Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-03-17
Books mentioned on 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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Make Your Move
Discussed“based on what i have seen from your advice in make your move it seems to me that it's mostly um competitive edges”
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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The Rules
The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider is a dating advice guide from the 1990s that instructs women on how to secure commitment by practicing restraint, acting mysteriously, and playing hard to get.
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
Own book 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”



