![]() ![]() The 1992 classic Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus was written for a gender-neutral audience, but it rests on the premise that men and women are so dissimilar that they might as well have been born 74 million miles away from one another. Traditional dating manuals tell straight women how to convince men to commit to them ( The Rules He’s Just Not That Into You Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man) or instruct straight men how to trick women to have sex with them ( The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed The Professional Bachelor: How to Exploit Her Inner Psycho), but few guidebooks address men and women at once. In charting this universal experience, Ansari has created something legitimately new. The scenario he refers to as “Tanya’s silencing of 2012” unfolds in smartphones around the world every weekend, vexing texters of all genders. Tanya ghosted on Ansari, but he is not alone. ![]()
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