a "10" and at 10pm with a "2" :).
Posted by: Mr. Beefy at Oct 1, 2008 3:43:00 PM
Interesting take on confidence...
Posted by: Clay Atlas at Oct 2, 2008 2:26:56 AM
