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Comment by GrantMoyer | Hacker News Reader

The comments on women's bodies are not relevant to the narrative, and they alienate readers (women and men). It's bad writing.

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Sticking too much to the narrative makes a boring read. I don't think they were crass enough to alienate anyone in their right mind. But these days there is always a risk of such things offending someone, so I actually appreciate the fact that the author just spoke their mind _without_ worrying about alienating some demographic..

There is honesty in it, and that is commendable.

It alienates me, because I cannot relate to it. To me, it reads like the author is going around, running some sort of flowchart for every woman they briefly interact with, like:

  [Are they hot?] -No> <Ignore>
         |
        Yes
         v
  [Are they wearing a ring?] -Yes> <Ignore>
         |
         No
         v
         …

I don't even know what that last step would be. It's not going to be sex. The woman is at work and the two don't even know each other.

Maybe that's not what the author is thinking. I don't know, because I can't understand what the author is thinking. I'm alienated.

Interesting! Can you expand your flow chart to show the accepted way (according to you) to end up having sex?

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