Real Live College Girl: How to Lose A Girl in 1 Minute (The Top 10 Dating Deal-Breakers)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Tina Fey, Dealbreaker, "That's a dealbreaker, ladies!" Okay, girls, we all know that we can sometimes be confusing toward guys – we break up with them, reject them or stand them up for what seems like no reason. But we know that there is a method to our madness. Chances are, even if we don’t tell a guy why we won’t go out with him, deep down, we have a reason.
 
Lucky for those boys whom we’ve left behind, we’ve compiled the top 10 reasons girls will dump guys or not even go out with them in the first place.
So girls, pass this on to all the guys you know … And boys, read on! Now, this doesn’t mean that if none of these things apply to a guy, he’ll be a bona fide Casanova, but at least he’s on the right track…!
 
10. Tan way too much. Orange is a fruit, not a skin color. I have one friend who likes orange guys – read: ONE friend. Orange may work on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, but without the gel-spiked hair and washboard abs, the orange is just way too much on its own (outside of its natural habitat, of course). Besides the fact that it looks ridiculous, tanning is also bad for your health. And girls like healthy boys.

'guidos','pretty' boys, boys in pool, group of guys
Let them do the GTL-ing

9. Be rude to staff members. Girls like a guy who can stand up for himself and his girlfriend when someone is treating them badly. But “bad treatment” does not include a waiter at a restaurant not filling up your water glass quickly enough or a waitress not refilling your tortilla chips. As always, the Golden Rule applies here: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” If you were a waiter, would you want some girl’s boyfriend to be rude to you? Yeah, I didn’t think so. And, in a girl’s mind, if you’re rude to waiters, there’s a big chance you’ll be rude to her someday.

Comments

My boyfriend and I both play D&D, and I can tell you that we are definitely not obsessed. It's more of an excuse to hang out with our other friends in "real life" - in contrast to WoW where you're hanging out with your "friends" online. Hanging out more with people you've never met online than your friends in person is a definite deal breaker.

Gaming is ok, so long as a) you don't avoid me in order to play them and b) you don't avoid going out in order to play them (or you play them with other people while they are in the room interacting with you).

Personally, I feel that some of these reasons aren't truly deal breakers.

Speaking as a girl gamer, especially #7. While it's true sometimes gaming can take over the brain, it's not really the game that's the issue. The issue is to whether or not the person has the common courtesy to separate themselves from the game during "couple time." To me, gaming headsets are definitely a turn-on.

Sites like this that guide girls to being all alike will eventually come out with an article about what to do when a guy doesn't see how you are different from every other girl. I laugh.

Hmm, I feel like some of these are really shallow reasons for not dating a guy and not all girls won't date a guy because of these. The only ones I personally really agree with are 3 and 7. There should be some more serious reasons on here, like maybe you've heard he has a history of not respecting women (i.e. physical violence or trash talking after a break up), or if you watch him in public and see that he tends to laugh at others' opinions, the way others dress, etc.

I couldn't agree more about your last point. If he's super judgmental about others(opinions, clothes, money, whatever) then what does he think about you?? Just like if he's saying these things behind their backs then you may be wondering what he's saying behind yours?

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