The Tao of Texting and Dating

05.03.2013

Hi Susan, Can you write a post on the “art of texting and dating” ? I find that you have to be so careful and plan everything so you don’t sound too needy or available. Thanks so much! Love your blog … just found it today and have been reading it for 2 hours! Heather [...]

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Girl Game Spring Challenge: Week 5

05.01.2013

Join the forum discussion on this postby Jackie and SayWhaat   Hey guys and girls! We’re more than halfway through with the Girl Game Challenge. Hopefully everyone’s gotten much more comfortable with the challenges. We’ve had some pretty interesting results so far, and we’re looking forward to hearing all your Field Reports! After all this [...]

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The Care and Keeping of Potential Husbands

04.30.2013

The number of college educated women ages 35-44 who have married has remained steady at 88% for the last twenty years, but they’re getting married three years later, on average. Both sexes contribute to this, according to Andrew J. Cherlin writing in the New York Times: It has become the capstone experience of personal life [...]

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

04.29.2013

Join the forum discussion on this postSome fascinating results have been reported in the Girl Game Spring Challenge. I’ve been amazed by the power of a friendly remark to strike a spark between two people who would otherwise never have met. The other day SayWhaat shared a story that a lot of us found very [...]

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Girl Game Spring Challenge: Week 4

04.25.2013

Join the forum discussion on this postby Jackie and SayWhaat   It’s time for Week 4 of the Girl Game Challenge!  The last couple of weeks have been a bit challenging. In Week 2, we had you commit regularly to a new activity. In Week 3, the challenge was to practice feminine energy and go [...]

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Individual Traits Trump Sex Differences in Determining Relationship Success

04.23.2013

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times concluded that “categorical” sex differences are based on an “indefensible model of human behavior.” In A Tangle of the Sexes, researchers Bobbi Carothers and Harry Reis claim that sex differences do not explain behavior choices, which should be ascribed to “various personal qualities.” They studied a [...]

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The Lofty Aspirations of Millennial Women

04.18.2013

While reading a recent article about the tradeoff between pursuing a “creative” career and earning real money, this jumped out at me:  [Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett] and her collaborators at the Center for Talent Innovation studied the motivations of men and women at work and found that while men’s primary incentives are relatively simple—money and [...]

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Girl Game Spring Challenge: Week 3

04.17.2013

Join the forum discussion on this postby Jackie and SayWhaat   Hey guys, it’s time for Week 3 of the Spring Girl Game Challenge! If you’re feeling like last week’s challenge was tough, don’t worry – you are far from alone. Week 2’s challenge was all about getting you out of your comfort zone, so [...]

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A Yale Senior Worth Emulating

04.16.2013

Hi Susan, Just wanted to say I’ve been a HUS reader for a long time. I’m a senior at Yale and it’s honestly the strangest thing to see a weird minor facet of our sexual culture come up in so many places on the internet. But I wanted to express that not too many girls [...]

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A Tale of Two Pities

04.15.2013

Today’s post is a case study in sexual economics at college. Two students at the same college, their experiences could not be more different. Chloe, Yale Senior Chloe describes herself as a SWUG: Senior Washed Up Girl. Chloe’s classmate and fellow SWUG explains this dubious marker of identity:  To be a SWUG is to embrace the [...]

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