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The thing Christian Rudder fails to point out explicitly is how man can put this information into action. Knowing that women with tight distribution get messaged less men should start messaging cute girls with tight distributions to improve their chances.

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Why should he have to point out anything at all about how men can put it into action? Presumably close to half the people who use OKC are women looking to attract men•, so the message to them ought to be fine.

•modulo gays and lesbians, of course.

Actually, as a male who uses OKC, I found it interesting to simply note "the curse of being cute." My takeaway is that there are some "conventionally cute" women who you find attractive, and who you also assume receive a lot of attention. It turns out, many others assume the same, and so end up not sending a message.

Putting this into action, then, means to take more initiative messaging someone who you assume must be receiving a lot of attention.

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