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🗓️ 29 June 2023
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In 1995 a bestselling book proposed a simple dating strategy for women: Lose weight, wear bright colors and become a completely different person for the rest of your life.
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0:00.0 | I'm rock I've got that's so many zingers bouncing around in my mind. Do you want to do a couple do you want to try |
0:05.0 | Fectives and I |
0:07.0 | My favorite absolute dumbest one was something like |
0:13.4 | The only thing I know about rules Michael is that I'm always breaking them |
0:19.1 | Terrible |
0:21.1 | I was I was ready to do it though. I was |
0:24.9 | Alright give us give us the real one let's let's go ahead. Okay go ahead |
0:29.8 | Peter Michael what do you know about a book called The Rules |
0:35.0 | Finally a set of arbitrary social guidelines for women |
0:39.6 | So the full title of this book is The Rules time tested secrets for capturing the heart of Mr. Wright |
1:03.2 | The book came out in 1995 but it was a word of mouth hit and only started showing up on the bestseller list in 1996 |
1:12.8 | It eventually sold two million copies which is objectively like a lot of copies but also |
1:19.1 | Compared to the secret which sold 30 million or a matter for Mars which sold 15 million yeah, it's relatively small |
1:26.0 | Why follow a bunch of rules when you can just manifest a man |
1:32.2 | It's written by Sherry Schneider and Ellen fine who are essentially just two random women |
1:40.2 | They are 36 and 38 years old when it is published. I was not able to find any background information |
1:47.2 | Specifically on these people all I could find is that they're they're both just freelance journalists and then they wrote this book and |
1:55.0 | Immediately started doing like seminars and you could pay them |
1:59.8 | $45 for a 15-minute consultation |
2:03.6 | Which honestly seems cheap for this time like something that's like it almost feels like it's not a grift |
2:09.0 | They're just doing it because they really want women to get laid since this book came out |
2:14.3 | They've essentially spent the rest of their lives just doing like spin-offs and extensions |
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