There’s plenty of bad advice out there — but the books, oh the books. Buyer beware, because there’s only three types of The Dating Book, and you’re going to be reading one of them.
1. Retrograde Advice
This type of advice is, of course, exemplified by The Rules, but could just as easily have been handed down by a particularly unfortunate Grandma. It generally centers around “Sex, withholding of” but also contains dictates like “wear pink,” “play games” and “don’t reveal your true nature.” This category sometimes gets contributions from patronizing men (see: Harvey, Steve) whose “real talk” advice is suspiciously like that of said grandma, without the excuse of being one. Oh, and “acting like a French woman” is its own subset.
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