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Never Ask A Woman What She “Brings to the Table”
“What do you bring to the table?”
If you ask a woman this question on a first date, I can almost guarantee that there will not be a second.
Women hate this question because we’ve been told, time and time again, that we are the prize.
Basically — we are the table.
So why should we be concerned with what we bring to it?
Well, I can think of a few reasons…
I admit, being asked this question outright by a man would be off-putting.
It translates to something like, “convince me that you have value.”
True value doesn’t have to be explained or justified. Nobody wants to have to explicitly “prove their worth.”
However, this expectation is frequently placed on men, and nobody bats an eye.
A woman is well within her right to ask a guy, “why should I give you a chance?” and people seem to think this is a perfectly valid question.
We’ve been socialized to view women as the prize and men as the pursuers. Men are used to jumping through hoops in order to prove their…
