I’m sure Jen Kistenmacher had good intentions in her commentary about dating, but the ideas were slightly misguided.

She says guys complain about there being no available women, and those that are available are snobs. Right away this is turned upon the guys.

The day before I could be overheard making similar complaints. At the same time, I was planning on asking out a classmate who had caught my eye, but then I realized many women on campus think in the same manner Miss Kistenmacher do.

This in mind though I would love to know, just how it is my fault, or even then, the fault of any guy making this complaint, that the women on campus are taken or snobs?

I fail to find any semblance of an internal link between these two phenomenon.

Next her apparent attack on romantic guys.

As a “tip” for men she says romance isn’t just for “wimps” asserting that guys are either macho and are only after sex, or wimps and romantic.

Even the word wimp isn’t complementary and is quite a snobbish attitude of women on campus, that guys who aren’t big are somehow inferior.

A good idea she does have is that guys shouldn’t talk about old flames. However, then she ignores that women do the same thing nearly everyday.

Not a day goes by on campus I don’t hear women chattering in class, about what jerks men are, or about their wonderful relationships are, as if everyone else must be reminded of their own situations.

On top of that she asserts any man making this mistake will be “sleeping alone that night” along with that guys shouldn’t “expect action on the first date” as if all guys on campus only wanted sex.

News flash: not all guys want sex. We are the ones that don’t live in frat houses. It seems from the other “tips” that women should likewise take these ideas down, such as not flirting and trying to see their significant other every day.

Even better advice would be for women to get liberated and ask out a guy rather then waiting for them. After all, if men are the problem women should take control for once instead of just “settling” for a guy.

To finish, Kistenmacher asserts guys who heed this advice and stop being jerks will have better luck. Perhaps she should listen to guys more often and realize THEY aren’t the ones with the problem, other then being shy.

Blaine Moyle

Junior

English