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Every Dating Advice Book, Summarized

One of my guilty pleasures is reading dating advice books. They’re anthropologically fascinating. I have a weird dating life, so I like learning about what normal people are up to.

Over the course of reading hundreds of the most popular dating advice books, I’ve noticed that they all give the same advice. And I don’t think that advice is, like, bad? Indeed, I believe a lot of the readers benefit, which is why they keep reading the books.

But people I know are unlikely to read normal dating advice books, because dating advice books insist on dressing up the reasonable dating advice in feminine and masculine energy,1 or men’s natural desire to chase women, or women’s natural preference for strong masculine men, or something confused about the sociobiology of wolves. So I thought there was a hole in the discourse for someone to say all the stuff that every dating advice book has in common, without the gender essentialism.

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Every Dating Advice Book, Summarized

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