Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-03-17
Chris Williamson & Jon Birger: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #448
Are Women In Charge Of The Dating Market? - Jon Birger - #448
Jon Birger is an award-winning magazine writer, a contributor to Fortune, a dating expert and an author. Typically men are the sexual protagonists.
Jon Birger discussed The End of Men by Hannah Rosin, and criticized The Rules by Ellen Fein and others, Ignore the Guy, Get the Guy: The Art of No Contact by Leslie Braswell, and Why Men Love Bitches by Sherry Argov. Chris Williamson discussed Make Your Move by Jon Birger.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The End of Men
Discussed“and if you read hannah rosen's book the end of men she has a whole section all about rising criminality rates among women”
Where to get it
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Make Your Move
Discussed“okay so getting on to make your move what are the mistakes that men make that you're trying to get women to avoid making”
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The Rules
Critiqued“because as you know pretty much every popular dating book that's been written over the past 30 years from the rules to ignore the guy get the guy to why men love [ __ ] that they all revolve around a very complicated version of playing hard to get”
Where to get it
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Ignore the Guy, Get the Guy: The Art of No Contact
Critiqued“because as you know pretty much every popular dating book that's been written over the past 30 years from the rules to ignore the guy get the guy to why men love [ __ ] that they all revolve around a very complicated version of playing hard to get”
Where to get it
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Why Men Love Bitches
Critiqued“because as you know pretty much every popular dating book that's been written over the past 30 years from the rules to ignore the guy get the guy to why men love [ __ ] that they all revolve around a very complicated version of playing hard to get”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Make Your Move
“but i mean i a big theme of both datanomics and my new book make your move is encouraging people to get past this and to be open-minded about dating people”